The British Pathé Archive

British driver Grover-Williams wins the first ever Monaco Grand Prix in 1929: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/another-british-triumph/

Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra, has been lauded by critics at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Michael Douglas stars as the pianist Valentino Liberace and Matt Damon plays his long term lover, Scott Thorson.

Watch this 1968 clip of the real Liberace shopping in Carnaby Street: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/liberace-in-carnaby-street

2013’s Chelsea Flower Show opens today!

British Pathé has some of the best Chelsea Flower Shows from throughout the 20th century, including star-studded and Royal days out at the event. Click here to view.

20 Acts Of Terror: Gallery of Terrorist Atrocities from 1919 to 2005 using contemporary news footage from the archive. http://www.britishpathe.com/gallery/terrorism/0

Image: Terrorist attack, Liverpool 1920.

Twenty Acts Of Terror: Gallery of Terrorist Atrocities from 1919 to 2005. http://www.britishpathe.com/gallery/terrorism/0

Image: IRA attack on Ulsterbus Depot, 1972.

Incredible Boer War material from the archive, 1899-1900: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/boer-war-material-reel-2

Today, celebrations mark 70 years since the Dambusters Raid. You can see the bouncing bomb and footage of the Dambusters themselves in this collection.

The Cannes Film Festival is now in full swing. Here’s British Pathé’s collection of past events: Classic Cannes Collection

“Bath In Your Best Clothes” - this fabulous film from the archive features a demonstration of clothes that retain their shape no matter what you do to them, enabling you to… wear them in the bath (should you so desire): http://www.britishpathe.com/video/bath-in-your-best-clothes

Steven Spielberg is heading the jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival which begins on 15th May. British Pathé has footage from the festival during the 1950s and 1960s. The archive also contains material from the very first festival in 1946 - http://www.britishpathe.com/video/cannes-film-festival-5/

On 14th May 1948, David Ben-Gurion declared the establishment of the state of Israel. http://www.britishpathe.com/video/palestine-under-arms-aka-palestine-defies-solution/

Can anyone help identify these IRA attacks in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the 1970s? Seems to be three separate incidents.

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/ira-outrages-in-northern-ireland

It is 70 years since the final surrender of the Axis powers in North Africa in May 1943. British Pathé has footage of the conflict in that region, a selection of which can be seen here.

A BOAC plane takes off from Beirut for Dawson’s Field in Jordan after being hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 1970. Unedited film footage.

World War II accounted for over 60 million deaths and innumerable lives shattered. This gallery reveals the 10 bloodiest battles of WWII that were caught on film.