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Our20thCenturyArchives
Curated Collection

Explore a defining decade of political change, social progress, global conflict, scientific achievement, entertainment, fashion, and popular culture through authentic archival footage from Cummings Entertainment’s Our 20th Century Archives. This collection includes footage relating to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, the March on Washington, the Selma voting-rights march, the Civil Rights Act, the Watts riots, apartheid protests, the Vietnam War, anti-war demonstrations, and major Cold War developments. The collection also documents the Space Race, including Alan Shepard’s first U.S. spaceflight, John Glenn orbiting Earth, Edward White’s spacewalk, and the 1969 Moon landing. Additional material covers The Beatles’ arrival in America, Marilyn Monroe, Sidney Poitier’s historic Academy Award, Hollywood premieres, fashion shows, professional sports, world leaders, and changing everyday life throughout the decade. Ideal for documentaries, television programs, educational productions, museum exhibits, historical retrospectives, news features, advertising, and digital media projects. Individual clips are available through Pond5, with curated collections and expanded licensing available directly through Cummings Entertainment.