Getty (moving images)

8,000 clips covering cultural, social, and political issues, including images from over 35 separate collections. Getty has drawn on hundreds of thousands of high-quality downloadable footage clips, to depict the people, the places and the events that have shaped the world as we know it today. The source collections, used to provide news, sports, personalities, lifestyle, wildlife, locations, cultures, politics and more, include Archive Films and Image Bank Films, plus Discovery Footage Source (wildlife, nature, science and technology), AFP News (news footage from over 2,900 journalists across the globe) and many others.

Example items:

1956 Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA.

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean. It is 1.71 miles long. The weight of the roadway is hung off of two cables that pass through the two main towers and are fixed in concrete at each end. Each cable is made of 27,572 strands of wire. There are 80,000 miles (129,000 km) of wire in the main cables. The bridge has approximately 1,200,000 rivets.

Still from the film "1956 Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA."

Archery misses youth target in Bhutan

For centuries Bhutan’s national sport archery has had a fervent following in the mountainous Himalayan Kingdom. Steeped in the country’s military history, it is one of the few sports the Bhutanese compete in at the Olympic level. But the tradition is under threat with many young people increasingly enthralled by foreign games like basketball and football. Voiced report.

Still from the film "Archery misses youth target in Bhutan"

Rotation around human respiratory system

Animation depicting a rotation around the respiratory system followed by a zoom through the trachea and into the alveoli.

Still from the film "Rotation around human respiratory system"