Children's & Family Theatre
Enjoy your journey down the yellow brick road and into the wondrous world of family films. Children's and family-oriented films are often suitable for all age groups, and cover a wide range of genre categories (comedy, adventure, fantasy, musicals, etc.).
There are several category choices with something to entertain the little ones or the whole darn family. For the younger ones click on 'Pre-School Entertainment' in green on the left. 'Disney Animation', 'Family Animation' and 'Classic Animation' can be accessed via the 'Animation' link further up the menu.
Pictured: 'The Wizard of Oz', one of the best-loved family films of all time.
Robin Hood (Disney) (1973)
6.7/10
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Starring: Voices Of, Brian Bedford, Phil Harris, Peter Ustinov, Terry-Thomas
Disney's animated version of the legend casts Robin as a fox battling the evil wolf sheriff of Nottingham for freedom in Sherwood Forest. Peter Ustin... Read more
Snoopy, Come Home (1972)
7.5/10
Director: Bill Melendez
Small Dogs. Big Secrets. When America's most beloved beagle suddenly goes missing, the whole Peanuts gang bands together to bring him back home in thi... Read more
Treasure Island (1972)
6/10
Director: John Hough
Starring: Orson Welles, Walter Slezak, Lionel Stander, Maria Rohm, Kim Burfield, Paul Mull...
Orson Welles is Long John Silver in this 1972 adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic pirate tale. Young Jim Hawkins comes into possession of... Read more
The Biscuit Eater (1972)
5.9/10
Director: Vincent McEveety
Starring: Earl Holliman, Lew Ayres, Beah Richards, Johnny Whitaker
Kids and dogs go hand in hand, and in the tradition of "Old Yeller" and "Big Red", Disney filmmakers capture the adventure, drama and humour of two bo... Read more
Tintin: Mystery of Shark Lake ( aka Tintin and the Lake of Sharks ) (1972)
7.3/10
Director: Raymond Leblanc
Starring: Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, Snowy, Tintin
Aka "Tintin et le Lac aux Requins". Someone is stealing priceless works of art from museums and replacing them with excellent forgeries. Meanwhile, fo... Read more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
5.8/10
Director: William Sterling
Starring: Fiona Fullerton, Michael Crawford, Peter Sellers, Ralph Richardson, Flora Robson...
Journey through the looking glass with Lewis Carrols plucky heroine and encounter the White Rabbit, The Mad Hatter and all of Wonderlans wondrous resi... Read more
Charlotte's Web (1972)
6.3/10
Director: Charles Nichols, Iwao Takamoto
Starring: Agnes Moorehead, Debbie Reynolds, Henry Gibson, Paul Lynde
One of the enduring children's films, this is a story of friendship and salvation, with Charlotte the spider trying to save her friend Wilbur the pig... Read more
Tom Brown's Schooldays (TV Series) (1971)
7.6/10
Starring: Richard Morant, Richard Gibson, Iain Cuthbertson, Simon Fisher-Turner, Anthony M...
1971 adaptation of Thomas Hughes' novel. Anthony Murphy stars as Tom Brown who, as a new boy at Rugby Public School, has to contend with the school's... Read more
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ( Blu-ray ) (1971)
4.4/10
Director: Mel Stuart
Starring: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole
One of the most memorably strange children's films ever made, equally influenced by the dark underpinnings of Roald Dahl's original book ("Charlie and... Read more
Follyfoot: Series 1 (1971)
8.3/10
Director: Michael Apted, Stephen Frears, Vic Hughes
Starring: Gillian Blake, Steve Hodson, Arthur English, Christian Rodska, Desmond Llewelyn
Based on Monica Dickens' 1963 novel 'Cobbler's Dream', the series was set in a horse sanctuary and often dealt with the way horses were poorly treated... Read more