Top 100 Children’s Movies

The New York Times recently released The New York Times Essential Library: Children’s Movies
which lists their top 100 movies for kids. This is excellent timing as we’ve been trying to move
beyond the animated Disney movies. I haven’t bought the book yet, but this is a good list for
rentals at least.

• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
• The African Queen (1951)
• Apollo 13 (1995)
• Babe (1995)
• Back to the Future (1985)
• The Bad News Bears (1976)
• The Bear (1988)
• Beauty and the Beast (1991)
• Beetlejuice (1988)
• Big (1988)
• The Black Stallion (1979)
• Bound for Glory (1976)
• Breaking Away (1979)
• Bringing Up Baby (1938)
• The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Cat Ballou (1965)
• Chariots of Fire (1981)
• Chicken Run (2000)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
• Dick Tracy (1990)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• Duck Soup (1933)
• Edward Scissorhands (1990)
• Emma (1996)
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
• Field of Dreams (1989)
• Fly Away Home (1996)
• Gandhi (1982)
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• The Gold Rush (1925)
• The Great Escape (1963)
• Great Expectations (1946)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)
• High Noon (1952)
• The Iron Giant (1999)
• It Happened One Night (1934)
• James and the Giant Peach (1996)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• The King and I (1956)
• King Kong (1933)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• A League of Their Own (1992)
• Lilo & Stitch (2002)
• The Lion King (1994)
• Little Fugitive (1953)
• Little Man Tate (1991)
• The Little Mermaid (1989)
• A Little Princess (1995)
• Little Women (1994)
• The Longest Day (1962)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
• Lost Horizon (1937)
• The Magnificent Seven (1960)
• Mary Poppins (1964)
• Monsters, Inc. (2001)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
• The Music Man (1962)
• My Fair Lady (1964)
• National Velvet (1944)
• Never Cry Wolf (1983)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• Peter Pan (1953)
• Pinocchio (1940)
• The Princess Bride (1987)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• Rear Window (1954)
• Rocky (1976)
• The Rookie (2002)
• The Secret Garden (1993)
• The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
• Shane (1953)
• Shrek (2001)
• Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• The Sound of Music (1965)
• Spirited Away (2001)
• Star Wars (1977)
• Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
• Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
• Superman (1978)
• Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
• The Three Musketeers (1974)
• The Four Musketeers (1975)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
• Toy Story (1995)
• Toy Story 2 (1999)
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
• Walkabout (1971)
• West Side Story (1961)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
• The Winslow Boy (1999)
• The Wizard of Oz (1939)
• Yellow Submarine (1968)