Associated Press has resurrected 3,500 hours of international news footage from thge early 1960s to the mid 1980s which had been buried in a World War Two-era bunker in central London.

The project has unveiled new colour footage of key political figures including a young Yasser Arafat, Libya’s Colonel Gadhafi immediately after taking power, Richard Nixon with Nicolae Ceausescu, Fidel Castro meeting Latin American and Eastern European leaders and a young Saddam Hussein in Paris.

Celebrities also feature and included is footage of Jane Fonda’s controversial visit to North Vietnam at the height of the Vietnam War and Elizabeth Taylor’s star-studded 40th birthday party.