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
School Band
A school band in the 1970s
15 MB
1970s, music, video
School Bus Sing Song
Singing on a school bus, from the 1970s
15 MB
1970s, music, video
School Choir
A school choir from the 1970s
24 MB
1970s, music, video
Showaddywaddy
Showaddywaddy, from 1980s
38 KB
1970s, music, images
Status Quo
The pop group Status Quo wearing their trademark denim.
35 KB
1970s, music, images
Steve Harley
Steve Harley and his group Cockney Rebel appearing on Top of the Pops in the 1970s
37 KB
1970s, music, images
Sweet Potato Song
The song 'Sweet Potato' form the 1970s
13 MB
1970s, music, video
The Clash
The Clash
42 KB
1970s, music, images
The Doolies
Doolies, 1970s
41 KB
1970s, music, images
The Doors
The American pop group The Doors, around in the 1970s and led by Jim Morrison, who died of an overdose.
42 KB
1970s, music, images
The Four Tops
Four Tops backstage at Top of the Pops.
55 KB
1970s, music, images
The Osmonds
The Osmonds - The Osmond Family, 1970s
154 KB
1970s, music, images
