The broad contents of this audiovisual material is as follows: footage of work carried out at the Unit; footage of psychological tests carried out; documentaries and copies of documentaries; commercial or instructional films; lectures; interviews; conference recordings; footage from Open days or Science days; Christmas events and social gatherings; some unidentified and duplicate material.

Film reels include:

- The Television Eye-marker [or The Eye-marker], long silent film by Jane and Norman Mackworth, 1957;
- Time to Re-Act, c. 1960;
- People and traffic / Watching for people and actions, c. 1975 (relates to Alan Tickner and Christopher Poulton, 'Watching for people and actions', Ergonomics 18.1 (1975), pp. 35-51);
- [Ship motion testing], c. 1980 (relates to Peter Mcleod, Christopher Poulton, Howard du Ross and Wynn Lewis, 'The influence of ship motion on manual control skills', Ergonomics 23.7 (1980), pp. 623-634)
- Wind tunnel, c. 1974 (relates to J.C.R. Hunt, E.C. Poulton, J.C. Mumford, 'The effects of wind on people: new criteria based on wind tunnel experiments', Building and environment 11.1 (1976), pp. 15-28)
- M1 Motorway traffic / Road traffic, c. 1968 (relates to Alan Tickner and Christopher Poulton, 'Remote monitoring of motorways using closed-circuit television', Ergonomics 11 (1968), pp. 455-466)
- Serial discrimination (RAF Radar Research Unit)
- With people in mind, 1971
- Louvain [Leuven] trip, 1952
- Work in progress, 1960
- Real time handwriting analysis
- Home Office television experiment, c. 1968 (relates to Alan Tickner and Christopher Poulton’s research on monitoring television screens)
- The time characteristics of human skill, c. 1960
- Symbols, c. 1954
- [Norman Mackworth's vigilance research], early 1950s
- MRC street scenes [visually-impaired testing], c. 1962 (relates to J.A. Leonard, 'Mobility and the blind - a survey', Medical electronics and biological engineering 1 (1963), pp. 465-481)
- [Subject testing - Alan Wing]
- [Medical Research silent], c. early 1960s (possibly relates to Muriel Woodhead’s research into sound and noise)
- Driver Behaviour - driving sequences only, 1967
- Driving tests, c. 1953
- The design of equipment for human use, 1957

Videocassettes include:
- Footage relating to Christmas parties, pantomimes, Reuben Conrad interview (Dec. 2005), Science Day (2008 and 2009), opening of new wing.
- MRC APU legacy conference, 2005, including session-by-session tapes.

VHS video tapes include:
- ‘The CBU-APU videos, 1994-1999'. Recordings of performances produced by the Unit – Bohemian Rhapsody; Everybody in the play; A midsummer night’s dream; Aladdin; A Cambridge Carol; staff video competition.
- ‘With people in mind.’ APU master, 16 Aug. 1994
- APU archive film (edited version), 15 Sept. 1994: ‘With people in mind’; ‘Work in progress’; ‘Eye marker’; ‘Time characteristics of human skill’; ‘Design of equipment for human use’
- First year seminars, 1998, and various talks.