A thread for posting history related videos. Start with Victory at Sea, from 1952.

Episode One [I can post the whole series if anyone wants to see it]

If it's split up on YouTube it's best to make a playlist there first and then link to the first clip. Otherwise you eat up space here.

Note to self: Housekeeping long overdue here ...

Wouldn't dream of doing that, Nordmann. They are easy enough to find anyway

A short contemporary documentary about the Battle of Midway;

First part of a two part documentary about;

Four interpretations of Anne Boleyn's execution;

Suffragette Emily Davison is knocked down by the King's horse on Derby Day, 4th June 1913, and dies four days later.

12.10am on the 5th June 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy is shot in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles and dies just over 26 hours later;

Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee from 1897;

That footage from 1897 is amazing Trike, and so different from what we have come to expect these days.

Apart from the, expected, silence the camera is stationary. I kept expecting it to follow the carriages. The horses and riders on parade were also a lot more casual than today, none of that stiffness and precision. With chatting between the riders and the horses weren't nearly so well trained or behaved either.

There were a few versions of it ID, I chose the sepia footage because it seemed clearer.

This might interest you as well, a compilation of very early photographs;

10th June 1918,the Austro-Hungarian dreadnaught Szent Istvan is torpedoed and sunk by Italian MTBs

Operation Cerberus;

Triceratops,

watched the german newsreel and did some quick research about Operation Cerberus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Dash

But in the German news reel:

https://reshistorica.forumotion.com/t212-historical-youtubes

they spoke about a "regierungswechsel" (a change in cabinet?). Don't find it in the English wikipedia. Perhaps was it not true and only German propaganda?

I have no time to do further research.But if you want to discuss it further here or in a new thread I am your man.

Kind regards and with esteem,

Paul.

Hello Paul,

I think the cabinet reshuffle mentioned in the newsreel had more to do with the loss of Singapore rather than the Channel Dash. Churchill's position as PM was not as secure as is generally believed,especially in February 1942, and there were rivals in the shape of Anthony Eden and Stafford Cripps.

There is a bit more about it in this link;

http://www.historytoday.com/david-day/churchill-and-his-war-rivals

Thank you very much for this explanation Triceratops.

Kind regards and with esteem,

Paul.

Anyone else remember this from 17th June 1994, OJ Simpson's low speed car chase;

Some old footage from the 1890s



and some stills of Oslo in about 1890,taken by a hidden camera;

22nd June 1941; the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union;

Triceratops,

found these six videos also interesting. Saw them yesterday on Arte 7+ in two tomes.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdpupa_39-40-la-guerre-des-images-1_webcam

Kind regards and with esteem,

Paul.

PaulRyckier wrote:

Triceratops,

found these six videos also interesting. Saw them yesterday on Arte 7+ in two tomes.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdpupa_39-40-la-guerre-des-images-1_webcam

Kind regards and with esteem,

Paul.

Triceratops,

forgot that perhaps only a few of the contributors understand French. Excuses again to all the readers of this message.

To compensate a little bit my error I post some photographs from the US Civil War:

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/civil-war-photos-traveler/?source=email_places#/civil-war-harpers-ferry_52864_600x450.jpg

Kind regards and with esteem,

Paul.

Battle of the Little Bighorn;

Odessa steps sequence from Battleship Potomkin

I'll post this one today, as I will be away next week;

The rise and fall of Austria - the Habsburg Empire - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLSUZ1qlVM&feature=related

Bit early with these ones, the July 20th bomb plot at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia;

as depicted in the film "Valkyrie",there is a bit of buffering as it has been edited from the original



and on Pathenews;

And a song for the 14th July;

ID,

In the bar you requested something on the Ottomans, try looking at these, as they probably would be more interesting than any of my prose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5jE7y5vT5M -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NREKSPVOLkE&feature=relmfu -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mwPhTS3GTw&feature=relmfu

Thanks Nielsen, I shall enjoy looking through those.

How about "The Battle on the Ice" from the film Alexander Nevsky. I feel that it is quite brilliantly done!



Regards................Alan

I think we can manage that, Alan;



music by Prokofiev

Nielsen wrote:

ID,

In the bar you requested something on the Ottomans, try looking at these, as they probably would be more interesting than any of my prose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5jE7y5vT5M -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NREKSPVOLkE&feature=relmfu -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mwPhTS3GTw&feature=relmfu

Thank you also Per for these. Learned, although I know a lot about it, nevertheless still something...(from my studies to counter the fierce statements of the Beeb Greek forgot now his name...he was from Thessaloniki and lives now in France...he was also on Passion Histoire as "ene"...)

Kind regards and with esteem,

Paul.

Triceratops wrote:

I think we can manage that, Alan;



music by Prokofiev

Thanks Triceratops.

As for the historical background of the battle of lake Peipus see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky

Kind regards and with esteem,

Paul.

It will soon be time for the Olympics, in advance of which the film Chariots of Fire has bee re-released.

This is original footage of Abrahams and Liddell at the 1924 Paris Olympics;

13th July 1863, the first of 3 days rioting in New York against the draft;



and as depicted in Gangs of New York;

20 July 1969;

The Eagle has landed



and one small step;

23rd July 1967, the start of the Detroit Riots;

There have been one or two comments in some quarters that the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics was left wing. Here is an opening ceremony that was not left wing, the official IOC film of this event;

1936 might have been right-wing, but this one was just right embarrassing;



I love the bit when everyone hides behind giant flags (including the Welsh one for some reason) and there isn't a sinner left in the stadium, the only discernible movement being the traffic on the freeway behind. Spooky stuff.

Another spooky one, 1980 Moscow Opening Ceremony. Seems to be a cross between ancient Greece and Rome, but the women are all blonde haired and blue eyed anyway....

This one is Historical - in every sense!

After Meles mentioning that wolves have been sighted in the Pyrenees,

The London Olympics of 1908, among the shots, Dorando Pietri being helped to the line, and subsequently disqualified, at the end of the Marathon.Pietri is supposed to have ingested small amounts of strychnine to help his performance.



(it's better with the music muted)

In contrast to the above this is not at all cheerful. Sorry. But it did rather come to mind while reading the "early balloons" thread and writing about poor Mme Blanchard.

This is not cheerful either, but like the Hindenburg it is some of the iconic footage of the 20th Century;

Centenaries of both the Scott Expedition and the Titanic;

Part 1 of 3, from Richard Holmes' series War Walks about the Battle of Mons;