A few days ago the film company British Pathé (which traces its history to the earliest years of moving pictures in the mid-1880s) announced that its entire collection of 85,000 historic films, newsreels, and “cinemagazines” has been uploaded to the Intertubes and is now available for viewing in glorious HD.

The collection is accessible via the British Pathé YouTube Channel. Not surprisingly, it includes a slew of materials relating to major conflicts of the twentieth-century, including the following remarkable footage of Japanese kamikaze attacks on US vessels during WWII and the equally remarkable floating drydocks the US Navy used to repair damaged ships in the Pacific Theater.

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