GBH Archives

GBH Archives GBH Archives provides access to historical content produced by the WGBH Educational Foundation. Find out more at americanarchive.org.

The GBH Archives contains video, audio, images, searchable transcripts, and resource management tools, all of which are available for individual and classroom learning. Services include the GBH Stock Sales department for licensing moving image clips, digital images, web content and text from GBH Boston, the leading producer of prime time programs for public television. Our award winning programs i

nclude NOVA, Frontline, American Experience, Masterpiece Theatre, Antiques Roadshow, The French Chef and many more, dating back to the beginning of public television in the 1950s. The GBH Archives is also a steward of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a co-collaboration with the Library of Congress to preserve and make available historic programs from public media organizations across the nation.

10/24/2025

Evening commuters at North Station, Boston in May, 1978.

10/22/2025

Boston garden seen in 1982.

10/21/2025

Shelby Lyman grew up in Boston's Dorchester section and went to Harvard. He learned chess from his uncle Harry Lyman at age 9. Lyman won the Boston city chess championship as a teenager. He hosted a pilot called Shelby Lyman Chess in 1973.

10/18/2025

Route 1 north of Boston seen in June, 1979.

10/18/2025

Willie Alexander is one of many local musicians included in the upcoming feature documentary about the 70s and 80s Boston punk music scene, Life On the Other Planet. Get your tickets for the premiere screening event on Friday Oct. 24th here: https://regenttheatre.com/events/life-on-the-other-planet/

10/16/2025

A 1990s drive to Government Center, Boston.

10/13/2025

Columbus Day in Boston's North End, 1979.

10/11/2025

Downtown Crossing, Boston seen in 1995

10/08/2025

Copley Square, Boston in July, 1984.

10/08/2025

If you like GBHArchives videos seen here, you will also like the film, Life On the Other Planet. This feature doc is a window into the legendary 1970s and 80s Boston local music scene. Some of you may not realize that GBH Archives licenses footage for use in documentaries, feature films and many other uses! Filmmaker Vinny Straggas liked these clips so much that he included many of them in his film. See the Boston premiere at the Regent Theatre in Arlington, MA on October 24th. Special performance by the Nervous Eaters!

10/07/2025

Copley Square, Boston seen in July, 1982.

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