British Pathé's 'Top Ten Tragedies Caught on Film' on YouTube
Archive footage includes a fatal wingsuit leap from the Eiffel Tower and the Hindenburg disaster
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Your support makes all the difference.British Pathé have uploaded its 'Top Ten Tragedies Caught on Film' to YouTube as part of the historic news company's project to make its archive footage freely available online.
The company opened its London branch in 1910 and quickly became well-known for its newsreel footage – short, documentary style films that played before films in the cinema and covered recent events. 90,000 further archival clips are available online.
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