Family films that may have slipped by unnoticed or that were enjoyed many years ago and are worthy of an encore viewing.

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Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Rated G

An amateur witch, along with three precocious orphans, flies into one fantastic adventure after another aboard a bewitched bed to save the country from hostile invaders.


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The Black Stallion (1979)
Rated G

After surviving a shipwreck together, a young boy and a horse develop a bond, and begin training to race once they are rescued.


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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Rated G

An eccentric professor invents wacky machinery, but can’t seem to make ends meet. When he invents a revolutionary car, a foreign government becomes interested in it, and resorts to skulduggery to get their hands on it.


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Fly Away Home (1996)
Rated PG

A young girl goes to live with her father after losing her mother in a car crash. On her father’s farm, she becomes the caretaker of a group of goslings.


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Hook (1991)
Rated PG

Peter Pan said he’d never grow up, but he did. Peter Banning places work before family and has forgotten all about Neverland and the evil Captain Hook until Hook kidnaps the Banning kids. Now Peter must rediscover his youth to save his family.


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The Iron Giant (1999)
Rated PG

A giant robot from outer space lands on Earth and frightens a small town. The robot befriends a young boy and wins its humanity by saving the townspeople from their own fears and prejudices.


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Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Rated G

The legendary Greek hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece.


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Millions (2005)
Rated PG

A young Irish boy finds a bagful of money. He and his older brother have differing views on what to do with the money. What they both discover is that money can cause lots of problems.


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My Dog Skip (2000)
Rated PG

Set in Mississippi in the late 1940s and based on Willie Morris’ boyhood memoirs. Eight-year-old Willie loses his only friend in the world to the draft, until his mother gives him a puppy for his birthday.


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Old Yeller (1957)
Rated G

A boy’s little brother brings home a dog while their parents are away, and at first is displeased, but learns to love the dog. Based on Fred Gipson’s novel.


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Spirited Away (2001)
Rated PG

Chihiro and her parents accidentally wander into another world ruled by witches and monsters. When her parents are captured by the ruler of the world, she tricks the witch into hiring her so she can figure out how to free them.


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Time Bandits (1981)
Rated PG

A young boy is swept into a group of time-traveling dwarves. The dwarves have stolen a map to holes in the space-time continuum in order to loot the past of its riches.


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Zathura (2005)
Rated PG

Two young brothers are drawn into an intergalactic adventure when their house is magically hurtled through space because of the board game they are playing.


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