These Photos Will FOREVER CHANGE Your View of the World

Indexed: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]Survivors of the Andes plane crash in 1972 who managed to live for 72 days by eating the bodies of the dead.

[00:00:10]A young bride is photographed heading to her wedding in China, 1912.

[00:00:18]A man celebrates the end of prohibition in the USA on December 5th, 1933.

[00:00:26]During the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which claimed around 100 million lives globally, people [music] lived in terror of the devastating disease.

[00:00:38]A Dallas police officer holds the rifle that, according to the investigation, was used to kill John Kennedy in 1963.

[00:00:48]Cleaning a church in Leipzig, Germany, 1920.

[00:00:54]A large moth captured in New York, 1986.

[00:01:00]A 1951 photograph from the Korean War showing Chinese soldiers kneeling before Korean troops and pleading for mercy.

[00:01:11]Crowds in New York City read the breaking news regarding the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963.

[00:01:20]To ensure identification in the event of injury or death from bombing raids, a tattoo artist in Britain in 1942 [music] is shown applying a young lady's social security number to one leg and her address to the [music] other.

[00:01:37]An 18-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger poses with his classmate in 1965.

[00:01:41][music] Underwear from the 15th century was found during castle renovations in Lengberg, Austria, marking [music] a sensational discovery in medieval fashion history.

[00:01:57]This image shows a hang glider constructed from a bedsheet, parquet [music] flooring, and other available materials, which was used to escape from a British prison in 1945.

[00:02:11]Three sisters designated as A-7760, A-7761, and A-7762 by the Nazis upon their arrival at Auschwitz in 1944.

[00:02:25]Construction workers building the 60-story Chase Manhattan Bank Tower in 1955.

[00:02:33]France's last official duel took place in 1967 between a deputy and a mayor.

[00:02:40]The conflict arose after the deputy insulted the mayor in Parliament by calling him an idiot. [music] In California in 1929, swimsuits were subject to inspection to ensure they complied with the decency standards of the time.

[00:02:59]In 1969, when black people were banned from swimming near white people, TV host Mr. Rogers decided to invite Officer Clemmons to join him and cool his feet in the pool.

[00:03:12]Depicting racial hatred, a hotel manager is shown pouring muriatic acid into a swimming pool to force black swimmers to get out.

[00:03:23]An ancient praying mantis is preserved in amber dating back over 12 million years.

[00:03:31]An Indian elephant utilized by German soldiers for tasks at the front during World War I, 1915.

[00:03:41]Segregationists harassed 6-year-old Ruby Bridges by displaying a doll inside a coffin.

[00:03:49]A photograph documenting the execution of the conspirators involved in the assassination of US President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

[00:04:01]During a public speech in New York, USA in 1976, US Vice President Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller gestures with his middle finger to a crowd of hippies.

[00:04:14]An unusual storage space for strollers located on the front of a bus in New Zealand, 1950. [music] A poignant 1992 image capturing the interaction between the child of a Ku Klux Klan member and a black state trooper.

[00:04:34]A photograph showing a few survivors of the Titanic disaster in the USA, May 1912.

[00:04:43]A London family heads to the pool in 1938 carrying gas masks along with their swimwear, symbolizing the anticipation of war.

[00:04:53]>> [music] >> The phrase "no risk, no champagne" likely originated because French wine bottles used to explode, forcing people to wear protective suits in cellars to avoid flying shards, which often cost sommeliers their fingers or eyes.

[00:05:13]Unit 731 conducted horrific experiments on Chinese women who were raped, impregnated, and intentionally infected with syphilis to observe if the disease would be transmitted hereditarily.

[00:05:28]Robert Wadlow, the tallest recorded man in history, was photographed with his family in 1935.

[00:05:38]A family portrait taken during the Spanish flu pandemic, 1918. [music] Halloween at an American school is captured in this photo from the 1980s.

[00:05:53]Adolf Hitler is pictured signing an autograph for a Catholic nun in 1932.

[00:06:00]Harold Whittles experiences sound for the first time in his life immediately after being fitted with a hearing aid.

[00:06:10]In ancient Egypt, an owner would shave his eyebrows to mourn the death of a cat.

[00:06:17]A photograph shows the devastation in London following a bombing in 1940.

[00:06:25]A message sent to the homeland about the most important matters from Afghanistan in the 2000s.

[00:06:33]At Zurich Airport, the planes belonging to Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande, and the rock band Iron Maiden are seen together.

[00:06:44]A peculiar device from 1940 that provoked horror among animal lovers.

