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All things Disney movies!
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items This list is about the time frame and eras of the Disney movies! Obviously I do not have ALL of the Disney movies as it would be over hundreds of titles. So i am breaking them all up into multiple lists.
Sections
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Golden Age 1937 - 1942
The Wartime/Package Era 1943 - 1949
The Silver Age 1950 - 1967
The Bronze/Dark Age 1970 - 1988
The Renaissance Age 1989 - 1999
Post - Renaissance Age 2000- 2009
Golden Age 1937 - 1942
The foundational masterworks produced under Walt Disney's direct supervision that established the studio's storytelling formula
Got to start off with the first ever disney movie! Snow White! For those who don't know what snow white is, here is a description! - A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of Seven Dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as the fairest in the land, and Snow White’s beauty surpasses her ...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Next up is Pinocchio! - A wooden puppet is brought to life by the Blue Fairy, with the promise he can become a real boy if he earns it. He is led astray by the wicked Honest John and his companion, Gideon, who turn him over to an evil puppeteer, Stromboli. Pinocchio is sent...
Pinocchio
This one was a little bit tricky to pick the pictures for as the i also the 2000's version. - Fantasia (film) One of the most highly regarded of the Disney classics, a symphonic concert with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, embellished by Disney animation. Directed by Samuel Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterf...
Fantasia
Dumbo was such a cute movie. and i think my favorite song from that is “ Baby mine”! - A baby circus elephant is born with huge ears, and named Dumbo. He and his mother suffer humiliation from the other elephants and from the kids visiting the circus. But humiliation turns to triumph as Dumbo is surprised to discover through the help o...
Dumbo
I bet there is no one in the world who has seen this movie and not cried during THE scene… - Life story of a fawn, Bambi, who grows up, with friends Thumper, the rabbit, and Flower, the skunk, to be the Great Prince of the Forest. But in the meantime he suffers through the death of his mother at the hand of hunters, falls in love with Faline...
Bambi (1942)
The Wartime/Package Era 1943 - 1949
Budget-constrained and WWII-impacted package films consisting of multiple shorter segments grouped together
- Animated feature film about Latin America, made up of four animated segments tied together by live-action footage of the activities of Walt Disney and his artists on their trip. The segments are Lake Titicaca, chronicling Donald’s exploration of the...
Saludos Amigos - Disney Wiki - Fandom
- Three Caballeros, The (film) Four short films on Latin America, in a story about Donald Duck receiving birthday gifts from his Latin American amigos, José Carioca, the parrot, and Panchito, the Mexican charro rooster. He unwraps a 16mm projector and ...
The Three Caballeros - Disney Wiki - Fandom
So, i've never even heard of this movie until now. But it looks like it will be something i will have to watch! - Ten shorts are combined in a tuneful compilation. Disney’s first postwar “package” picture, produced because financial problems prevented Walt Disney from finding enough money to create a full animated feature. By tying a group of shorts together, h...
Make Mine Music (1946)
- Jiminy Cricket begins the film by playing a Dinah Shore record that tells the tale of Bongo to cheer up a desolate-looking doll and bear. Bongo, a circus bear, meets and falls in love with a girl bear named Lulubelle. But first he must confront a be...
Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
- An animation/live-action feature consisting of seven sequences: (1) Once Upon a Wintertime, sung by Frances Langford, tells of a winter romance by both human and bunny couples sleighing and skating in the 1800s; (2) Bumble Boogie, played by Freddy M...
Melody Time (1948)
- The film begins in a library with actor Basil Rathbone telling the tale of The Wind in the Willows (from the book by Kenneth Grahame), about Mr. Toad, Squire of Toad Hall, whose love for transportation vehicles was insatiable. His friends, Rat, Mole,...
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
The Silver Age 1950 - 1967
A triumphant return to traditional fairy-tale narratives and rich, soft-art styling; the final era overseen by Walt Disney
Ah Cinderella! What a classic!! - Animated feature; the famous rags-to-riches tale of a beautiful girl reduced to being a servant by her jealous Stepmother and Stepsisters, Anastasia and Drizella. With the help of a bit of magic by her Fairy Godmother, Cinderella is given a beautifu...
Cinderella
“I'm late. I'm late for a very important date!” - Animated version of Lewis Carroll’s famous story of Alice and her adventures after falling down a rabbit hole. Following a White Rabbit, she meets such strange creatures as a talking doorknob, who helps her through a keyhole into Wonderland, Tweedled...
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
"2nd star to the right and straight on until morning!" - Story of the magical boy who wouldn’t grow up who teaches the three Darling children—Wendy, John, and Michael—to fly to Never Land with him where they embark on adventures with the chief inhabitants, Captain Hook and his crew of pirates. The fairy, T...
