1) Peter Pan
An adaptation of J. M. Barrie's story about a boy who never grew up. The three children of the Darling family receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Land, where an ongoing war between Peter's gang of rag-tag runaways and the evil Pirate Captain Hook is taking place.
Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, 2 more credits »
Writers: J.M. Barrie (play) (as Sir James M. Barrie) , Ted Sears (story), 7 more credits »
Stars: Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1953
2) Mary Poppins
The movie combines songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writers: Bill Walsh (screenplay), Don DaGradi(screenplay) (as Don Da Gradi) , 1 more credit »
Stars: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1964
3) The Parent Trap
Hayley Mills plays twins who, unknown to their divorced parents, meet at a summer camp. Products of single parent households, they switch places (surprise!) so as to meet the parent they never knew, and then contrive to reunite them.
Director: David Swift
Writers: Erich Kästner (based on the book: "Das doppelte Lottchen"), David Swift (written for the screen by)
Stars: Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1961
4) Dumbo
The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs. Jumbo, veteran of the circus, but the newborn is ridiculed because of his truly enormous ears and dubbed "Dumbo". After being separated from his mother, Dumbo is relegated to the circus' clown acts; it is up to his only friend, a mouse, to assist Dumbo to achieve his full potential.
Directors: Samuel Armstrong (as Sam Armstrong) ,Norman Ferguson, 5 more credits »
Writers: Joe Grant (screen story), Dick Huemer (screen story), 8 more credits »
Stars: Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy, James Baskett |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1941
5) Remember the Titans
Suburban Virginia schools have been segregated for generations, in sight of the Washington Monument over the river in the nation's capital. One Black and one White high school are closed and the students sent to T.C. Williams High School under federal mandate to integrate. The year is seen through the eyes of the football team where the man hired to coach the Black school is made head coach over the highly successful white coach. Based on the actual events of 1971, the team becomes the unifying symbol for the community as the boys and the adults learn to depend on and trust each other.
Director: Boaz Yakin
Writer: Gregory Allen Howard
Stars: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris |See full cast and crew »
Released: 2000
6) The Emperor's New Groove
In this animated comedy from the folks at Disney, the vain and cocky Emperor Kuzco is a very busy man. Besides maintaining his "groove", and firing his suspicious administrator, Yzma; he's also planning to build a new waterpark just for himself for his birthday. However, this means destroying one of the villages in his kingdom. Meanwhile, Yzma is hatching a plan to get revenge and usurp the throne. But, in a botched assassination courtesy of Yzma's right-hand man, Kronk, Kuzco is magically transformed into a llama. Now, Kuzco finds himself the property of Pacha, a lowly llama herder whose home is ground zero for the water park. Upon discovering the llama's true self, Pacha offers to help resolve the Emperor's problem and regain his throne, only if he promises to move his water park.
Director: Mark Dindal
Writers: Chris Williams (story), Mark Dindal (story), 10 more credits »
Stars: David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt |See full cast and crew »
Released: 2000
7) Sleeping Beauty
Adaptation of the fairy tale of the same name. Princess Aurora is cursed by the evil witch Maleficent - who declares that before Aurora reaches her 16th birthday she will die by pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning-wheel. To try to prevent this, the king places her into hiding, in the care of three good-natured - but not too bright - fairies.
Director: Clyde Geronimi
Writers: Erdman Penner (story), Charles Perrault (story),6 more credits »
Stars: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1959
8) James and the Giant Peach
James' happy life at the English seaside is rudely ended when his parents are killed by a rhinoceros and he goes to live with his two horrid aunts. Daringly saving the life of a spider he comes into possession of magic boiled crocodile tongues, after which an enormous peach starts to grow in the garden. Venturing inside he meets not only the spider but a number of new friends including a ladybug and a centipede who help him with his plan to try and get to New York.
Director: Henry Selick
Writers: Roald Dahl (based on the book by), Karey Kirkpatrick (screenplay), 2 more credits »
Stars: Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley, Pete Postlethwaite |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1996
9) Tarzan
The movie is about the life of Tarzan. Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he's human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to...
Directors: Chris Buck, Kevin Lima
Writers: Tab Murphy (screenplay), Bob Tzudiker(screenplay), 23 more credits »
Stars: Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Brian Blessed |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1999
10) Finding Nemo
A clown fish named Marlin lives in the Great Barrier Reef loses his son, Nemo. After he ventures into the open sea, despite his father's constant warnings about many of the ocean's dangers. Nemo is abducted by a boat and netted up and sent to a dentist's office in Sydney. So, while Marlin ventures off to try to retrieve Nemo, Marlin meets a fish named Dory, a blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss. The companions travel a great distance, encountering various dangerous sea creatures such as sharks, anglerfish and jellyfish, in order to rescue Nemo from the dentist's office, which is situated by Sydney Harbor. While the two are doing this, Nemo and the other sea animals in the dentist's fish tank plot a way to return to Sydney Harbor to live their lives free again.
Directors: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
Writers: Andrew Stanton (original story by), Andrew Stanton (screenplay), 2 more credits »
Stars: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould |See full cast and crew »
Released: 2003
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