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The BFI National Archive preserves and showcases one of the largest and most important collections of film and television in the world. You can explore, watch, license, book or research the archive online or at its venues.
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The BFI National Archive contains a huge collection of. film. television. still images. posters and design. audio recordings. books and journals. personal papers. Use the collections search database to find what you’re looking for.
The BFI archive contains nearly a million films, TV programmes and clips of historical footage. Thousands of these titles have been converted to digital format so you can stream them instantly and for free, wherever you are.
This database contains information collected by the BFI since 1933. It holds over 800,000 film titles – including television programmes, documentaries, newsreels, as well as educational and training films – and is updated daily.
Explore archive films. See shorts and features, showing the best from the BFI, national and regional archives - including 120 years of Britain on film.
The BFI National Archive is a department of the British Film Institute, and one of the largest film archives in the world. It was founded as the National Film Library in 1935; its first curator was Ernest Lindgren.
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The majority of the collection is British material but it also features internationally significant holdings from around the world. The archive contains more than 50,000 fiction films, over...