[00:06:52]A civilian collects drinking water from a puddle during a lull in fighting in Grozny, 1995.

[00:07:01]This photograph shows the Dyatlov pass tourist group in 1959 taken shortly before their mysterious disappearance.

[00:07:10]In occupied Paris in 1943, a researcher at the Museum of Natural History is shown examining an ancient Peruvian mummy.

[00:07:19]>> [music] >> This demonstrates that science continues even during war.

[00:07:24]>> [music] >> In 1944, an American submarine rescues a pilot shot down by the Japanese, who was the future US president George H.W.

[00:07:35]Bush.

[00:07:39]A chilling moment frozen in time showing Nagasaki, Japan just 2 seconds after the atomic bomb detonated in 1945.

[00:07:49]>> [music] >> During the surrender of the Japanese naval base Kurihama on Honshu in 1945, a Japanese man hands his sword to an American with the hilt under his right arm and the sharp blade facing forward.

[00:08:03]A severe violation of sword etiquette and a deep insult in Japanese culture, though the American is unaware and unbothered.

[00:08:14]The last Mexican grizzly bear being shown to the public in Mexico, 1954.

[00:08:22]A woman demonstrating a plastic protective bra for women working in munitions factories in the USA, 1943, which was believed to protect against radiation and harmful substances.

[00:08:37]Feminist Alan Wagner stands next to 350,000 signatures demanding women's right to vote in Sweden, 1914.

[00:08:48]In November 1945, circus elephants named Kiri and Manny assist in clearing debris from the streets of Hamburg, Germany, following a bombing.

[00:09:01]One of only four preserved human nervous systems in existence. The extraction process took over 1,000 hours.

[00:09:11]Police fight against demonstrators protesting against the Vietnam War in the USA, 1968.

[00:09:20]Ainu girls began the process of tattooing their lips at the age of 7.

[00:09:25]This agonizing ritual involved cutting the skin with a knife and rubbing soot into the wounds, repeating the procedure for years without any anesthesia.

[00:09:37]These tattoos were considered a prerequisite for marriage and finding peace in the afterlife, but by 1871, Japan banned the practice, nearly driving it to extinction.

[00:09:51]A narcotics officer is pictured in the USA in 1993 following a raid on a drug den.

[00:09:59]A photograph of an arrested Saddam Hussein in Iraq, 2003.

[00:10:07]Ormer Locklear, considered the pioneer of wing walking, is pictured before his death in a plane crash while filming a movie in 1920.

[00:10:18]Unit 731, described as a conveyor belt of death, was a special unit of the Japanese armed forces that conducted biological weapons research.

[00:10:29]They experimented on live humans to determine survival times under extreme conditions like boiling water, dehydration, starvation, frostbite, [music] and electric shock.

[00:10:43]In the late 19th century in Washington state, USA, >> [music] >> the stump of a giant cedar tree was utilized as a post office.

[00:10:54]A French soldier lighting a cigar for Winston Churchill in 1944.

[00:11:01]In 1895, two cars collided in Ohio. The oddity of this accident lies in the fact that the automobile industry was just starting, and those were the only two cars in the entire state.

[00:11:17]Although the KKK was officially banned in the 1870s and went underground, the organization resumed open activities in 1915, attracting about 6 million members while lynchings in the US continued.

[00:11:33]Chains used on patients in old psychiatric asylums.

[00:11:39]Staff of the Disney film company during their lunch break in 1961.

[00:11:47]An ancient bloodletting tool from 1850.

[00:11:50]This practice was common in Europe and Russia until the mid-19th century and was considered a primary treatment for many ailments.

[00:12:01]Approximately 100 individuals are shown drawing lots to evenly divide 12 acres of sand dunes they had purchased.

[00:12:09]This location would eventually develop into the city of Tel Aviv, Israel.

[00:12:16]Light bulbs were not always disposable.

[00:12:19]This photo shows a worker at a Soviet factory restoring burned-out electric lamps in December 1942.

[00:12:29]Lee Miller, a US Army frontline photographer, is pictured taking a bath in Hitler's Munich apartment on April 30th, 1945 shortly after she had photographed the horrors of the Dachau concentration camp.

[00:12:46]Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi burns 12 tons of ivory confiscated from poachers in Kenya, 1989.

[00:12:56]A window cleaner working on the World Trade Center, 1979.

[00:13:03]18-year-old Keshia Thomas protecting a fallen man suspected of KKK ties from an angry crowd of protesters in Michigan, USA, 1996.

