Video Nation is a BBC television project in social anthropology and audience interactivity, which ended in 2011.
The original project was created by the Community Programme Unit with output intended for broadcast on BBC Two.
A diverse group of fifty people were selected from across the UK, given training in the use of camcorders and invited to record aspects of everyday life during the course of a year.
BBC Two de-commissioned the television series in 2000 at which point a website was built from the existing archive.
Hundreds of contributors then went on to make shorts for the site, and Video Nation has returned to BBC TV screens during thematic seasons.