Preserving our past. Honoring our legacy.
Thousands of historical photographs, documentary videos and exclusive documents — preserved digitally for future generations.
Explore history year by year
Discover key events, stories, and archives from the Kosovo War.
Browse TimelineGeography of memory
Every city holds its own story. Select a location to open its photographs, films, documents and testimonies.
Long-form reporting
Investigations and narratives assembled from photographs, film reels and first-hand accounts.
Moving image collection
The photographic record
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Paper trail
Scanned letters, maps and official records — preserved at archival resolution with full provenance.
From the international archives
Original photographs and film from the war and its aftermath — the exodus, the air campaign, the liberation and the divided peace — preserved by international archives and reproduced under their free licences.
Every item in this section is an original historical record: photographs by US DoD, US Navy, USMC and UK MOD personnel (public domain / OGL) and by Wikimedia Commons contributors (CC BY / CC BY-SA), films from the Clinton Presidential Library and the US National Archives. Credits appear on each item.
In their own words
Recorded testimonies from those who lived through it — kept exactly as they were spoken.
Why this archive exists
“A photograph outlives the moment, the negative, and the photographer. We preserve these images not to hold on to grief — but so that memory has a home, and history has a witness.”
— Esat Shala
History that is not preserved is history that can be rewritten. This archive exists so that students, researchers, families and future generations can see the Kosovo War as it was — unedited, in the faces and places of the people who lived it.
Keep memory alive
Preservation is permanent work. Every contribution digitizes negatives, restores film and keeps this history open to all.