Peter Pan
Of all the movies in this Era, i love this one the most! - Lady, a young cocker spaniel from a respectable home, falls in love with Tramp, a mutt who lives in the railroad yards. They enjoy several outings together, including a memorable spaghetti dinner by moonlight at Tony’s, but their relationship is stra...
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- In spectacular style, the film recounts the simple story of Princess Aurora, who is cursed by the evil fairy Maleficent to die before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday by pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. Despite the loving...
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Of this Era, this is my 2nd favorite movie!! - Animated feature about Pongo, a clever Dalmatian, who arranges to get married to the female of his choice, Perdita, and to round things out, gets his master, Roger Radcliff wed to Perdita’s pretty mistress, Anita. Soon Perdita produces 15 puppies, w...
Disney's 101 Dalmatians
There were some bits in this that i just love! - An animated feature, set in the medieval era at a time when the English king dies leaving no heir. In the churchyard of a cathedral in London a sword appears imbedded in a stone, inscribed: “Who so pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is r...
The Sword in the Stone | Watch on Disney+
- A human boy, Mowgli, is raised in the jungle by wolves until it is deemed unsafe for him to stay because of Shere Khan, the tiger, who has vowed to kill the mancub. Bagheera, the panther, is selected to accompany Mowgli on his journey back to civiliz...
The Jungle Book (1967)
The Bronze/Dark Age 1970 - 1988
A transitional period following Walt Disney’s passing marked by studio restructuring, darker themes, and experimentation
- Animated feature in which a pedigreed mother cat, Duchess, and her three kittens, Toulouse, Berlioz, and Marie, are catnapped by a greedy butler named Edgar who hopes to gain by getting the inheritance left to the family of cats by their owner, Madam...
The Aristocats (1970)
He steals from the rich and gives to the poor! - Story of England’s legendary hero of the common people is told by traveling minstrel Allan-a-Dale. The story is enacted by an assortment of cartoon animal characters (Robin Hood and Maid Marian are foxes, Little John is a bear, King Richard and Prin...
Robin Hood (1973)
You can never get too tired of watching this Honey obsessed cutie bear and his friends in the hundred acre wood!
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
- The Rescue Aid Society, an international organization of mice with headquarters in the basement of the United Nations building, receives a plea for help from a little orphan girl named Penny. Penny has been kidnapped by an evil woman, Madame Medusa,...
The Rescuers (1977)
This is another movie that does not leave a dry eye in the house! - The animated story of two friends who didn’t know they were supposed to be enemies. Tod, an orphaned baby fox, raised by Widow Tweed, is best friends with Copper, a young hunting dog. When they grow up, Copper learns to hunt and discovers he must pu...
The Fox and the Hound (1981)
I still need to watch this movie. - The Story of young Taran, a pig keeper, who attempts to rescue his clairvoyant pig, Hen Wen, from the Horned King’s castle. The King tries to get Hen Wen to lead him to the mysterious Black Cauldron. Taran escapes with a young princess and a minstre...
The Black Cauldron (1985)
- The (film) Animated adventures of a mouse, Basil of Baker Street, who is called upon to search for a toy maker, Flaversham, who has been kidnapped to make a robot replica of the queen for the evil Ratigan. Basil, aided by the intrepid Dr. Dawson, he...
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
I still have envy of that poodle and her lifestyle! - The Oliver Twist story animated with a twist—the setting is New York and Oliver is a kitten and Fagin the human master of a pack of pickpocket dogs. When a wealthy little girl from Fifth Avenue finds Oliver and takes him uptown to live in her mansion...
Oliver & Company (1988)
The Renaissance Age 1989 - 1999
Not trying to be Biased or anything, but this is my favorite Era/Age! With my favorite movie! - A massive commercial and critical rebirth featuring Broadway-style musical structures, fairy-tale adaptations, and dominant box-office performance.
“I want to be.. Where the people are! I wanna see, wanna see them dancing! Walking around on ‘ What do you call them? Oh! Feet! Hmm Hmm!’ ” - Animated tale of a beautiful young mermaid, Ariel, who is fascinated by the human world, to the dismay of her father, King Triton. She spies Prince Eric and falls hopelessly in love. Sebastian the crab is sent by the king to keep an eye on Ariel, tho...
The Little Mermaid (1989)
I love every single movie in this Era! This movie has got to be my second favorite! Sorry Gaston, I'm gonna have to say “No” to you! haha! - The beautiful Belle ignores her suitor, the vain Gaston, as she cares for her father, the eccentric Maurice. When Maurice stumbles upon a foreboding castle while lost in the woods, the servants, enchanted into household objects, try to make him welc...
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
When you think of Aladdin, you cant help but think of the joy Robin Williams and everyone on that cast and crew brought to this film! - nimated feature about a street-smart young thief in the mythical city of Agrabah who meets and falls in love with the Sultan’s beautiful daughter, Jasmine, a liberated young lady who seeks to escape her present lifestyle. Help comes when the evil viz...
