Thanks to the digital process of colourisation, dozens of history’s most iconic photographs have been transformed from black and white into glorious technicolour.

And the effect is absolutely stunning and will probably make you see these historic moments in a completely new light.

The historic black and white images taken by photographers such as Eddie Adams, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Alexander Gardner, Malcolm Browne, Joe Rosenthal and Dorothea Lange infiltrated popular culture and stood the test of time.

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Now, the likes of Mads Madsen of Colorized History, Sanna Dullaway, Ryan Urban, Agnoiologist and Kibblenbits have colourised the images and the results are spectacular.

From the famous 1945 Times Square kiss, to a nuclear weapons test being conducted by the United States in 1946, to the buddhist monk setting himself alight, the transformation of these incredible images makes them even more striking.

Take a trip through history and check out two dozen of the best black and white images transformed into full colour below:

Jack Delano/Library of Congress/Ryan Urban

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Eddie Adams/AP Photo/Sanna Dullaway

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Library of Congress/Mads Madsen

Joe Rosenthal/AP Photo/Mads Madsen

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Margaret Bourke-White/Getty/Sanna Dullaway

Alexander Gardner/Library of Congress/Mads Madsen

Dorothea Lange/Library of Congress/Mads Madsen

Mads Madsen

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Toni Frissell/Library of Congress/Agnoiologist

Dorothea Lange/Library of Congress/Jordan Lloyd

Malcolm Browne/AP Photo/Sanna Dullaway

Ruth Orkin/Getty/Mads Madsen

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Library of Congress/Kibblenbits

Mads Madsen

Dorothea Lange/Library of Congress/Mads Madsen

Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums/Sanna Dullaway

Seth Kinman/Wikimedia/Mads Madsen

Roger Higgins/Library of Congress/Mads Madsen

Wikimedia/Mads Madsen

U.S. Department of Defense/Sanna Dullaway

Wikimedia/Sanna Dullaway