CriticalPast offers historic footage and stills comprising one of the largest stock archives in the world. All licensed royalty-free worldwide in perpetuity. Average HD clip price is only USD $200 for 2 minutes. Over 58,000 broadcast quality clips, and growing. Immediate downloads of HD and SD masters and time-coded screeners 24 hours a day to serve the needs of TV, film, and broadcast news professionals. Your source for footage of events people and B-roll spanning the 20th century.

Drawn largely from U.S. government sources CriticalPast contains a huge number of military and war clips as well as propaganda and educational films from many countries.

Specialities: The CriticalPast world war collection is second to none and includes footage from World War I, World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam War, and Cold War. Other specialties include worldwide Political Figures, Industrialization, Culture, Civil Rights, Transportation, Aviation, and Space. Worldwide clients include leading production companies, broadcasters, filmmakers, advertisers, publishers, museums, and online education companies.