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BBC Motion Gallery

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BBC Motion Gallery is a collection of over thirty thousand clips spanning seventy years which are available as downloads. Users can search, download, edit, and use footage in showreels, resumes, and competition entries.

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Subject Areas

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Health and Life Sciences
  • Science, Engineering and Technology
  • Social Sciences

The main subject areas for this resource are news, sport, history, lifestyle, travel, science and technology, and the natural world.

Academic Levels

  • Undergraduate
  • Postgraduate
  • Research
  • AS/A Level / Scottish Higher National
  • Diploma
  • Vocational

Resource Types

  • digital film
  • databases
  • news media

Further information

This resource is updated weekly.

Huntley film archive: 1890 to present.
BBC film archive: 1930 to present.

Content is updated weekly with around two hundred and fifty new clips.