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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Clarisse Loughrey

30 best Disney films ranked: From The Jungle Book to Frozen

It’s an almost impossible task to rank Disney films. These are the stories that, in so many instances, helped shape our childhoods.

They’re the VHS copies we wore out from watching and rewatching them, our noses nearly pressed up against the TV in wonder.

We fell in love with these characters, dressed up as them for Halloween, and play-acted their adventures with our friends. And now, perhaps, they’re the films we’ve shared with our children and young relatives. 

Any attempt to pit these films against each other, then, will be filled with favouritism and illogical decision making. But that hasn’t put us off trying. So here is our take on the top 30 Disney films of all time.

NB: this only includes films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, so that means no Pixar films and none of those direct-to-DVD films palmed off to a smaller studio either – not that any of those would ever merit inclusion.

Frozen II is released in UK cinemas on 22 November. 

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