Our footage collection

A small selection from our large film archive. A journey through the decades of the 20th century. From the first Mutoscope films around 1900 to newsreels and documentaries from the 1930s to the new millennium. The zb Media film collection contains several thousand hours of film material that we have digitised in various archives around the world over the past decades.

As we have archived much more material than we can present here, we welcome enquiries from film producers who would like to use archive material for their productions.

1900 – 1913

Mutoscope

1914 – 1919

1920 – 1929

Lenin
Prohibition

1930 – 1939

Berlin 1933
Nolde Ausstellung Entartete Kunst München 1937
Hitler Heldenplatz Wien 1938
Lakehurst Hindenburg

1939 – 1945

Paris 1940
D-Day 1944
V2 Launch

1946 – 1949

Richard Strauss 1945
Sergiu Celibidache
Berliner Luftbrücke

1950 – 1959

Berlin June 1953
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. 1953

1960 – 1969

John F. Kennedy. Rice University 1962
Koroljow
Woddstock
Apollo 9 Astronauts Apollo 9, spider and gumdrop, Jim McDivitt, Dave Scott, Rusty Schweickart
Apollo 9

1970 – 1979

Looking for more? For information about another 1000 hours of historical film material, please contact us!