Archive video

We have footage on topics ranging from hard news, politics, and natural disasters to entertainment, red-carpet arrivals, and lifestyle. This includes footage that’s exclusive to AP with our restoration projects ensuring you have access to rare and previously unseen video.

Our collection includes British Movietone’s newsreel — arguably the world’s greatest newsreel archive. British Movietone was the first newsreel to feature sound, the first to use color film, and the first to break many of the big news stories that shaped our history. Spanning 1895 — 1986, the collection includes over 2,200 hours of fully-digitized footage and is rich in coverage of news events, celebrities, sports, music, social history, science and lifestyle.

In addition to historic news stories, we also cover recent news and current events. Up to five hours of recently filmed footage is added daily from AP’s global newsgathering network giving you access to ongoing news stories from around the world.

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