Aladdin (1992 Disney film)
My FAVORITE!!!!! I will always love and cherish this movie so much! “Oh i just cant wait to be king!” I even sang these songs (in my head of course) when i was on a safari in Africa in 2025! - A young lion cub, Simba, struggles to find his place in nature’s “circle of life” and follow in the regal paw prints of his father, the great King Mufasa, after his father is killed by his treacherous uncle, Scar. Scar convinces Simba that he is res...
The Lion King (1994)
“Dishonor! Dishonor on your whole family! Dishonor on you! Dishonor on your Cow!” “Why don't you say that to my face you limp noodle!” - Based on a 2,000-year-old Chinese folktale, this animated feature is the story of a high-spirited girl who tries hard to please her parents and be the perfect daughter, but who feels that she is always disappointing them. When Mulan’s aged father is...
Mulan (1998)
- in Australia, the young Cody discovers that evil Percival McLeach has captured the magnificent eagle, Marahute. He manages to set her free only to be kidnapped himself, and later to see her recaptured. A frantic call for help goes out to the Rescue ...
The Rescuers Down Under | Watch on Disney+
“You think you own whatever land you land on. The earth is just a dead thing you can claim. But I know every rock and tree and creature, Has a life, has a spirit, has a name.” - The first Disney animated feature based on historical fact (somewhat), Pocahontas tells the story of the meeting of the English settlers in Jamestown with the local tribe of Powhatan Indians. The adventurous young Native American woman, Pocahontas, a...
Pocahontas
- The tale of Quasimodo, the lonely outsider who longs to be out in the world beyond his bell tower in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. Defying the orders of his evil surrogate father, Minister of Justice Frollo, the frightened hunchback journeys ...
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
“So you wanna be a hero kid, well, whoop di doo. I've been around the block before with blockheads just like you.” I think we can all agree that there is only 1 person to ever be Philoctetes, and that is Mr. Danny Devito! - Hercules, the mighty son of Zeus and Hera, is taken from his Mount Olympus home and raised on Earth. The fiery figure behind Hercules’s disappearance is Hades, the hot-headed god of the Underworld who has grown tired of looking after a “bunch of dea...
Hercules (1997)
“Come stop your crying, it will be alright. Just take my hand. Hold it tight. I will protect you from all around you. I will be here, don't you cry.” - from the classic tale by Edgar Rice Burroughs, this animated feature traces the story of a baby who is orphaned in the African jungle and raised by a family of gorillas, led by Kerchak and his mate, Kala. Tarzan matures into a young man with all the ...
Tarzan
Post - Renaissance Age 2000- 2009
Shifting audience interests, experiments with hybrid CGI/traditional styles, and deep dives into sci-fi before fully transitioning to digital animation.
- A new generation of Disney animators showcase their talents as they visually interpret classical compositions. Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven features abstract visions of color, shape, and light; Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Al...
Fantasia 2000 (1999)
This is one of the few disney movies i have never gotten around to watching. Which is odd for this one, since i like watching Dinosaur movies! - During the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago, a three-ton iguanodon named Aladar is raised by a clan of lemurs and eventually reunited with his own kind. With flaming meteors devastating the landscape and water in diminishing supply, the dinos...
Dinosaur Trailer
“Pull the lever Kronk. WRONG LEVER….” “YOU THREW OFF MY GROOVE… I'm sorry, but you threw off the Emperors Groove”. So many funny quotes from this hilarious movie! - In a mythical mountain kingdom, arrogant young Emperor Kuzco is transformed into a llama by his power-hungry adviser—the devious diva Yzma. Stranded in the jungle, Kuzco’s only chance to get back home and reclaim the high life rests with a good-hear...
The Emperor's New Groove | Watch on Disney+
Every time i think of this movie, i always remember that i won 2 tickets to see this movie before anyone else the day before its official theater release! It was just me and my mom in that theater! - In 1914, an inexperienced young museum cartographer and linguistics expert, Milo Thatch, joins up with a group of daredevil explorers in an expedition funded by an eccentric billionaire, Preston B. Whitmore, to find the legendary lost empire of Atlan...
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
“Ohana means family. and family means No one gets left behind or forgotten.” - On the Hawaiian Islands, a lonely little girl, Lilo, adopts what she thinks is a dog. She names her pet Stitch, completely unaware that he is a dangerous genetic experiment gone awry who has escaped from an alien planet. Stitch’s only interest in Lil...
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
“ this year, i lost my dear husband Edgar.” “Quit telling everyone i'm dead.” “sometimes i can still hear his voice!” - Set in the Pacific Northwest after the last Ice Age, this animated film tells the tale of three Native American brothers; Sitka, the eldest, Denahi, and Kenai, the youngest. After Sitka is accidentally killed by a bear, Kenai sets out on a quest of v...
