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
Child Evacuation
Children being evacuated via train and ship, 1940s
9 MB
1940s, childhood, video
Seaside
Children linking arms heading down to the beach and playing in the sea, 1940
6 MB
1940s, childhood, video
Seaside 2
Large group of children playing in the sea, 1940s
11 MB
1940s, childhood, video
Summer Camp
Youth group in chalets and playing games, 1940s
10 MB
1940s, childhood, video
Battle of Britain
Footage of spitfires during the Battle of Britain
12 MB
1940s, events, video
Child Evacuation
Children being evacuated via train and ship, 1940s
9 MB
1940s, events, video
Dig For Victory
Digging for Victory. 1940
7 MB
1940s, events, video
Dover Bombing
Dover during the war, 1940s
5 MB
1940s, events, video
Spitfire Pilots
Spitfire pilots report back after battle, 1940s
6 MB
1940s, events, video
War Effort
People contributing to the war effort.
4 MB
1940s, events, video
World War Fighter Pilots
British Fighter Pilots in action during World War 2
9 MB
1940s, events, video
Cinema Snacks
Programme looks at golden days of British cinema going.
2 MB
1940s, leisure, audio
