What Was Happening 100 Years Ago? | 1925 on Film

A look around the world in 1925.

Newsreels used in this film and timecodes:

USA - KKK march in Washington D.C. (0:00 - 00:21)

China - Civil war scenes (0:21 - 0:58)

Germany - British troops leave the Rhineland (0:58 - 1:18)

Greece - Mass wedding for orphans (1:18 - 1:32)

Australia - Melbourne Regatta (1:32 - 1:56)

Belgium - New Zealand rugby team return to WW1 sites (1:56 - 2:22)

Switzerland - Ice hockey at St Moritz (2:22 - 2:34)

Spain - Royal parade for King Alfonso XIII (2:34 - 2:58)

Gold Coast (Ghana) - Colonial harvest festival (2:58 - 3:20)

Japan - Firemen acrobatics (3:20 - 4:02)

USA - Calvin Coolidge inauguration (4:02 - 4:28)

Ireland - Shamrock harvest (4:28 - 4:58)

Singapore - Floods (4:58 - 5:28)

Germany - First international between England and Germany since WW1 (5:28 - 6:02)

Germany - Von Hindenburg becomes president (6:02 - 6:34)

Bulgaria - 200 killed in St Nedelya Church Assault (6:34 - 7:01)

UK - International women's football between Britain and France (7:01 - 7:33)

USA - Rum bootlegging vessels (7:33 - 8:01)

Norway - Explorer Amundsen returns after going missing (8:01 - 8:32)

UK - Unemployed gather in London (8:32 - 8:43)

China - Shanghai tensions (8:43 - 9:30)

Hong Kong - Elaborate funeral (9:30 - 9:56)

USA - Santa Barbara earthquake aftermath (9:56 - 10:37)

Morocco - Rif War (10:37 - 11:38)

France - Deauville holiday scenes (11:38 - 12:05)

USA - Airship USS Shenandoah in the year of its crash (12:05 - 12:28)

USA - Driving around Colorado's Pikes Peak (12:28 - 12:56)

UK - Fascists gather in London (12:56 - 13:26)

Germany - Extraordinary diving suit (13:26 - 14:13)

UK - Locarno Pact (14:13 - 14:55)

Syria - Damascus in ruins (14:55 - 14:57)

UK - Durham miners dance (14:57 - 16:55)

Netherlands - Kaiser Wilhelm II in exile (16:55 - 17:46)

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[SfântCăpitanul]

Crazy to think that 100 years ago was 1925... time is flying so fast that it scares!

[flipflopfrog]

All these people, their names lost to the mists of time. Lives full of happiness and sadness all just echoes during a brief moment on this planet Earth.

[Volker_GR]

What connects us with these people: They too could not imagine that there could be another world war...

[Christina-gexr]

Fascinating! My mother was born in 1925. It doesn’t seem like it was that long ago. She always seemed young to me! I really enjoy these “ look back” films.

[carlyshemariesga]

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back

[verioffkin]

Stunning. Please keep on with such videos like this one.

[guidanceguilds]

100 years ago is actually a small amount of time in the grand scheme of things. Amazing how much has changed since then.

[putusanjaya]

This reminds me that every day and every hour is as eventful as the days of history of the past, and that the people of the past were just living their everyday lives just like us today. Life and the cycle of time is truly a magnificent thing

[wallclock]

I remember how quick 2019 to 2025 went. It went by in the blink of an eye. That’s also how quick ww2 lasted, 1939 to 1945.

[thepoleontheroad]

China: Okay, this can't get any worse.
Japan: You haven't seen anything yet.

[MrRugbylane]

when I was born 100 years ago was 1870 ... and now we are at 1925 ... next stop 1980 .... holy moley

[CesarEnjoyer]

Thank u British Pathe for recording all this amazing historical footage

[sunnycakess]

Not a single phone in sight. Just war and racism ❤

[West.Ham]

Fascinating. A totally different world.

[georgeweissmann]

A friend of mine turns 98 in May. It's really hard to grasp how much the world has changed within one man's lifetime.

[JMKII]

1925 was the year when my grandma was born. She passed 15 odd years ago but it’s interesting to see the world she was born into.

[usersAugust-wb]

The world a hundred years ago, So silent, everything is on the surface, this is the recorded part

[ZeroDeaths]

This video is very depressing. Seeing their happiness, not knowing a war 2x worse is going to happen soon...

[MichaelJacobi]

Please do a video like this every year ❤