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
The Stranglers
The Stranglers. 1980
82 KB
1980s, music, images
Baker
Baker making bread, 1980
75 KB
1980s, people, images
Barbara Woodhouse
Barbara Woodhouse, 1980
57 KB
1980s, people, images
Cooper Clarke
Punk Poet John Cooper-Clarke in 16 Up a series for teenagers, 1980
54 KB
1980s, people, images
Dinosaur Clean
Cleaning a dinosaur
60 KB
1980s, people, images
Doorman
Alfredo Ivaldi - singing doorman at Kettners Restaurant
42 KB
1980s, people, images
Free To Choose
Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe and Shadow Chancellor Dennis Healey with Milton Friedmann and Peter Jay in Free to Choose, 1980
87 KB
1980s, people, images
Motorbike
A shared moment of tenderness between Willie and Alison, a couple who have shared a rich life together but now face the challenges of an uncertain future as old age approaches.
870 KB
1980s, people, audio
Nixon
Richard Nixon on Panorama, 1980
44 KB
1980s, people, images
Piano Movers
Men moving piano
76 KB
1980s, people, images
Price Rippon
Bernard Price and Angela Rippon admiring the scenery
88 KB
1980s, people, images
School Classroom
Classroom of a school, 1989
37 KB
1980s, people, images