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Exploring the collections

 

Television

By far the largest accessible archive of British television programmes, collected since the late 1950s from participants, collectors and through agreements with broadcasters.

Feature films and short fiction

Our fiction collection has more than 50,000 titles on all types of film and many video formats, from donors all over the world.

Silent film

One of the most extensive collections of early cinema in the world. As well as actively collecting all British film from this era, the Archive has a wide range of early film from Europe and the US.

Non-fiction

With more than 100,000 titles, our non-fiction collection is one of the biggest and most diverse in the world.

Artists’ moving image

An important collection of moving image work from British and international artists dating back to the early 20th century.

Special collections

These world class collections hold unique and diverse film and television-related materials.

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