A vehicle recording device comprising: a video acquisition unit configured to acquire video of a first camera for shooting front or rear of a vehicle and video of a second camera for shooting a range including a lower part of a front, a rear, left and right of the vehicle, wherein the first camera includes a forward camera and a rearward camera which are placed inside the vehicle, and the second camera includes a forward overhead video camera, a rearward overhead video camera, a left side overhead video camera, and a right side overhead video camera for shooting the lower part of the front, rear, left and right of the vehicle, respectively; a motion state acquisition unit configured to acquire a motion state of the vehicle; a recording control unit configured to record the video of the first camera or the video of the second camera based on the motion state of the vehicle; a cutout unit configured to perform cutout processing with a first cutout range and a second cutout range on the video of the second camera acquired by the video acquisition unit, the first cutout range to be used as an overhead video image and the second cutout range at least including an area in a direction further away from the vehicle than the first cutout range is; an overhead video generation unit configured to generate an overhead video image by performing viewpoint conversion and synthesis on the video of the second camera after the cutout processing by the cutout unit when the vehicle is stopping or moving back; a display control unit configured to display the overhead video image based on the video of the second camera cut out with the first cutout range on a display unit when the vehicle is moving back, where the recording control unit records an overhead video image based on the video of the second camera cut out with the second cutout range as data to be recorded when the vehicle is stopping, and records the video of the first camera as data to be recorded when the vehicle is moving, including when the vehicle is moving back. a video acquisition unit configured to acquire video of a first camera for shooting front or rear of a vehicle and video of a second camera for shooting a range including a lower part of a front, a rear, left and right of the vehicle, wherein the first camera includes a forward camera and a rearward camera which are placed inside the vehicle, and the second camera includes a forward overhead video camera, a rearward overhead video camera, a left side overhead video camera, and a right side overhead video camera for shooting the lower part of the front, rear, left and right of the vehicle, respectively; a motion state acquisition unit configured to acquire a motion state of the vehicle; a recording control unit configured to record the video of the first camera or the video of the second camera based on the motion state of the vehicle; a cutout unit configured to perform cutout processing with a first cutout range and a second cutout range on the video of the second camera acquired by the video acquisition unit, the first cutout range to be used as an overhead video image and the second cutout range at least including an area in a direction further away from the vehicle than the first cutout range is; an overhead video generation unit configured to generate an overhead video image by performing viewpoint conversion and synthesis on the video of the second camera after the cutout processing by the cutout unit when the vehicle is stopping or moving back; a display control unit configured to display the overhead video image based on the video of the second camera cut out with the first cutout range on a display unit when the vehicle is moving back, where the recording control unit records an overhead video image based on the video of the second camera cut out with the second cutout range as data to be recorded when the vehicle is stopping, and records the video of the first camera as data to be recorded when the vehicle is moving, including when the vehicle is moving back.