💰 Money's Too Tight: Commercial Value of Archives – Experts Roundtable Discussion 📈 Experts will explore how audiovisual archives can communicate their commercial value within organisations, balancing their role as a cost center with their potential to generate financial returns.

Breakaway Femmes (2025) For six glorious years during the 1980s, a women's Tour de France was held alongside the men's race - their story is finally being told Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDWC... #documentary #ArchiveStories

Meet the shortlisted nominees for the Excellence in Media Management category of the 2025 FIAT/IFTA Archive Achievement Awards!

Today on BBC4.. I Am Martin Parr 📸 Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate and exclusive road trip with a photographer whose work has revolutionised contemporary photography #documentary #ArchiveStories

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Coming up this month, a Royal Television Society discussion on the use of AI in UK television production.. "AI tools are reshaping how shows are developed, pitched, produced, and polished."

The Yin & Yang of Gerry Lopez (2022) A riveting, archive-based portrait of "Mr Pipeline", one the most influential surfers and surfboard shapers of all time, whose story is told in full for the first time 🎬 Dir. Stacy Peralta @patagonia.com #documentary #surfing #ArchiveStories

Hillary: Ocean to Sky (2019) Sir Edmund Hillary and a team of adventurers journey by jetboat and foot up the 1,500 mile length of India's sacred River Ganges. Featuring remastered and unseen archive #footage and interviews with crew members from the 1977 expedition #documentary #ArchiveStories

A YouTube Education "I have learned an awful lot on YouTube over the years" #documentary #ArchiveStories

The BFI National Archive in the 1960s #ArchiveStories

In an age of streaming clutter, why not rediscover Britain’s rich documentary past? #TelevisionArchives #ArchiveStories

My 80-year-old aunt told me she "got tired of streaming" and is borrowing DVDs from her library again. So I checked it out and they have an amazing selection. Blu-rays too, from Criterion, Kino Lorber and other boutique labels. #PhysicalMedia #FilmSky

Old Content, New Cash 💰 How to improve your archive revenue stream.. #YouTube #ArchiveStories

On this day, 20 August in 1980, South Tyrolian (Italian) climber Reinhold Messner became the FIRST-EVER human to have climbed to the summit of Mt #Everest (8848.86 m) SOLO WITHOUT BOTTLED OXYGEN. Photo ©: Reinhold Messner Archives.

An exhibition at Staunch Industries in Leith features work by six of the best surf photographers in Scotland 📸 🏄 Each one tells a story behind an image in this great article by @outdoorscots.bsky.social @scotsman.com #photography #surfing #ArchiveStories

Orangeburg: A Town, a Team, an American Tragedy (2019) Jim Fabio's film remembers one of America’s most horrific tragedies of the Civil Rights Movement - the 1968 shooting of student protesters on the campus of South Carolina State College #documentary #SocialHistory #ArchiveStories

We are happy to welcome two new members to FIAT/IFTA’s Value, Use and Copyright Commission: Agnieszka Wolak (FINA) and Maha Alzayani (Saudi Film Commission) Welcome! 🌟

🧶 A new film from Historic England tells the story behind the hand-knitted jumpers once worn by local fishermen in Polperro and passed down through generations Part of the Missing Pieces project historicengland.org.uk/listing/miss... #documentary #Cornwall #SocialHistory #ArchiveStories

@pbs.org has always had excellent documentary series... whether they include me or not. Haha! www.pbs.org/video/pionee...

Looking for ways to discuss the 'Hidden Histories of Exploration' with students studying geography at university? This resource examines how to use materials from our collections to run a workshop on local knowledge and Indigenous agency in the history of exploration 👉 www.rgs.org/research...

Cino, Ian! (2019) Using testimonies and archive images, this poignant short film looks at the friendship between Alpine guide and photographer Renzino Cosson and mountaineer Giorgio Bertone (1942-77), the first Italians to conquer El Capitan's north face #documentary #ArchiveStories

Sally (2025) In 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to blast off into space, but beneath her unflappable composure, she carried a secret. Her life partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy, tells the full story of this complicated and iconic astronaut for the first time. #documentary #ArchiveStories

Fit for TV (2025) In this inside look at the making of the hit weight-loss competition show, former contestants and producers reveal the intense, damaging reality behind the success of "The Biggest Loser" which launched on TV in 2004 #documentary #ArchiveStories

After forming in August 1970 a new club took it's place in the French Ligue 2 for the 1970-71 season- Paris Saint-Germain. They started life with a 1-1 draw away at Poitiers with Bernard Guignedoux slamming in a free-kick for their first-ever league goal. #PSG

In the latest news post from the BFI National Archive, a much-needed video and audio audit, and a special crowdsourcing event designed to enhance the BFI’s data and knowledge of copyright in the collections.. 🕵️ #ArchiveStories

From the UK's North West Film Archive.. The Calling Blighty series of short films, made between 1944 and 1946, shows servicemen (and a very few women) in the Far East recording a message to be watched by their families and friends #History #WorldWarII #ArchiveStories

Everest: The Hard Way (2020) In 1988 four Slovak climbers attempted the impossible: tackling Mount Everest's most challenging route in Alpine style 🏔️ #mountaineering #documentary #ArchiveStories

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Alfred Hitchcock's, North by Northwest (1959) Title sequence design by Saul Bass Music by Bernard Herrmann.

