People Are Sharing 'Alternate Angles' Of Historical Events And locations, Here Are 30 Of The Best

Leona Martinez

The 'Alternate Angles' subreddit is the online community where its member dedicate to sharing a plethora of different views of 'iconic events and places in history beyond the traditional well-known photos and videos.' The subreddit was created in 2019 and has grown in the number of members over the last few years. Now this group attracted more than 145k people.

Have you ever doubted what the Sphinx looks like from behind? Or have you ever seen the Sydney Opera House from above? Go to this subreddit, you can easily access a plethora of different views of famous images. For your convenience, we have collected some of the most remarkable alternate angles of iconic historical images. Scroll down to check them out yourselves. We're sure that they'll blow your mind.


#1. Two girls at the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989

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#2. Prince William giving the “middle finger” after Prince Louis’ birth

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#3. Alternate Angle of The Phantom Menace

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#4. The Nevermind baby getting out of the pool

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#5. Different view of the pyramids

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#6. Onlookers reacting to the explosion of the challenger space shuttle

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#7. I Have A Dream

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#8. The Statue of Liberty at the 1878 Paris World Fair before being fully assembled and shipped to the United States

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#9. Behind the Price is Right wheel

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#10. Lady Liberty

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#11. Neil Armstrong’s family watching his launch to the moon-1969

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#12. Lincoln Memorial before the reflecting pool

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#13. Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams, about 37 miles to the east. Photo from Mt Adams by John V. Christiansen around 8:32 am local time on May 18, 1980 & published in a 1981 National Geographic magazine

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#14. A more depressing view of the Taj Mahal

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#15. Sydney Opera House from top

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#16. Onlookers in horror and disbelief as they watch the Twin Towers collapse on 9/11

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#17. Soldiers at a port in England waiting to leave for Normandy on D Day

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#18. AA of the Sphinx - it has a tail!

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#19. Star Wars Episode IV opening crawl

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#20. The leaning tower of Pisa is empty on the inside

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#21. North Korean founder Kim-Il Sung had a baseball sized tumor on the back of his head. North Korean propaganda officials had all photos taken of him from the left side. This is one of the few candid photos of the tumor

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#22. Bob Ross before he decided to grow out his afro, 1970s.

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#23. The Tank Man photo from the day of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, uncropped

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#24. Backside of Tutankhamuns mask

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#25. Tiananmen Square before the infamous picture, the guy is in the top left, 1989

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#26. The position of the camera man who took the picture of the Dallas shooter

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#27. Queen filming the iconic Bohemian Rhapsody music video in 1975

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#28. Charles Ebbets photographing “Lunch on a Skyscraper”, the famous picture of workers in NY eating their lunch on a hanging steel beam

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#29. The Beatles lining up for the Abbey Road album cover photo

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#30. The David statue protected by bricks during WW2

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