Audios & Videos | Aden Historical Archive

           Watch and listen to rare Historical videos, documentaries, and audio recordings about Aden’s history, culture, and colonial past.

This rare archival video presents Historical footage of Aden city during the British colonial period, documenting urban life, port activity, and daily scenes between the early 20th century and the 1950s. The black and white images capture Aden’s strategic importance as a major maritime hub of the British Empire, showing streets, harbor operations, and colonial-era infrastructure.

The footage provides valuable visual evidence of Aden’s multicultural society, architectural development, and economic role in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean trade routes. Such Historical videos are essential for researchers, historians, and students studying British rule in Aden (1839–1967).

This video forms part of the Aden Historical Archive, a digital documentation project dedicated to preserving photographs, films, maps, and documents related to Aden’s modern history.