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. Concorde First Flight

    Concordge first flight, 1960s

    1 MB

    1960s, events, audio

  2. JFK Assasination

    Announcement of the assassination of JFK in 1963

    33 MB

    1960s, events, video

  3. JFK Assasination

    JFK assassination, 1960s

    3 MB

    1960s, events, audio

  4. Moon Landing

    The Moon landing, 1969

    8 MB

    1960s, events, video

  5. Moon Landing

    Moon Landon, 1960s

    823 KB

    1960s, events, audio

  6. Welshfloods

    Floods in Wales and Hereford. 1960

    11 MB

    1960s, events, video

  7. Yuri Gagarin

    Yuri Gagarin, first man in space, interviewed in London in July 1961

    32 MB

    1960s, events, video

  8. Yuri Gagarin

    Yuri Gagarin, 1960s

    2 MB

    1960s, events, audio

  9. Aston Martin

    Luigi Grosso inspecting an Aston Martin DB 4 Coupe GT at the 1960 London Motor Show.

    45 KB

    1960s, leisure, images

  10. Ballroom Dancers

    A Modern Section Quickstep Couple. This inter regional dancing heat held at the Orchid Ballroom, Purley featured contestants from North and South London.

    40 KB

    1960s, leisure, images

  11. Boys Swimming

    Izhar Kazmi interviewing pupils from the Haberdashers Askes School in London during a swimming lesson.

    50 KB

    1960s, leisure, images

  12. Car Share

    Car share, 1960s

    460 KB

    1960s, leisure, audio