NLS Moving Image Archive
About this Resource
From home movies to documentaries, from industry to entertainment - the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive has something for everyone's local history.
Explore around 100 years of Scotland's history captured by amateur and professional film-makers from all across the country. In the Moving Image Archive catalogue you will find details of thousands of films and videos held at the Library and available to watch online.
Organisation
This resource is held by:Contacts
Resource Details
Resource Type
Primary
Secondary
Online/Digitised
Oral
Sound
Images/Photographs
Film
Catalogued
Meetings/Events
Artefacts
Subject
Agriculture & Horticulture
Archaeology
Architecture, Surveying and Town Planning
Art
Business & Commerce
Crafts
Crofting
Ecclesiastical & Religious
Economic
Education
Emergency Services
Emigration
Fashion
Gaelic
Gender & Women
Genealogy
Gypsy/Travellers
Historic Buildings
Imperial & Colonial
Intellectual/Philosophical
Islands
Manufacturing
Maritime (navy, lighthouses, commercial shipping, and fisheries)
Medicine & Public Health
Military & War
Mining
Monument/Graves
Scots (Scottish dialects)
National Dress
Political & Diplomatic
Science & Technology
Social Movements
Social Work
Sports
Tartan
Television, Media & Film
Textiles
Transport
Tourism
Urban History
Utilities
WWI
WWII
Geographical Coverage
Era
1900 - 1945
1945 - 2000
2000 - present
Access
Open to public: see website for opening hours
Official Records
Entry last updated: April 1st, 2020
Please note that links to websites and catalogues are provided by the Organisations listed and not maintained by Scottish Local History Forum.