IWM’s unique collections tell the stories of people’s spirit, resilience, creativity, and innovation in the face of adversity.
Although best known for its coverage of the two World Wars, the Archive covers twentieth century conflict in its entirety. Comprising more than 11 million photographs, the collection is also notable for great works of art from the British government war art schemes and a constantly growing film and sound archive.
To find out more about how our collections inspire contemporary, relevant and commercial ideas and how unique access, curatorial expertise and historical accuracy can give authenticity to your project, please contact us.
[…] film archive at the Imperial War Museums houses the biggest archive of wartime film in the UK with over 23,000 hours of film. A new […]
[…] enjoyed this run down of archive content usages by the Imperial War Museums licensing team for special TV programming to mark 75 years since the end of the war in […]
[…] IWM is recruiting for 6 x roles in time-based and still media digitisation to join our Visual Resources Preservation and Access teams.The digitisation team converts our analogue collections to enable them to be preserved for generations to come and accessible online. The Preservation team will be instrumental in Digital Futures, a five year project to digitise 1.8 million films, photographs and sound recordings. […]
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[…] War Museums London have put together a linkable list to archival material, licensed from the IWM collections, have appeared in notable projects this year, with many documentaries still available to view on […]
[…] you are after stock footage of the Queen the Imperial War Museums curators have selected some clips of Princess Elizabeth in our collections including amateur […]
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[…] IWM’s new Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries provide a vivid account of modern war. Showcasing the experiences and innovations of artists, filmmakers and photographers, these galleries explore the complex tension between creativity and destruction. PAN’s new event reporter James Claydon attended the opening and sent us these images reporting: “What a great exhibition space this is – as close to a comprehensive visual representation of conflict as one could expect. The blending of photography, video and art from 1914 to now is both sympathetic and thought provoking.”The show included John Singer Sargent’s iconic artwork, Gassed, returns to IWM London (see last photo) – Commissioned by the government’s British War Memorials Committee (BWMC), the monumental painting depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack on the Western Front in August 1918 and is our most requested image at the IWM licensing dept. […]
[…] interesting watch here from the Imperial War Museums archive …On 6 June 1944, nearly 29,000 troops were landed on Sword Beach, and embedded among […]