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. Dalek Market

    Two of the Daleks from Dr Who pay a visit to Shepherds Bush Market. 1963

    74 KB

    1960s, people, images

  2. Disc Jockey

    A disc jocket from 1963

    80 KB

    1960s, people, images

  3. Benny Hill

    Benny Hill stars in the dresser, 1963

    76 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  4. Doctor Who Unearthly

    Carole Ann Ford as Susan, Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright , William Russell as Ian Chesterton, and William Hartnell as Dr. Who. 'Dr Who: An Unearthly Child' 1963

    120 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  5. Richard Briers

    Richard Briers, 1963

    36 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  6. Trafalgar Pigeons

    Lady feeding pigeons in Trafalgar Square, 1963

    66 KB

    1960s, people, images

  7. Millie

    Millicent Martin, 1963

    58 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  8. Lennon Mc Cartney

    John Lennon and Paul McCartney, on the waterfront at Liverpool. 1963

    74 KB

    1960s, music, images

  9. The Beatles

    'The Beatles' who were photographed here for the BBC after an interview with a member of the BBC Italian Service on the eve of their departure for a tour in Italy, June 1965.

    60 KB

    1960s, music, images

  10. Beatlemania

    Fans mobbing the Beatles at the home of drummer Ringo Starr. 1963

    133 KB

    1960s, people, images

  11. Alice Stern

    Hana Pravda tells Eamonn Andrews the story of the kind caretaker who called them 'gracious ladies' as Alice Stern looks on. THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Alice Stern, concentration camp survivor, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews outside the BBC Television Theatre. 1963

    70 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  12. Doctor Who

    William Russell as Ian, Carole Ann Ford as Susan, Jacqueline Hill as Barbara and William Hartnell as Dr.Who. 'An Unearthly Child - The Firemaker' 1963

    85 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images