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Welcome to BBC Archive

You're about to experience one of the most extensive content resources in the world. From this part of our site you can search over 1 million hours of footage, representing 70 years of the best of the BBC, CBS News and many other leading collections.

Here you will find rare clips, news items and television programmes, including thorough details of each. You can use Clip Bins to easily save your selected items, share them with colleagues or send them to BBC Motion Gallery for follow-up. We'll help you through the entire process — it's easy and fast.

BBC Archive is one of the great media treasures, full of incredible content just waiting to be discovered and only recently opened up to share with the world.

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Barack Obama

CBS News

Cultural Leaders

Natural Disasters

Nelson Mandela

UK Politics

Untitled Bin

How it works

First, find the catalogue items you're interested in. Then email your list using BBC Archive's Workbook to our sales team, who will then contact you to explain licensing terms and arrange delivery of available screening materials.

Our team is ready to help you with any research or questions you might have.

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