The film explores the background and build-up to this final flight to disaster. Using dramatic reconstruction, archive footage and exclusive interviews with leading historians and engineering experts, the special delves into the political and scientific events that led up to the catastrophe.
John Shrapnel
as Himself (Narrator)
Malcolm Tierney
as Dr. Hugo Eckener
Gerard Monaco
as Herbert Morrison
Simon Lowe
as Joseph Späh
Michael Praed
as Nelson Morris
Thorston Manderlay
as Chefsteward Kubis
Kamil Krawczykowski
as Werner Franz
John Edmondson
as Rudolph Sauter
Mark McGann
as Commander Rosendahl
Piotr Grabowski
as Helmut Lau
