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
Cycle Sprint
Cycle Sprint, 1940s
2 MB
1940s, sport, audio
Doubles Rowing
Doubles Rowing, 1940s
1 MB
1940s, sport, audio
London Olympics
London Olympics, 1940s
1 MB
1940s, sport, audio
Marathon
Olympic Marathon from 1940s
26 MB
1940s, sport, video
Motorcycle Race
Grass track riders getting away to a good start in front of a television camera during a BBC outside broadcast from Brands Hatch grass track.
67 KB
1940s, sport, images
Motor Racing
B Bira (Maserati) who led for the first 20 laps in a car race.
43 KB
1940s, sport, images
Motor Racing Pit Stop
B Bira (Maserati) in a pit stop
77 KB
1940s, sport, images
Olympic Commentators
The BBC commentators position by the Empire Pool at Wembley.
65 KB
1940s, sport, images
Olympic Double Sculls
Olympic Double Sculls from 1940s
14 MB
1940s, sport, video
Olympic Football
The football final between Sweden and Bulgaria at the Empire Stadium, Wembley.
52 KB
1940s, sport, images
Olympic Gymnast
Members of the British Olympic Team of Gymnasts practicing on the high bar in Hyde Park for the 1948 Olympic Games held in London.
42 KB
1940s, sport, images
Olympic Gymnast Park
Members of the British Olympic Team of Gymnasts practicing on the high bar in Hyde Park for the 1948 Olympic Games held in London.
50 KB
1940s, sport, images
