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
Gone With The Wind
Programme looks at golden days of British cinema going.
2 MB
1940s, leisure, audio
Seaside Holiday
Views of the beach, group of people outside hotel in sunshine, 1940s
6 MB
1940s, leisure, video
Flanagan And Allan
Flanagan and Allen perform for wartime workers, 1940
8 MB
1940s, music, video
Cinema Chips
Programme looks at golden days of British cinema going.
1 MB
1940s, people, audio
First Kiss
Beryl and Graham from Hull. Beryl is a twice married grandmother who talks with her grandson about love, loss and how she lost her heart late in life to the man who gave her a lift home in his Reliant Robin
957 KB
1940s, people, audio
Flanagan And Allan
Flanagan and Allen perform for wartime workers, 1940
8 MB
1940s, people, video
Seaside
Children playing in the sea and on the beach, 1940s
5 MB
1940s, people, video
Seaside 2
Children and teenagers playing in the sea, 1940s
6 MB
1940s, people, video
Summer Camp
Youth group in chalets and playing games, 1940s
10 MB
1940s, people, video
War Effort
Footage of spitfires during the Battle of Britain
4 MB
1940s, people, video
Wartime Chippy
Jayne talks to her mother Sally in Liverpool about their life together and the father she never knew; from London
1 MB
1940s, people, audio
Bomb Shelter
-Mr.Rooney Pelletier, talking to two children who were sheltering in the childrens section of the crypt of St. Martins-in-the-Fields during the broadcast of London carries On, 1940
75 KB
1940s, events, images
