Americas BBC News Live: Millions of hours of footage. Decades of coverage. Endless possibilities.

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From the BBC’s first broadcast in 1922, up to yesterday’s news, BBC Motion Gallery gives you exclusive access to the world’s most comprehensive collection of unique motion imagery. Spanning news, sport, natural history, wildlife, locations, celebrities, culture and more, there is a wealth of content just waiting to be discovered.

There are 100,000+ digitised clips available for online licensing, but that is only the tip of the iceberg. Our text-based research tool puts the BBC Broadcast Archive at your fingertips. You can now easily and quickly explore over a million hours of footage that has defined the television industry as we know it.

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BBC Broadcast Archive

The BBC Broadcast Archive contains millions of hours of broadcast material across all genres. Browse fantastic programming that has educated, informed and entertained for over 70 years. To access this great content, just follow the three simple steps below.

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Search the BBC Broadcast Archive to find more than a million items available for licensing. To keep track of your selections simply add them to your Lightbox.

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