BBC Motion Gallery brings you easy access to a wide range of unique, high-quality stock video footage. Looking for superb HD stock footage and stock video clips? Rare archival shots you simply can't find anywhere else? It's all here, sourced from some of the most remarkable collections in the world, ready for you to preview, purchase and download immediately.

We're also your gateway to over a million hours of footage offline, and our team of expert researchers will help you find exactly what you need.
BBC Premier Showreel
BBC

Easy access to the best of BBC programming and news over the last 70 years—more than a million hours of motion content.

CBS News
CBS News

The legendary news archive covering every major event and personality of the last 50 years. A BBC Motion Gallery exclusive.

NHK
NHK

A stunning collection of pristine, unique HD native content covering a world of subjects.

BBC Motion Gallery News Archive. 75 Years of unique news footage.
Playback from Universal Music. Thousands of tracks. Fresh. Original. Royalty Free.
A million hours of footage. A story in every frame. Welcome to BBC Archive.

February 2010

Exclusive: The Parkinson Archive

Sir Michael Parkinson's legendary BBC talk show was essential viewing for millions each week. Broadcast on the BBC from 1971 to 1982 and 1998 to 2003, it ran to 361 editions and featured nearly a thousand of the world's most famous people. Now available through BBC Motion Gallery, fully-cleared. Watch the Parkinson showreel or selected highlights.

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'Available As' - How we can supply your content :

Standard (all) - all of our RM Motion Gallery clips are available in standard definition, and can be supplied in both Pal or NTSC format.

Film backed - these clips are available on film as well as VT. Please contact your local sales representative for further details.

HD from film - these clips have been converted from a film source (either 35mm or s16mm) and are readily available as HD VT.

HDi - these clips are available in an interlaced HD format. Please contact your sales representative for further information.

HDp - these clips are available in a progressive HD format. Conversions can be made to interlaced, subject to technical specifications. Please contact your sales representative to discuss.