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. Nature Swimming

    Forest bathing in 1968

    5 MB

    1960s, childhood, video

  2. Rowing

    Belfast Boat Club regatta on the River Lagan, form 1968

    4 MB

    1960s, leisure, video

  3. Children Visit Ship Yard

    Children go on a field trip to the Harland and Wolff shipyard in 1968

    2 MB

    1960s, childhood, video

  4. Dog Show

    Dogs at a dog show in 1968

    4 MB

    1960s, animals, video

  5. Yachting

    The Ulster Regatta, form 1968

    2 MB

    1960s, leisure, video

  6. Doctor Who Cyberman

    A Cyberman crawling from the London sewers through a manhole. The 'Cybermen' are back again in 'Dr. Who and the Invasion' 1968

    116 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  7. Morecambe And Wise

    The Morecambe and Wise Show' 1968

    100 KB

    1960s, tv and radio, images

  8. Escaped Bull

    An escaped bullock run into Cromac Street post office and charges around the car park.

    2 MB

    1960s, animals, video

  9. Dizzy Gillespie

    Dizzy Gillespie, one of the worlds foremost jazz trumpeters, 1968

    54 KB

    1960s, music, images

  10. Christmas Shoppers

    Christmas Shoppers shopping in the winter sales; kids search for presents in the decorations of the City Hall Christmas Tree as workmen take it down.

    6 MB

    1960s, people, video

  11. Cliff Richard And Hank Marvin

    Cliff Richard and Hank Marvin from The Shadows. 1969

    70 KB

    1960s, music, images

  12. Dave Clark 5

    The Dave Clark Five on 'Top of the Pops' 1969

    81 KB

    1960s, music, images