I watched this semi-documentary on BBC television, under the title "Around the World by Zeppelin."
The movie certainly casts a spell, using vintage footage not just to chart the circumnavigation flight of the Graf Zeppelin, but to transport the viewer back to the world of 1929...the way people dressed, the politics that were on everyone's minds, and the status of women. (Of all the journalists and others on the flight, there is only one woman, who is there to report "the woman's point of view" for the Hearst chain of newspapers.)
However, viewers should be aware that some parts of the semi-documentary are fictitious. The airship's tail fin did not rip during the round-the-world flight, but during a previous transatlantic flight in October 1928, and the ship did not have to land on water to do repairs. Also, the shots of German soldiers wearing Nazi armbands are probably anachronistic (from a later date than 1929). So the filmmakers have taken a few liberties to cast their spell.
The movie certainly casts a spell, using vintage footage not just to chart the circumnavigation flight of the Graf Zeppelin, but to transport the viewer back to the world of 1929...the way people dressed, the politics that were on everyone's minds, and the status of women. (Of all the journalists and others on the flight, there is only one woman, who is there to report "the woman's point of view" for the Hearst chain of newspapers.)
However, viewers should be aware that some parts of the semi-documentary are fictitious. The airship's tail fin did not rip during the round-the-world flight, but during a previous transatlantic flight in October 1928, and the ship did not have to land on water to do repairs. Also, the shots of German soldiers wearing Nazi armbands are probably anachronistic (from a later date than 1929). So the filmmakers have taken a few liberties to cast their spell.