ALAMY ARCHIVES
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With historically-important stock content sourced from iconic archives and specialist collectors, you get unrivalled choice to uncover decisive moments in history. Discover visuals for your encyclopaedias, biographies, TV documentaries, biopic films and museum exhibitions.
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Our extensive footage collection includes world events, major inventions, and a rich mix of political and social history throughout the 20th Century to the present day. Explore these specially curated collections for a taster of archive clips available for licensing.
Space Race and Moon Landing
The battle for adventure into space between the USSR and USA, with footage from the first crewed moon landing with Apollo 11 in 1969.
Cold War
Clips from the 1940s to the early 1990s showing the ideological conflict and geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and United States and their allies.
Olympics Archive
Capturing athletes' victory and defeat and the race for record breaking moments in world sport throughout the 20th Century.
1950s teenagers
A fascinating look into the representation of teenagers and their lives in an era of societal change, when being of 'teen age' became recognised as its own separate demographic for the first time.
World War II
A selection of footage from Hitler addressing the League of Nations in 1938, to the armed forces on the ground and the airforce in the sky, to the Victory Celebrations attended by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1945.
20th Century Communism
Discover how Communist power became one of the most dominant types of socialism in the world in the 20th Century, through the leaders and believers of Chairman Mao, Joseph Stalin and Fidel Castro.
Transport through time
Discover how the technology of transport transformed society and our daily lives - from the horse and cart to the Japanese bullet train.
Shopping through the ages
A look at how the essential daily shop for housewives became mass consumerism with the rapid introduction of large supermarkets and shopping malls. Combined with the societal change of more women in the workplace throughout the last century, this changed our our shopping habits for good.
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Discover the stories behind our archive collections
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