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Historic Exploration Stock Video Footage

Licenses 2410 high quality Historic Exploration stock video clips in 4K, raw formats

Man Mountain Climbing

Joshua Van Patter

Vintage Footage

Ryan Light

Rainy Evening In New York City

Alex Ramsey

Moon Landing Apollo 11 Scans

Luboš Rezler

Road trip through canadian nature in british columbia super 8mm

Philip Casey

The needle of a compass turns as light and shadow play across its face
The needle on a compass spins around and around
A compass finds direction with a needle pointing to magnetic north
A low-angle shot shows a pedestrian crossing signal changing from a red 'don't walk' hand to a white 'walk' person symbol on a city street
Rotating globe in motion
A rock climber slides down a hanging rope as viewed from a cavernous opening in the wilderness
A person on a bicycle at high speed in a city alley
Hieroglyphs on a cave wall
Slow motion view from inside a wall as a woman with a sledgehammer demolishes old lath and plaster
Old style world globe slowly spinning
A timelapse of a tugboat sitting at a dock on an overcast day
A person is tracing a pen on a map of the world
Attachment with roman numerals is put on top of a compass
Vintage VHS footage captures the iconic view of the Manhattan Bridge from a bustling street in DUMBO, Brooklyn

Rainy Evening In New York City

Alex Ramsey

A man on an aircraft while hooked to breathing devices
Man dangling from a rope at the opening to a huge cave
The planets atmosphere is green in the dark
A classic two-masted sailboat is anchored in a remote, misty bay as the camera sails away, leaving a wake
A picture of an astronaut in a space suit
A view of a house that has been destroyed
Vintage 8mm footage pans across a vast and rugged volcanic crater landscape under a clear sky
A man touches wall while walking through a dark cave
Large colorful map of north american continent hangs on wall

Moon Landing Apollo 11 Scans

Luboš Rezler

Road trip through canadian nature in british columbia super 8mm

Philip Casey

Vintage VHS footage captures a city street corner with vibrant flowers in the foreground and classic apartment buildings with fire escapes
The tape recorder is operating
A side profile of a man in a hat looks out at a mountainous landscape he then turns his head to look directly at the camera with a serious and contemplative expression
The planet earth with lights and atmosphere with space in the background
A close up of a clock face
Person in a performance submerged in water
Old photographs
Compass finds direction with a needle that moves
The needle spins on a compact style compass
Close up of a compass dial with the needle moving over the compass rose
A vintage sailing vessel floats in a foggy arctic fjord, seen from a desolate rocky shoreline with snowy mountains in the background
Earth globe spinning in a dark room
Dark, abstract, and grainy black and white animation displays a network of blinking digital signals over organic-looking shapes
A car travels in rocky mountains
Ancient sketches appear on a wall
The heavily damaged and cluttered interior of a commercial building is viewed through the dark wooden frame of a four poster bed with bright light coming from the far end
Old style world globe spinning and coming to a stop
Sunlight streams through the windows of a derelict airplane's empty and stripped-down interior
Old files and papers on table
A notebook and compasses hold down a paper map on a desk
A group of explorers in orange suits walks across the desolate arctic tundra next to the ocean on an overcast day
Man wearing helmet looks out a window
Abandoned, rusted machinery sits decaying in a vast, empty desert as wind blows sand across the desolate landscape
A man opens a cover on a compass
Rusty tanks stand by the sea in front of snowcovered mountains
A sheer, rocky cliff during the day
View through a doorway into a destroyed room with a collapsed ceiling and wooden debris scattered across the floor
View of touristic plane wreck on black sand on a cloudy day
Compass finds direction with a needle moving underwater
Crater stands near fog covered mountains under a red tinted sky
A vintage-style shot shows pedestrians walking on the Brooklyn Bridge with the modern Manhattan skyline in the background
Orbiting earth globe hanging on a wire in a natural cave
A time-lapse of sunlight and shadows moving across the sandy floors and decaying walls of an abandoned desert home
City lights glow brightly on the surface of earth from space
A silhouetted scuba diver floats on the surface inside a dark, mysterious underwater cave, illuminated by a single beam of light from above
A group of adults and children walking on a dune on a breezy day
Vintage film footage with light leaks reveals an ancient spiral petroglyph etched onto a large boulder in a desert canyon
The face of a compass
Portrait of a man outdoors at night on a snowy day
Close up of a compass needle moving around the dial

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