Laputa: Castle in the Sky, for one. There are a couple of bad-guy military zeppelins bristling with weapons.
Also the Vincent Price movie Master of the World, loosely based on the Jules Verne tale, and the more recent WWI aviation adventure Flyboys.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow opens with a scene on the Hindenberg III and it is shown docking (if that’s the right word) at the Empire State Building.
As mentioned in the OP.
I was going to mention this one. This is a really good movie with some great ariel work that isn’t done any more.
S M Stirling is apparently fond of zeppelins. I’ve found his latest Great Alternate History Series a bit ponderous, but his shorter works would make fine films. If Hollywood could become interested in SF worlds not already done to death. (I’m wiling to give Avatar points for originality, at least.) Or if Syfy could become interested in making less crappy movies. For example, his “Lords of Creation” series is set in an “alternate” solar system:
How to make a long trip across those jungles of Venus–wherein saber tooth cats, dinos & beautiful warrior princesses may be found? Why, in a dirigible! Might, perchance, a dirigible encounter a Pteranodon or two? Of course. Not exactly Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls, but close.
No pehistoric beasts in his The Peshawar Lancers–but there’s plenty of swashbuckling derring-do in this ripping yarn. And much of it happens aboard a great airship!
I don’t know. Disney did some great work with Ariel.
Part of The Golden Compass takes place aboard an airship, doesn’t it? I don’t remember the movie very well, so it’s possible I’m confusing it with the book.
Not a Zeppelin – Robur’s ship the Albatross was an aeronef (to use Verne’s own coinage, a heavier-than-air ship held up by a battery of helicopter-like vertical propellors. Always ahead of his time, Robur built his ship out of composites, which were known in Verne’s time and used for railroad wheels(!). The Terrible, in Verne’s second Robur Book, was completely different.
If you’re looking for literary works (as Bridget Burke is), try Philip Jose Farmer’s original Riverworld series, especially The Dark Design.
Hell’s Angels was great fun just because of the stereotypical German crew on the zeppelin - they need to gain altitude to escape the British fighters, so the “excess” guys salute the Kaiser and jump.
Dirigible - cheesy early Frank Capra, but good Antarctic-exploration scenes.
Here Comes the Navy has some good scenes of the USS Macon.
Master of the World - not technically a zeppelin, but close enough.
This Man’s Navy - a WW2 flagwaver with Wallace Beery and blimps (hard to tell which is which sometimes).
The Stolen Airship - a Czech film of a Verne story.
And Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island, one of Rex the Wonder Horse’s finest performances.
They are probably one of the most dangerous modes of transportation devised. The Akron, Macon, Shenandoah, R-101, Hindenberg almost all the Zeppelins in WW1. They seem to be cursed, I would only fly on the Graf.
Southland Tales has a very posh event set aboard a new zeppelin-ish airship (except I think it’s kept aloft by other means and has huge reception rooms, etc. instead of airbags)
For books, The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is about as good as they come!
Baron von Bomburst had a small blimp in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, too.
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Curse you realityChuck! I’ll get you yet, if it’s the last thing I do!
Just remembered another one : The red tent about the failed Nobile expedition of 1928.
Jeez, how in the hell did I completely miss an entire sentence in a six sentence post?
I know the OP talked about films. But there are great Zeppelin tales out there just awaiting film treatment.
Syfy is working on yet another version of Riverworld. If it becomes a series, we might see those lighter than air craft On The River. But I’m not getting my hopes up…
IMHO one of the main reasons for the serial airship disasters was that they came to be viewed as symbols of national pride. Many of them were forced into situations their captains or designers balked at, and paid the price. Particularly this is the case with the R-101 and all of the American airships (Akron, Macon, Shenandoah).
Perhaps only politicians would choose a giant gasbag as the symbol of their nation.
No. Somebody didn’t have to say it.:eek:
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On the serious side, heavier-than-air-aircraft had short range in the twenties.
What’s cool is that the USN toyed with the idea of making it’s airships into air-carriers. 
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/ac-usn22/z-types/zrs5-m.htm
In Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937), Charlie makes the crossing in the Hindenburg. In later re-releases, the swastikas were expunged from each individual frame of film. (The scenes at the actual Olympics include audience members giving the Nazi salute to the parading athletes.)