Historical Footage from Turkey, the Middle East and Beyond
The 32.Day archive contains more than 26,000 catalogued footage segments filmed across Turkey, the Middle East, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the former USSR and beyond.
Original interviews, location footage, political events, wars, coups and historical moments filmed by the journalists and crews of 32.Day. Search the archive or request footage for your documentary, broadcast, film or research project.
Who's on tape
The people who appear most in the 32.Day archive, each with a page of catalogued footage.
Search the archive
Search all 26,617 segments by person, event, place, year, topic, tape format or rarity. English words are matched to the Turkish tape log, so coup finds darbe.
Footage for documentaries and broadcast
Every segment in the catalogue sits on original tape in our Istanbul library, most of it Betacam or 1-inch. We license directly, with no agency in between. Tell us what you need, or quote the archive IDs from your request list, and we pull the tapes, confirm the rights position and send watermarked viewing copies with a written quote. Rates are set per minute by rarity, from Standard to Exclusive, and the final price depends on media, territory and term. Documentary, broadcast, streaming, commercial and educational licences are all available.
Material held nowhere else, including the Öcalan and PKK interviews and field footage.
Unobtainable elsewhere: exclusive interviews and on-location rushes.
Hard to find: 32.Day's own location shoots and features.
General coverage, studio segments and supporting material.
From the archive
Programmes published on the 32.Gün YouTube channel. The original tapes behind each one can be licensed.
17:44
Abdullah Öcalan Interview199212.6M views
32.Day archiveLeaders on the Record1990
50:04
Saddam Hussein, Raw Interview1990250K views
32.Day archiveLeaders on the Record1986
20:27
Yasser Arafat's First Interview with Turkish Television198619K views
32.Day archiveCoups & Turkish Politics1980
7:52
The 1980 Coup: Kenan Evren Tells His Story19803.7M views
32.Day archiveGulf War & Iraq1991
1:02:29
What Happened in the Gulf Crisis1991327K views
32.Day archiveBalkans & Former USSR1991
9:26
How the Soviet Union Collapsed, Filmed in Moscow19911.3M views
32.Day archiveBalkans & Former USSR1993
13:32
The Bosnia-Herzegovina Tragedy1993161K views
32.Day archiveLeaders on the Record1993
33:17
President Turgut Özal on 32.Day19931.5M viewsExplore the archive
Presidents, prime ministers, guerrilla leaders and generals.
Events19 pagesCoups, wars, peace deals and scandals.
Places20 pagesFrom Ankara and Istanbul to Baghdad, Sarajevo and Moscow.
Topics17 pagesThe Kurdish question, Turkish politics, the Middle East, the Balkans.
Decades8 pagesFrom historical documentary material to the 2000s.
The 32.Day archive
32.Gün (32.Day) was the current-affairs programme created and presented by Mehmet Ali Birand. It first aired on TRT on 1 October 1985 and ran for more than three decades on several Turkish channels. Its crews filmed across Turkey, the Middle East, the Balkans, the Caucasus and the former Soviet Union.
The archive is operated by Birand Yapım in Istanbul. It holds 26,617 catalogued tape segments: broadcast programmes, raw interviews and location rushes, mostly on Betacam and 1-inch tape.
Licence this footage
Original material for documentary, broadcast, film, streaming and other approved uses. Quote the archive IDs you need, or describe the scene and we'll search the tape logs.
Need footage from this archive?
Send us your project, the subject and the archive IDs if you have them. We reply within two working days.