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The New York Times 100 Children's Films

Rating System | 1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Title Year H D Director
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1954 6 6 Richard Fleischer
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 5 5 Charles T Barton
The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 6 7 Michael Curtiz & William Keighley
The African Queen 1951 7 7 John Huston
Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard
Babe 1995 Chris Noonan
Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis
The Bad News Bears 1976 Michael Ritchie
The Bear 1988 Jean-Jacques Annaud
Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
Beetlejuice 1988 7 7 Tim Burton
Big 1988 Penny Marshall
The Black Stallion 1979 Carroll Ballard
Bound for Glory 1976 Hal Ashby
Breaking Away 1979 Peter Yates
Bringing Up Baby 1938 7 7 Howard Hawks
The Buddy Holly Story 1978 Steve Rash
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill
Casablanca 1942 7 7 Michael Curtiz
Cat Ballou 1965 5 7 Elliot Silverstein
Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson
Chicken Run 2000 Peter Lord & Nick Park
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 7 7 Steven Spielberg
The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 7 7 Robert Wise
Dick Tracy 1990 Warren Beatty
Dr Strangelove 1964 7 7 Stanley Kubrick
Duck Soup 1933 6 5 Leo McCarey
Edward Scissorhands 1990 7 7 Tim Burton
Emma 1996 Douglas McGrath
ET: The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg
Fiddler on the Roof 1971 Norman Jewison
Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson
Fly Away Home 1996 Carroll Ballard
Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough
Ghostbusters 1984 7 7 Ivan Reitman
The Gold Rush 1925 7 7 Charles Chaplin
The Great Escape 1963 7 7 John Sturges
Great Expectations 1946 David Lean
Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis
A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001 7 6 Chris Columbus
High Noon 1952 7 7 Fred Zinnemann
The Iron Giant 1999 7 7 Brad Bird
It Happened One Night 1934 7 7 Frank Capra
James and the Giant Peach 1996 Henry Selick
Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg
The King and I 1956 Walter Lang
King Kong 1933 7 7 Merion C Cooper & Ernest B Schoedsack
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean
A League of Their Own 1992 Penny Marshall
Lilo & Stitch 2002 6 Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders
The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff
Little Fugitive 1953 Morris Engel, Ray Ashley & Ruth Orkin
Little Man Tate 1991 Jodie Foster
The Little Mermaid 1989 John Musker & Ron Clements
A Little Princess 1995 Alfonso Cuaron
Little Women 1994 Gillian Armstrong
The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton & Bernhard Wicki
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson
Lost Horizon 1937 6 6 Frank Capra
The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges
Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson
Monsters, Inc 2001 Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich & David Silverman
Mr Smith Goes to Washington 1939 7 7 Frank Capra
Mrs Doubtfire 1993 Chris Columbus
The Music Man 1962 Morton DaCosta
My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor
National Velvet 1944 Clarence Brown
Never Cry Wolf 1983 Carroll Ballard
North By Northwest 1959 6 6 Alfred Hitchcock
Peter Pan 1953 Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson
Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen
The Princess Bride 1987 6 7 Rob Reiner
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 7 7 Steven Spielberg
Rear Window 1954 7 7 Alfred Hitchcock
Rocky 1987 John Avildsen
The Rookie 2002 John Lee Hancock
The Secret Garden 1993 Agnieszka Holland
The Secret of Roan Inish 1994 John Sayles
Shane 1953 7 George Stevens
Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson
Singin' in the Rain 1952 7 7 Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand
Some Like It Hot 1959 7 7 Billy Wilder
The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise
Spirited Away 2001 7 7