Release Date: 1933-04-08

Overview: The princess is to wed the Prince against her wishes. When she refuses, the king locks her in the tower. Minstrel Mickey sees her and rescues her, making a rope from the clothes of lady-in-waiting Clarabell. The king spots them and prepares to chop off Mickey's head until Minnie intercedes. The king calls for a joust. Mickey wins and they live happily ever after.

Rating: 6.3 (85 votes)

Release Date: 1935-01-05

Overview: The Tortoise and the Hare is an animated short film released on January 5, 1935 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Wilfred Jackson. Based on an Aesop's fable of the same name, The Tortoise and the Hare won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. This cartoon is also believed to be one of the influences for Bugs Bunny.

Rating: 6.634 (187 votes)

Release Date: 1932-12-10

Overview: Santa's little helpers must hurry to finish the toys before Christmas Day.

Rating: 6.543 (163 votes)

Release Date: 1931-12-10

Overview: Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.

Rating: 5.511 (95 votes)

Release Date: 1934-06-08

Overview: Join Donald Duck in his debut in the classic animated short The Wise Little Hen. The Little Hen is planting corn and would like to have help from Peter Pig and Donald Duck, but they refuse stating they each have a "tummy ache." When it comes time to harvest the corn, Peter Pig and Donald still refuse to help the Hen, so she and her chicks do the harvest by themselves. Finally, the hen cooks the corn and offers some to Donald and Peter Pig, but when they look more carefully they discover a surprise.

Rating: 6.519 (105 votes)

Release Date: 1937-11-05

Overview: Night in an old mill is dramatically depicted in this Oscar-winning short in which the frightened occupants, including birds, timid mice, owls, and other creatures try to stay safe and dry as a storm approaches. As the thunderstorm worsens, the mill wheel begins to turn and the whole mill threatens to blow apart until at last the storm subsides.

Rating: 7.336 (207 votes)

Release Date: 1938-11-04

Overview: Donald Duck tries to exhibit his golfing ability to his nephews only to have them tease him with sneezes, noises and "trick" clubs. Finally, they put a grasshopper in a ball and it "jumps" all over.

Rating: 6.1 (62 votes)

Release Date: 1949-09-17

Overview: This was the debut for Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. It was also their only cartoon made in the 1940s. It set the template for the series, in which Wile E. Coyote (here given the ersatz Latin name Carnivorous Vulgaris) tries to catch Roadrunner (Accelleratii Incredibus) through many traps, plans and products, although in this first cartoon not all of the products are yet made by the Acme Corporation.

Rating: 7 (92 votes)

Release Date: 1933-09-16

Overview: The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. A piper offers to do the job, and successfully lures the rats into a mirage of cheese, which disappears. The citizens, disappointed that all he did was play a tune, offer only pocket change. The piper, angered, plays a new tune that has all the children of the city follow him, even the new twins the stork is preparing to deliver.

Rating: 6.4 (63 votes)

Release Date: 1952-06-26

Overview: Water Birds is a 1952 short documentary film directed by Ben Sharpsteen. The film delves into the still waters of lagoons and marshes to the wild blue wilderness of the vast oceans, to experience the beauty and variety of their majestic birds, each perfectly designed for its habitat. It won the Oscar for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel.

Rating: 6.8 (15 votes)

Release Date: 1950-08-11

Overview: Chip and Dale are busy collecting nuts and hiding them in a tree, when Pluto comes along and tries to hide his bone in the same tree. When all of the nuts end up in Pluto's dog house, Chip and Dale must come up with a way to get the nuts back.

Rating: 6.6 (41 votes)

Release Date: 1939-02-24

Overview: After his two brothers are captured, the third little pig invents a machine to capture the big bad wolf.

Rating: 6.6 (35 votes)

Release Date: 1932-08-12

Overview: When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life. Thus begins the romance of Johnny and Luana. Though Luana is promised to another man, Johnny whisks her away, and for a brief time the lovers live very happily together. But, when a local volcano threatens their lives, Luana knows that she must sacrifice herself to the volcanic gods in order to save her island.

Rating: 4.938 (24 votes)

Release Date: 1932-05-25

Overview: Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

Rating: 6.953 (320 votes)

Release Date: 1997-08-29

Overview: A rich brat fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car that gets stolen.

Rating: 6.1 (247 votes)

Release Date: 2006-12-08

Overview: An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.

Rating: 6.598 (296 votes)

Release Date: 1933-05-27

Overview: The two pigs building houses of hay and sticks scoff at their brother, building the brick house. But when the wolf comes around and blows their houses down (after trickery like dressing as a foundling sheep fails), they run to their brother's house. And throughout, they sing the classic song, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?".

Rating: 6.864 (408 votes)

Release Date: 1932-04-09

Overview: In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

Rating: 7.446 (628 votes)

Release Date: 2010-06-17

Overview: When Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly! Day and Night are frightened and suspicious of each other at first, and quickly get off on the wrong foot. But as they discover each other's unique qualities--and come to realize that each of them offers a different window onto the same world-the friendship helps both to gain a new perspective.

Rating: 7.71 (911 votes)

Release Date: 2014-10-25

Overview: This Oscar-winning animated short film tells the story of one man's love life as seen through the eyes of his best friend and dog, Winston, and revealed bite by bite through the meals they share.

Rating: 7.8 (870 votes)