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
Six Penny Doctor
Doctors and Nurses from 1955
4 MB
1950s, people, video
Queen Visit
The Queen & Duke of Edinburgh visited two British Council centres in London on the occasion of the Council's 21st anniversary. 1955
6 MB
1950s, events, video
Premiere 1
Crowds gathered outside London's Leicester Square Theatre for the premiere of Sir Laurence Olivier's film Richard III. Many famous people were there - Bob Hope, Claire Bloom, Vivien Leigh and John Mills. 1955
14 MB
1950s, events, video
Premiere 2
Crowds gathered outside London's Leicester Square Theatre for the premiere of Sir Laurence Olivier's film Richard III. Many famous people were there - Bob Hope, Claire Bloom, Vivien Leigh and John Mills. 1955
16 MB
1950s, events, video
WH Smiths
WH Smith, Victoria Station, 1956
67 KB
1950s, people, images
Larry The Lamb
The Toy Town Adventures Of Larry The Lamb, 1956
94 KB
1950s, tv and radio, images
Boatrace
BBC reporters gathered to report on the annual Oxford v Cambridge boat race, 1956
64 KB
1950s, people, images
Danny Purches
Danny Purches, the ''Singing Gypsy'' who takes part in BBC sound and television programmes.
46 KB
1950s, music, images
Dancing To Elvis
People dancing in 1956
7 MB
1950s, leisure, video
Jiving
Teddy boys jiving from 1956
4 MB
1950s, leisure, video
Zooquest
Zoo Quest' - Borneo, from 1956, featuring a young David Attenborough
28 MB
1950s, tv and radio, video
Vera Lynn
Vera Lynn, 1956
51 KB
1950s, music, images
