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
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Search Results
2977 results found
Olympic Marathon
Olympic Marathon, 1940s
2 MB
1940s, sport, audio
Olympic Rowers
Olympic Rowing from 1940s
16 MB
1940s, sport, video
Olympic Rowing
Olympic Rowing, 1940s
3 MB
1940s, sport, audio
Olympic Swimming
The men's 1500m free style final at the Empire Pool, Wembley at the 1948 Olympic Games, held in London. The number boards being displayed show that the competitors have a further 28 laps to go.
56 KB
1940s, sport, images
Rugby Boys
A rugby coach trains young players
54 KB
1940s, sport, images
Speedway
One of the BBC television cameras used to cover the London speedway riders best pairs championship for the Laurels trophy at Wimbledon Stadium.
53 KB
1940s, sport, images
Water Polo
Play at the Italian goal in the water polo match between Italy and Hungary at the Empire Pool, Wembley, during the Fourteenth Modern Olympiad.
65 KB
1940s, sport, images
Wimbledon
Wimbledon, 1940s
2 MB
1940s, sport, audio
Women's Relay
Olympic 400m Women's Relay from 1940s
13 MB
1940s, sport, video
Women's Relay
Women's Relay, 1940s
1 MB
1940s, sport, audio
Young Boxers
Commentator with boxers from the Lynn and Fitzroy Lodge Clubs at Alexandra Palace.
35 KB
1940s, sport, images
Beekeeper
Reginald Gamble, the well known bee-keeping expert, showing viewers the syrup feeder he uses for his bees.
69 KB
1940s, tv and radio, images
