Search results
Our library at BFI Southbank is available to everyone, free of charge. It contains a huge collection of books, journals and digitised material about the world of film, television and the moving image.
- Collections Search
This database contains information collected by the BFI...
- Collections Search
We hold one of the world’s largest and most significant collections of film and television material in the BFI National Archive and the BFI Reuben Library. This includes: 60,000 fiction films, including features, on all gauges of film and formats of videotape.
The BFI National Archive has one of the most important film and TV collections in the world. Choose from a selection of 11,000 titles that cover 120 years of British life, and the history and art of film. Discover the world of cinema with the BFI.
In one of the most remarkable film archive discoveries of all time, over 100 hours of British dramas, long believed destroyed, were unearthed at the Library of Congress.
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. Watch now through BFI Player or on our YouTube channel.
In an unprecedented collaboration between the Library of Congress and British Film Institute (BFI), the two largest archives of film and television in the world, more than 68 rare recordings from 1957 to 1969 will be returned to the United Kingdom.
People also ask
What is the BFI National Archive?
What is the BFI Film Database?
What is the Library of Congress' most remarkable film archive?
What is the BFI Reuben library?
Does BFI Southbank have a library?
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.
