Titles read: '"THE CITY OF TERROR" - First pictures from Londonderry taken at great risk.'
Soldiers in street in Londonderry, Northern Ireland (shot is blurred - decomposing?).
Intertitle reads: 'The AFTERMATH - Shelled and gutted buildings in Dublin have been condemned and are now being pulled down.' (Eire, Republic of Ireland, Southern Ireland).
Ruins in Dublin; bombed / burned buildings. Part of building collapses - falling from 3rd or 4th floor. More of collapsing buildings. Actually; workers are pulling them down so they won't collapse on someone later - looking closer; one can see ropes.
Michael Collins (man with moustache on platform) making speech after the Treaty had been signed; he adopted a moustache just before the Treaty talks in 1921. Some of crowd in BG. Shots of some of the Republicans posing by Dublin Castle (?). CU Michael Collins smiling at camera and looking down, modestly. Another speaker (TP O'Connor?) of Irish Republican Army.
Sinn Fein. Royal Irish Constabulary (Black & Tans); Special Ulster Constabulary. Destruction. Irish nationalism. Ireland. Riots and Revolutions.
WW2 accounted for over 60m deaths and innumerable lives shattered. Pathé cameras took to land, sea and air to record the bloodshed. Here are the 10 bloodiest battles that were caught on film.
The great politician and orator Winston Churchill left behind a sea of humourous quips and discerning quotes. We remember some of his finest epigrams and witty ripostes.
The death penalty has been carried out in almost all societies and although these images from WWI and WWII are unsettling, they still provide a raw account of events from a certain time.
The images taken from inside Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its Liberation show us what it was like; it tells us what happened and forces us to remember.
10 telling images selected from British Pathé's extensive WWI footage. 'The war to end all wars' was a war without parallel: over 70 million military personnel were involved and over 17 million people died.
British Pathé filmed the 20th Century's biggest names, some of them before they even became famous. Click through and guess who these soon-to-be celebrities were when first captured by our cameras.
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.Take a look at some of the more unusual but ingenious ideas that people have had to beat the traffic.
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