3500 hours of filmed history

Over 90,000 film items and 12 million stills fully digitized and viewable online

Original 35mm film available for hi-def

Digital delivery

British Pathe recorded every aspect of global culture and news for the cinema. With their unique combination of information and entertainment, British Pathe's documentaries, newsreels, serials and films changed the way the world saw itself forever.

British Pathe is a rich resource for creative, media and education professionals worldwide, providing an expansive catalogue of footage and photography covering the historic moments, famous and infamous personalities, lifestyles and cultures that defined the 20th century.

With its unparalleled collection of historical events and vast catalogue of changing social activity, British Pathe encompasses one of the world's most prodigious, fascinating and extensive documents of the modern age. In films on everything from fashion to warfare and sport to travel, British Pathe with its emblematic "crowing rooster" is the definitive source for the 20th century in moving images, pictures and sound.