| Website | CriticalPast.com |
| Blog | criticalpast.word... |
| @CriticalPast | |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Phone | 800-249-4430 |
| Employees | 7 |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Description | Historic videos and photos |
CriticalPast is one of the world’s largest online archives of royalty-free historic video footage and photo images.
It provides archival stock footage and stock photos to a range of customers, from history buffs to professional film producers worldwide.
The CriticalPast collection spans over 57,000 historic videos and 7 million still photo images, all of which are available for free viewing online, or for immediate download. Orders for footage are instantly transcoded from full-resolution masters and offered in a choice of more than 10 professional and consumer formats, for immediate download. The company’s 7 million still photo images were extracted from the video images using a series of proprietary techniques to yield a never-before-seen collection of historic photographs for viewing or download.
CriticalPast.com includes some of history’s most iconic moments from over 4,000 locations worldwide and dating as far back as the 1890s to modern times. Key themes in the collection include Early Motion Pictures, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, American Presidents, The Great Depression, Civil Rights, and the Cold War.
