D-Day landings and the original singing dog: top 10 British Pathé videos

The Hiroshima atomic bomb (1945)

Footage from television series A Day That Shook The World captures ‘Little Boy’, the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon, dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.

Titanic footage and survivors interviews (1912)

In this short television documentary, survivors of the 1912 Titanic disaster recall their experiences aboard the ship, and how they survived.

The original singing dog (1934)

Animal videos are now something of an internet sensation, but it seems that the supposedly modern trend in fact began in 1934….

Princess Diana dies in Paris car crash (1997)

John Humphrys reports on the death of 36-year-old Princess Diana in August 1997, in an episode of A Day That Shook The World.

Franz Reichelt jumps off the Eiffel Tower (1912)

On 4 February 1912, Austrian-born French tailor and inventor, Franz Reichelt, jumped from the Eiffel Tower wearing a homemade parachute. Here he is seen hovering on the brink, before suddenly leaping to his death. The Parisien media below are then seen measuring the depth of the hole made by the impact of his body.

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Battle of the Somme (1916)

John Humphrys narrates footage of the battle of the Somme, captured in an episode of A Day that Shook the World.

Tallest man in history (1936)

Towering at 8ft 1.5ins, Robert Wadlow is seen here being filmed by Pathé cameras in 1936. By the time of his death at the age of 22, he had grown to 8ft 11ins. He is still to this day known as the tallest person in medical history.

Emily Davison throws herself under the king’s horse (1913)

The 1913 Derby Day protest of suffragette Emily Davison is seen here ending in tragedy, when she throws herself under the horse of King George V.

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D-Day landings (1944)

Allied troops are seen here beginning their invasion of Europe with the D-Day landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944.

Hitler becomes German Chancellor (1933)

The appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany in 1933 is captured in this footage. Not long afterwards the Reichstag – the German parliament – was set on fire. Portrayed by Hitler’s cabinet as part of a Communist plot to overthrow the state, the fire was exploited to secure approval for an emergency decree – the Decree for the Protection of the People and the State – which suspended freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and permitted the regime to arrest and incarcerate political opponents without specific charge.

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