Welcome to British Movietone

British Movietone is arguably the world’s greatest newsreel archive, spanning the period 1895 to 1986. Discover British Movietone’s newsreel archive, which contains many of the world’s enduring images and is rich in coverage of news events, celebrities, sports, music, social history, science, lifestyle and quirky, via this channel. British Movietone also offers a weekly series called ’The Archivist Presents’ where a treasure from the archive is shared by our archivist Jenny and ‘Movietone Moments’, a week