These nearly 3000 items from the BBC Archive have been made freely available for personal, educational, and research use, licensed under the terms of the RemArc licence.

The material is searchable, can be browsed by ‘Theme’ or ‘Decade’, and filtered by media type.

You can download individual items from the collection, or use the search and filtering to produce your own downloadable collections.

Notes on downloading:

  • Downloading video items will include both the video files and a ‘poster image’ for each video
  • Downloading audio items will include both the audio files and a ‘poster image’ for each audio item, if available
  • Downloading image items will just include the images
  • All downloads will include a CSV file containing the metadata for the selected media items

Search Results

2977 results found

  1. Telephone

    Pre 1960 telephone

    74 KB

    1960s, people, images

  2. Traffic

    1964 BBC Bush House, London - headquarters of the BBC World Services.

    63 KB

    1960s, people, images

  3. Viewers

    Viewers line up to see a show at The Television Theatre, on Shepherds Bush Green, in London

    56 KB

    1960s, people, images

  4. Bobby Charlton Portrait

    Sir Bobby Charlton

    36 KB

    1960s, sport, images

  5. British Lions

    Cliff Morgan interviewing members of the British Lions team on the programme Welsh Sports Parade

    42 KB

    1960s, sport, images

  6. Cassius Clay

    Cassuis Clay, 1960s

    849 KB

    1960s, sport, audio

  7. Cricket

    Cricket, from the 1960s

    12 MB

    1960s, sport, video

  8. FA Cup

    Osbourne, the West Bromwich Albion Goalkeeper in action during the FA Cup Final. Albion went on to win the trophy.

    69 KB

    1960s, sport, images

  9. FA Cup Crowd

    Spectators at the FA Cup Final, televised on Saturday 18th May 1968. Everton v West Bromwich albion - Albion went on to win the trophy.

    79 KB

    1960s, sport, images

  10. FA Cup Trophy

    Osbourne and Talbot of West Bromwich Albion who beat West Ham in the 1968 FA Cup final carrying the trophy

    68 KB

    1960s, sport, images

  11. Fencing

    On May 31st, 1961 a display of fencing was given at Marylebone High Street by members of the All-England Fencing Club.

    36 KB

    1960s, sport, images

  12. Golf

    Golf, from the 1960s

    7 MB

    1960s, sport, video