[00:13:16]This early 20th century photo from Persia shows the execution of [music] a thief.

[00:13:23]What appears to be a statue is is a person subjected to a complex execution method. He was tied up, encased in a wall of raw bricks, and the space was filled with lime.

[00:13:36]After 6 hours, the man was still alive, so he was subsequently shot. The caption notes that his crime was stealing two cucumbers.

[00:13:47]A hippie wedding ceremony, 1965.

[00:13:53]During World War II, the Japanese exhibited unprecedented [music] cruelty, killing more Chinese people than the Nazis killed Jews.

[00:14:02]Tens of thousands of Chinese women were raped, and many were subsequently murdered.

[00:14:10]Due to a shortage of horses after World War I, an elephant named Lizzie is shown helping farmers plow fields and pull carts in Britain, [music] 1919.

[00:14:22]Soviet and American troops embrace near the ruined bridge at Torgau in 1945.

[00:14:29]Their smiles are genuine, but hide the trauma of 4 years of war, including Stalingrad, Normandy, [music] Leningrad, and Pearl Harbor.

[00:14:41]An elderly grandmother in London stares at punk rockers, seeing them for the first time in 1982.

[00:14:48]>> [music] >> Young women from high society are pictured wearing the latest fashionable attire in Paris during the 1910s.

[00:14:59]In South Korea during the 1970s, if the police caught you jaywalking, you were forced to stand in a shame box for 30 minutes.

[00:15:10]American Marines pose for a photo against the backdrop of a massive mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion at the Nevada test site in May 1952.

[00:15:23]A man rode a bus designated for white passengers in Durban, South Africa in 1986 as a protest against the country's apartheid policy.

[00:15:36]Menelik II, the King of Kings of Ethiopia, believed in the healing power of the Bible.

[00:15:42]When he felt unwell, he would tear out pages from the Holy Scriptures and eat them.

[00:15:48]He died in 1913 having reportedly eaten the entire [music] Book of Kings.

[00:15:55]The Tougaloo Nine, a group of nine students arrested in 1961 for entering a whites-only library in Mississippi, are shown here.

[00:16:06]An ordinary American bar from 1941 displays a sign stating that they do not serve beer to Indians.

[00:16:16]A wedding procession of cars is seen driving through the Chelyabinsk region of Russia during the 1990s.

[00:16:26]This is Geronimo, the military leader of the Chiricahua Apache people, >> [music] >> who spearheaded the resistance against the US invasion of his tribe's lands for a quarter of a century.

[00:16:38]He was eventually compelled to surrender to the US Army in 1886.

[00:16:45]>> [music] >> An image from a Dolce & Gabbana advertising campaign in 1987.

[00:16:53]This photograph captures the iceberg the day after the Titanic sank.

[00:16:58]There is a high probability that this specific iceberg was the cause of the disaster.

[00:17:06]In Vienna, Austria in 1946, a soldier marks his return to his homeland.

[00:17:14]A wedding procession in the USSR during the 1960s [music] where the entire village would come together to celebrate the newlyweds.

[00:17:24]Nuns are pictured relaxing at a casino and playing slot machines in Australia, 1971.

[00:17:33]A scene inside a rural hairdressing salon in Brittany, France dating back to 1900.

[00:17:41]A caterpillar invasion struck America in 1869 and this photo shows a group of volunteers actively destroying the harmful insects.

[00:17:50]>> [music] >> The oldest documented joke in history belongs to the Sumerians and dates back to around 1900 BC.

[00:18:01]It goes, "Since time immemorial it has never happened that a young wife did not pass gas in her husband's embrace."

[00:18:12]An Aboriginal man on the northern coast of Queensland, Australia photographed his tribesmen in 1929.

[00:18:22]The opening of the first Starbucks store in 1971. [music] An attack on a grandmother is captured on the streets of London in 1954.

[00:18:36]A US Navy medic uses a stethoscope to listen to the ground in an attempt to detect Viet Cong tunnels during the Vietnam War, 1968.

[00:18:48]Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in 1964 for suing to demand service at a restaurant designated for whites only.

[00:18:58]On October 22nd, 1895, a train speeding to make up for lost time failed to break >> [music] >> crashing through the facade of the Montparnasse station and landing 10 m below on the street. [music] Towards the end of World War II, Germany's desperation for manpower led to the enlistment of children, including 15-year-old Hans Henke, who was photographed crying after being captured by the US Army in 1945. [music] An orphan who had joined the military simply to survive.

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