28 years ago, South Park first premiered on Comedy Central!

Lost Wolves of Yellowstone fka Mollie’s Pack (2025) The challenges, triumphs and impacts of reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995 are explored using previously lost 16mm archival #footage and in-depth interviews 🎬 Dir. Thomas Winston #wildlife #documentary #ArchiveStories

When Desmond Dekker's rude boy anthem '007' became a global hit, Perry Henzell filmed the group performing in Jamaica The #footage aired on the BBC's #TOTP in Aug 1967, and the promo film now serves as both a record of the band and a historical document of 1960s Kingston #MusicSky #ArchiveStories

Dale Webster, aka "The Daily Wavester", who surfed for 14,642 days straight (40 years without missing a session), has died www.surfer.com/news/dale-we... Filmmaker Dana Brown highlighted Webster in his 2003 #documentary 'Step Into Liquid' www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-y5... #Surfing #ArchiveStories

Amsterdam Narcos (2025) How the cultural city turned into the drug capital of Europe from the 1970s to the early 2000s #documentary #TrueCrime #ArchiveStories

Kamikaze: An Untold History (2025) During World War II, Japan's kamikaze attacks on US Pacific ships killed nearly 4,000 Japanese and 7,000 American soldiers Takayuki Oshima's powerful #documentary tells the story of these devastating missions #History #ArchiveStories

DJ Mehdi - Made in France (2024) From rap to electro, the extraordinary musical journey of the visionary composer, producer, and DJ who died in 2011, exploring his impact on the 1990s-2000s music scenes through rare #footage #documentary series by Thibaut de Longeville #MusicSky #ArchiveStories

Mrs Robinson (2024) With extraordinary access to its subject, revealing interviews and fascinating archive, this is the inspirational life story of change-maker Mary Robinson: Ireland's first female President #documentary #Eire #ArchiveStories

You can watch the full 47-minute 2010 interview with Biddy Baxter talking about her life and TV career - complete with transcript - here at the 'Connected Histories of the BBC' site created at @sussex.ac.uk connectedhistoriesofthebbc.org/play/?id=418

Gorillaz celebrate their 25th anniversary as a band by launching ‘House of Kong’ – a new exhibition in London… #MusicSky #ArchiveStories

Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood held its 53rd(!) annual Fiesta del Sol last weekend! Here are scenes from the 1988 iteration, excerpted from a silent 16mm reel in our Susan Dobinsky Collection. Watch the whole film here: collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objec...

We are sorry to hear about the death of acclaimed Irish documentary filmmaker #GeorgeMorrison www.rte.ie/news/ireland... In 2018, Morrison donated his archive to @nlireland.bsky.social. The archive reflects a career spanning more than sixty years and shows a remarkable commitment to Irish film. 🎥

Today the NFPF announced the 81 films and collections to be preserved in 2025, including an amateur version of Snow White (1945) by Knoxville, TN filmmaker Mildred Keister Dennis. Read more here: www.filmpreservation.org/blog/2025/8/5/81-films-to-be-preserved-by-2025-nfpf-preservation-grants

Hidden industrial heritage uncovers city’s history #archivestories

🎥 Media Management Seminar 2025: Vol. 2 is out! Each Friday, from now until August 29th, we’ll be sharing 3 new sessions from the FIAT/IFTA Media Management Seminar 2025 on our website and YouTube channel. 🔗 Watch now: fiatifta.org/media-manage...

Did you know, we're called 'Northbound' because of how often we travel 'back north' after working away. We love working all over, but we're especially proud of our northern roots and our commitment to championing the north 💫 #YorkshireDay

📚 Hidden from view, among the "mega-sheds" and supply chain businesses of Northamptonshire, there is no hint of the historical wonders inside. #ArchiveStories

In the winter of 1988, on a break from shooting DEAD POETS SOCIETY, seven of the young actors from the film traveled into New York City, 5 of them auditioning for the same role in the Jack Lemmon film DAD. The other two brought a video camera. I live for this stuff.

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.