Subgenre Sampler
Family > Animation: 734 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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.
- 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.
- Dink the Little Dinosaur (1989)
- A recent creation from the Hanna–Barbera stable. Dink and his prehistoric pals brave it against the perils of Mother Nature over five episodes.
- Little Mermaid, The (1989)
- Dir. Ron Clements, John Musker
- A modern Disney animated musical blessed with a wonderful score and a touching story.
Based loosely on Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale, a…
- Magical World of Margaret Mahy, The (1989)
- Dir. Euan Frizzell
- Five stories from New Zealand’s premier children’s writer gets nicely animated – “Keeping House”, “The Three–Legged Cat”, “The…
- Simpsons, The (TV Series) (1989)
- Dir. Various
- Fun at home with Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson – the definitve animated American family, in the iconic TV series of the 1990s has…
- Wallace and Gromit Collection (Grand Day Out, The Wrong Tousers, A Close Shave, A Matter of Loaf and Death) (1989-1995)
- Dir. Nick Park
Feat. Peter Sallis
- Four classic "Wallace and Gromit" short films on two discs disc. Cracking.