History
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This Is What New York Looked Like in 1911
Real, unstaged footage of New York City in 1911 — the Statue of Liberty, the Flatiron, elevated trains and crowded streets, three years before the First World War.
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A Mathematician’s Ladder Over the Berlin Wall
A 25-year-old mathematician hid among the graves of an East Berlin cemetery, then went over the Wall by ladder — and Pathé's camera caught every second.
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The Most Famous Lunch Break in History
Eleven men eat lunch on a steel beam hanging 850 feet above New York, feet dangling over nothing, no harnesses, no net. It became one of the most famous photographs ever taken — and almost nothing about it is what it seems.