Zeppelin (film)

Zeppelin (film)

Zeppelin is a 1971 British World War I action-drama film of a fictitious German attempt to raid Great Britain in a giant Zeppelin and steal the Magna Carta from its hiding place in one of Scotland's castles. The film stars Michael York, Elke Sommer and Anton Diffring, and was directed by Etienne Perrier.

The airship seen in the film is a 40-foot (12 m) model based on the plans of the R33 class of British Rigid Airship, which was itself based on the German LZ76 captured intact in September 1916. The air combat scenes were filmed using Lynn Garrison's collection of World War I replica aircraft, originally assembled for 20th Century Fox's The Blue Max.