by Matt Lee
Quick Summary
The Associated Press and British MovieTone recently uploaded one million minutes (as their press release counts it) of digitized historical f
The Associated Press and British MovieTone recently uploaded one million minutes (as their press release counts it) of digitized historical film footage to YouTube. The YouTube channel features some 550,000 videos covering some of the most significant moments in history, from 1895 to today.
If you want some help figuring out where to start within that one million minutes, take a look at a Washington Post article titled “An expert’s must-see guide to the half million amazing historical videos AP just put online.”
That expert, Jenny Hammerton of the AP Archives, recommends:
The Hindenburg disaster
MLK Jr arrested on march in Selma
The Berlin Wall comes down
…along with several more.
The videos have advertising, as you might expect on YouTube, but coupled with the AP videos recently added to certain EBSCO databases, represent quite a treasure-trove of historical video content for students and researchers.
