Subgenre Sampler
Family: 1842 Films to Buy & Rent
All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
- Dir. Don Bluth
- From Disney renegade Don Bluth comes the slightly off–beat animated adventures of a rascal dog called Charlie.
Angel and the Soldier Boy (1989)
- Dir. Alison de Vere
- Charming story about a little girl's toy soldier and angel, who try to recover her piggy–bank savings, stolen while she was asleep by wicked…
Babar (TV Series) (75th Anniversary Collection) (1989)
- Excellent Anniversary Collection featuring 14 Babar episodes across three discs.
Babar: The Movie (1989)
- Dir. Alan Bunce
- Feature–length animated antics of the lovable, wise and courageous King of Elephantland, who defends his folk from the evil Rhinos.
Bear, The (1989)
- Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Feat. Jack Wallace, Tcheky Karyo
- Shot in the Canadian mountains, this follows the unique story of an orphaned bear cub, the Grizzly who befriends him and the two hunters who try to…
Beetle Bailey (1989)
- Latterday remake of the 1960s TV series based on Mort Walker's classic cartoon character: a recalcitrant WW2 private who devises unlimited ways to…
BFG, The (Big Friendly Giant) (1989)
- Dir. Brian Cosgrove
- Animated as a telemovie this version of Roald Dahl's story is commendable is a little stiff. Concerns the adventures of orpahn Sophie who is abducted…
Butter Battle Book (1989)
- Dir. Ralph Bakshi
Feat. Charles Durning
- Ralph Bakshi animates the Dr. Suess favourite about the ridiculously trivial feud between the Yooks and the Zooks.
Cheetah (1989)
- Dir. Jeff Blyth
Feat. Keith Coogan
- Bored American teenagers in Kenya befriend a Masai boy and together they attempt to raise an orphaned cheetah cub. Battles with a gang of poachers…
Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian (1989)
- Dir. Alex Kirby
Feat. Richard Dempsey, Johnathon R. Scott, Sophie Cook…
- Fine BBC production of the C.S. Lewis fantasy tale. This second part of the saga sees Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy return to the enchanted land of…