One of the brightest nuggets from Disney's golden age, this 1937 film is almost dizzying in its meticulous construction of an enchanted world, with scores of major and minor characters (including fauna and fowl), each with a distinct identity. When you watch Snow White's intricate, graceful movements of fingers, arms, and head all in one shot, it is not the technical brilliance of Disney's ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Roy Atwell, James MacDonald (II), Marion Darlington, Otis Harlan, Billy Gilbert
Directed By: David Hand

Disney's Classic

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: David Ogden Stiers, Jerry Orbach, Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White
Directed By: Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale

Not an ideal choice for younger kids, this hip and violent animated feature from Disney was nevertheless a huge smash in theaters and on video, and it continues to enjoy life in an acclaimed Broadway production. The story finds a lion cub, son of a king, sent into exile after his father is sabotaged by a rivalrous uncle. The little hero finds his way into the "circle of life" with some new friends ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Moira Kelly
Directed By: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff

Disney's 1959 animated effort was the studio's most ambitious to date, a widescreen spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapting Tchaikovsky. In the 14th century, the malevolent Maleficent (not dissimilar to the wicked Queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) taunts a king that his infant Aurora will fatally prick her finger on a spinning wheel before sundown on her ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy
Directed By: Clyde Geronimi

Groundbreaking on several counts, not the least of which was an innovative use of animation and stereophonic sound, this ambitious Disney feature has lost nothing to time since its release in 1940. Classical music was interpreted by Disney animators, resulting in surreal fantasy and playful escapism. Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra provided the music for eight segments by the ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor, James MacDonald (II), Walt Disney, Julietta Novis
Directed By: Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Ford Beebe, Bill Roberts, Samuel Armstrong

Disney's 1992 animated feature is a triumph of wit and skill. The high-tech artwork and graphics look great, the characters are strong, the familiar story is nicely augmented with an interesting villain (Jafar, voiced by Jonathan Freeman), and there's an incredible hook atop the whole thing: Robin Williams's frantically hilarious vocal performance as Aladdin's genie. Even if one isn't particularly ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman, Frank Welker
Directed By: Ron Clements, John Musker

Imaginatively rendered but slightly chilly, this 1951 Disney adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic is also appropriately surreal. Alice (voiced by Kathryn Beaumont) has all the anticipated experiences: shrinking and growing, meeting the White Rabbit, having tea with the Mad Hatter, etc. Characterization is very strong, and the Disney team worked hard to bring screen personality to Carroll's ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway, Jerry Colonna
Directed By: Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske

Disney's adaptation of the beloved fairy tale became a classic in its own right, thanks to some memorable tunes (including "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes," "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo," and the title song) and some endearingly cute comic relief. We all know the story--the wicked stepmother and stepsisters simply won't have it, this uppity Cinderella thinking she's going to a ball designed to find ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Ilene Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Claire Du Brey, Rhoda Williams
Directed By: Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske

The most revered of all Disney films, SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS is alive with fairy tale magic, heart-pounding suspense, and rousing adventure. Once Snow White's vain stepmother, the wicked Queen, consults her Magic Mirror to learn that her stepdaughter's beauty surpasses her own, the lovely young girl must flee into the forest. There, she meets seven lovable dwarfs: Dopey, Sleepy, Sneezy, ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Roy Atwell, James MacDonald (II), Marion Darlington, Otis Harlan, Billy Gilbert
Directed By: David Hand

From the moment that Prince Eric's ship emerged from the fog in the opening credits it was apparent that Disney had somehow, suddenly recaptured that "magic" that had been dormant for thirty years. In the tale of a headstrong young mermaid who yearns to "spend a day, warm on the sand," Ariel trades her voice to Ursula, the Sea Witch (classically voiced by Pat Carroll), for a pair of legs. Ariel ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Rene Auberjonois, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Jodi Benson, Pat Carroll, Paddi Edwards
Directed By: Ron Clements, John Musker