Wessex Film and Sound Archive collection

Our catalogue includes video and sound recordings from a variety of sources, each offering a unique insight into the region’s past.

The Wessex Film and Sound Archive YouTube channel features some of our wonderful archive films and sounds recordings online.

View films on YouTube

Video still of a family celebrating an event

Celebrations
Video still image on men in the trenches

Conflict
Friends sitting on the sand

Events
Old steam train in motion

Planes, trains and automobiles
Political parade

Politics and ceremony
Car and house in the rural countryside

Rural life
Teenagers sitting at their school desks

School days
Families on the beach

Seaside
Man helping people out of an air raid shelter

Towns and cities
Filmmaker Eda Moore with her camera

Women filmmakers

Explore the catalogue

You can search over 1 million records in the Archives catalogue, or explore some curated catalogue entries:

two women sat down talking

Black archives catalogue entries
Little girl at party

Hampshire colour film catalogue entries
Old Brockenhurst road sign

New Forest catalogue entries
People at the seaside

Seaside catalogue entries
Filmmaker Eda Moore with her camera

Women filmmakers catalogue entries
Soldiers marching up Winchester High Street

WW2 on Film