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. Horse Racing

    Bob Champion (white shirt, blue strip) on Aldaniti during the 1981 Grand National, 1981

    100 KB

    1980s, sport, images

  2. Welsh Elvis

    Shakin Stevens performing 'You Drive me Crazy' on 'Top of the Pops' 1981

    68 KB

    1980s, music, images

  3. Siouxsie Sioux

    Siouxsie Sioux performing 'Spellbound' with the Banshees on 'Top of the Pops' 1981

    66 KB

    1980s, music, images

  4. Graduation

    University student wearing Mortar Board, 1981

    74 KB

    1980s, people, images

  5. Depeche Mode

    Depeche Mode appearing on 'Top of the Pops' 1981

    111 KB

    1980s, music, images

  6. Royal Wedding Street Party

    People gathered round the tv watching the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, followed by a fancy dress parade and partying in the street, Rhondda 1981

    11 MB

    1980s, events, video

  7. David Bowie As 'Baal'

    David Bowie plays the title role in 'Baal', Bertolt Brecht's play about self-destruction. 1981

    39 KB

    1980s, music, images

  8. David O'Leary

    David OLeary of Arsenal FC, 1981

    63 KB

    1980s, sport, images

  9. Notting Hill

    Sound System at Notting Hill Carnival, 1981

    112 KB

    1980s, events, images

  10. Doctor Who Davison

    Peter Davison as the Doctor in the 'Dr Who' sci-fi adventure 'Earthshock'. 1981

    54 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  11. Doctor Who Earthshock

    James Warwick as Scott and Ann Holloway as Michael in the 'Dr Who' sci-fi adventure 'Earthshock'. 1981

    69 KB

    1980s, tv and radio, images

  12. Elvis Costello

    Elvis Costello performing 'Sweet Dreams' on 'Top of the Pops' 1981

    58 KB

    1980s, music, images