You have probably read the news on several weblogs: British Pathe is putting on line 3500 hours of historical newsreels.
I'm downloading right now a few minutes of footage regarding Gorizia and Trieste (the towns where I live) and it's quite exciting. The only problem is that you can either get them free at a very low resolution, of for 50 Pounds at a nice resolution and with the license to use those contents for one year.
I don't want to use them, I only want to see them at a good resolution. How about a subscrition that would allow me to do that?
Anyway, the site is worth a visit.