r/historyporn images and videos

Highway 80, aftermath of the infamous “Highway of Death”, 1991, Gulf War. [720x518].

Legendary Soviet rockstar Viktor Tsoi of Kino working his day job as a stoker in a Leningrad boiler room, required by law to avoid being prosecuted for "parasitism" (1986) [1080x1753]

A weekly food ration for one adult in the United Kingdom, 1942. [720x533]

Firefighter Mike Kehoe ascending the stairs of Tower One, 2001[560x405]

Nikita Khrushchev surrounded by people voting for his resignation, USSR, October 14, 1964. [800x532]

National Bolshevik woman standing in front of the Home Front to Front Memorial in Magnitogorsk, Russia, 1995. [1079x1326]

Farm workers having lunch near combine harvesters - during harvest season in the Kherson Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, c. 1973. [640 x 475]

A young boy, Harold Whittles, hears for the very first time after being fitted with a hearing aid, 1974 [936x1600]

Group of a women undergoing slimming course in a courtyard. USA - New York City, 1922 [1200x788]

A victim of the heatwave, in front of him a pile of saucers, equivalent to his number of drinks (so far...); France - Paris, June 1941 (WW2) [1132x800]

Marine Staff Sergeant A. S. Barnacle shaving at a washstand that is half-submerged, 05-28-1945 (820x1220)

Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-5 fighter aircraft, from the 4th Staffel of Jagdgeschwader 54 (4./JG 54) of the Luftwaffe - discovered in the Leningrad Oblast, Soviet Union, photo from 1989. [531 x 376]

Headquarters of the Russian National Socialist Federative Popular Front (RFP) in Manchuria, 1934. [608x738]

78 years ago today- Pictures from the funeral of the four Borgstrom brothers who were Killed in Action during WWII- June 25, 1948 [1200x1185]

Chechen women praying for Russian troops not to advance on Grozny, December 1994. [700x489]

A P-47 Thunderbolt piloted by Capt Raymond M Walsh of the 406th Fighter Group is silhouetted against the exploding ammunition truck he just strafed, France, June 23, 1944. The image was captured by his wingman’s gun camera in the following P-47. [1500x1014]

RAF and Luftwaffe fighters dogfighting above St. Paul's Cathedral during the London Blitz, 1940. [1080x1291]

The members of Creedence Clearwater Revival dining at Taco Bell in San Luis Obispo, California in 1968. Photo credit: Gerald Gaxiola. [846x951]

U.S. Marine First Lieutenant Robert B. Sheeks, a combat intelligence and Japanese language officer with the 2nd Marine Division, convinces a Japanese family to surrender. Saipan, 21 June 1944 [3000 × 2465]

Men drink from "oversized" drinking glasses during the heatwave in Paris; Photo: Keystone Photo Agency; France - Paris, 1971 [1200x830]

US Army Infantryman and Medal of Honor Recipient SSG David Bellavia (left) During the Second Battle of Fallujah, 2004. Story in Caption [792x594]

Egyptian president Anwar sadat sitting on a replica of the golden throne of Tutankhamun near the pyramids (1979) (1006×1500)

John Cleese taking a break on the set of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) [468x810]

Anti religious indoctrination of children in Kharkiv, 1932-1933. "Religion is a drug. Down with priests"[809x559].

Hans Tröbst, German WW1 Officer who joined the Turkish National Movement during the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1923)

Hermann Göring and Benito Mussolini with Göring’s pet lion, September 1937. [1080x1408]

A member of the Dyatlov Pass expedition rests in a snow shelter during the group's ill-fated trek in the northern Ural Mountains, Soviet Union. February 1959. [640 × 480]

Exhausted from their rapid advance inland from the Normandy beachhead, U.S. soldiers relax for a few minutes outside a French cafe. 20 June, 1944 [3600 × 2994]

The collapsed roof of the Hartford Civic Center, six hours after nearly 4,700 fans attended a basketball game there. Hartford, Connecticut, January 18, 1978 [614x459]

Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst, 22, is escorted by U.S. Marshals from the Federal Building in San Francisco back to the San Mateo County Jail following a day in court during her trial for assisting the Symbionese Liberation Army during a bank robbery (California, March 5, 1976) [1054 x 1072].

British infantry of the York and Lancaster Regiment in the village of Fontenay-le-Pesnel, Normandy, France. 25 June 1944 [4488 × 4486]

Princess of belguim (and future queen of italy) Marie-José dressed in an ancient egyptian themed outfit at a ball in 1926 (500×715)

Galina Brezhneva (1929 - 1998), the daughter of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev (1906 - 1982), showing legs while dancing on a table during a "home holiday", Photo: Yuri Rybczynski, Russia - Near Moscow, 1992 [1150x800]

A P-47 Thunderbolt piloted by Capt Raymond M Walsh of the 406th Fighter Group is silhouetted against the exploding ammunition truck he just strafed, France, June 23, 1944. The image was captured by his wingman’s gun camera in the following P-47. [1500x1014] - COLORIZED

German Wehrmacht soldiers on a truck loaded with gear driving past bystanders in Oslo, Norway, during the early days of the German invasion and occupation of the country, known as Operation Weserübung. (1940) [1380×1036]

[Colorized] From Left To Right - Oliver Hardy ,Stan Laurel ,Jimmy Durante and Buster Keaton - 1932 - [1150 x 912]

A revolutionary soldier on horseback during the Mexican Revolution, 1910s [Colorized] [1064 × 1478]

Photo taken 160 years ago... "Virginia Oldoini (1837 - 1899) Countess of Castiglione". Photo: Pierre-Louis Pierson (1822 - 1913, a French photographer). Photo was taken at the Mayer & Pierson studio, located at 3 Boulevard des Capucines in Paris, France, circa 1866 [1930x2896]

Soviet soldiers examine the guillotine in Berlin-Plötzensee Prison, May 1945, photo by Ivan Shagin. [1205x841px]

Workers in a Soviet car factory hold a rally against the Vietnam War, 1973 [Colorized] [1491 × 1055]

Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (1891-1942), one of the assassins of Grigori Rasputin. Photograph taken 1912-1914. [823x827]

President Ronald Reagan, First Lady Nancy Reagan, Donald, and Ivana Trump at a White House state dinner for King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia. 11 February 1985 [4000 × 2885]

Rhodesian Grey's Scouts mounted infantryman with a Heckler & Koch G3 rifle - during the Rhodesian Bush War, c. 1975 - 1979. [960 x 647]

An incredibly lucky stereograph of the Wright Flyer, Lusitania, and the Statue of Liberty, 1909 [1280x646]

The moment General Douglas MacArthur fulfilled his famous promise “I shall return” and came back to the Philippines after years of Japanese occupation; Leyte, Philippines - 1944 (WW2) [640x479]