The BFI National Archive and BFI Reuben Library collections include:
- 60,000 fiction films, including features, on all gauges of film and formats of videotape.
- 120,000 non-fiction films, broadly tracing the history of the use of the moving image in non-fictional settings and for non-fiction purposes.
- An estimated 750,000 television titles, mostly from off-air recordings as seen by the viewer, as well as production and transmission material.
- Audio and video recordings of Parliamentary proceedings (Lords, Commons and Committees).
- 30,000 unpublished scripts, from first drafts to release scripts, mainly relating to British and American film and TV titles.
- 30,000 pressbooks and 2000 items of cinema ephemera, such as programmes, tickets, autographed letters, promotional material and personal memorabilia.
- 15,000 posters.
- 600 collections of personal and company papers reflecting the history of British film and television production from the earliest days to the present.
- 1 million still images from or related to films and television programmes, including publicity material, production shots and portraits.
- 3000 production and costume designs.
- 3000 animation cels.
- 51,000 books.
- 7000 journal titles, trade and academic, including many hundreds of thousands of volumes and issues.
- 1 million periodical article citations.
- 4 million newspaper cuttings.