Brother Bear (2003)
- A greedy outlaw named Alameda Slim schemes to take possession of the Patch of Heaven dairy farm from its kindly owner, Pearl. Unwilling to stand by and see their idyllic way of life threatened, three determined cows—Mrs. Caloway, Maggie, and Grace, ...
Home on the Range (2004)
- Computer-animated feature that presents a new twist to the classic fable of a young chicken who causes widespread panic when he mistakes a falling acorn for a piece of the sky. Chicken Little is determined to restore his reputation, but just as thin...
Chicken Little (2005)
“I have a big head. and little arms. I'm just not sure how well this plan was thought through.” “Bake them cookies Lucille!” - A CG-animated feature. Lewis is a brilliant twelve-year-old with a surprising number of clever inventions to his credit. His latest and most ambitious project is the Memory Scanner, which he hopes will retrieve early memories of his mother and maybe...
Meet the Robinsons | Watch on Disney+
For super-dog Bolt, every day is filled with adventure, danger, and intrigue—at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventu...
Bolt
The Revival Era 2010 - 2018
A return to classic fairy-tale formulas paired with modern CGI techniques, achieving historic commercial milestones
What i love about this movie is how Tiana knew what she wanted and worked hard to get it! I also liked how love and friendship went beyond social class and skin pigmentation! - Animated feature film. Tiana, a young African-American girl, is living amid the charming elegance and grandeur of the French Quarter of New Orleans in this musical set in the legendary birthplace of jazz. Her lifelong goal is to own her own restaura...
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
My favorites from this movie are Pascal, Maximus and Flynn Ryder! - A princess stolen from her parents’ castle as a baby, Rapunzel is locked away for years in a hidden tower. When the kingdom’s most wanted—and most charming—bandit, Flynn Rider, hides out in her tower, he’s taken hostage by Rapunzel, now a beautiful ...
Tangled (2010)
- Animated feature film released in the U.S. on July 15, 2011, after an April 6, 2011, release in Belgium. Pooh wakes up absolutely famished and he happens to have no honey, so he sets out on a journey which is ultimately derailed by a search to repla...
Winnie the Pooh | Watch on Disney+
“ I'M GONNA WRECK IT!” - Animated feature released on November 2, 2012, in Disney Digital 3D. Wreck-It Ralph longs to be as beloved as his arcade game’s perfect Good Guy, Fix-It Felix. The problem is that nobody loves a Bad Guy. But they do love heroes, so when a modern, fi...
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
“Winter is a good time to stay in nd cuddle. but put me in summer and i'll be a………….. Happy Snowman!” - Animated feature. Fearless optimist, the Princess Anna, sets off on an epic journey—teaming up with rugged mountain man, Kristoff, and his loyal reindeer Sven—to find her sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal ...
Frozen (2013)
I just love this movie so much! - 107 min. An adventurous teenager, Moana, sails out on a daring mission to save her people. During her journey, she meets the once-mighty demigod Maui, who guides her in her quest to become a master wayfinder. Together they sail across the open ocean,...
Moana (2016)
- An action comedy adventure from Walt Disney Animation Studios about brilliant robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who finds himself in the grips of a criminal plot that threatens to destroy the fast-paced, high-tech city of San Fransokyo. With the help of...
Big Hero 6 | Watch on Disney+
- Wreck-It Ralph and Vanellope van Schweetz leave the video arcade behind to venture into the uncharted, expansive, and thrilling world of the Internet. They risk it all in a search of a replacement part to save Vanellope’s video game, Sugar Rush.
Ralph Breaks the Internet | Watch on Disney+
- Animated feature. Why was Elsa born with magical powers? What truths about the past await Elsa as she ventures into the unknown, to the enchanted forests and dark seas beyond Arendelle? The answers are calling her but also threatening her kingdom. T...
Frozen 2
The Modern/ Streaming Era 2019 - present
Deep integration with Disney+ releases, highly diverse cultural settings, and continued exploration of advanced animation pipelines
- Animated journey to the fantasy world of Kumandra, where humans and dragons lived together long ago in harmony. But when an evil force (the Druun) threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, that sam...
Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)
When this came out, i had every song stuck in my head every day and I wanted to watch this on repeat! - Animated feature. The Madrigal family lives hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift...
Disney's Encanto
- Action-adventure feature from Walt Disney Animation Studios. A legendary family of explorers, the Clades, attempts to navigate an uncharted, treacherous land alongside a motley crew that includes a mischievous blob, a three-legged dog, and a slew of...
Strange World (2022)
This was a great movie! - A young girl wishes on a star and gets a more direct answer than she bargained for when a trouble-making star comes down from the sky to join her.
Wish (2023)