15 Great Kids’ Movies You Can Stream on Disney+

When Disney+ launched on November 12, 2019, parents around the country (including me) rejoiced. Long gone are the days of collecting individual video tapes or DVDs. Now, all it takes to gain access to Disney’s entire catalog is one monthly subscription.

Am I paying for way too many subscriptions right now? Sure, but like the kids’ movies on Amazon Prime, this one has always been worth it. Whether I’m trying to kill time during a day off from school or making the most of a snuggly weekend at home, these are the best kids’ movies on Disney Plus right now that my daughter and I are always excited to watch.

Year: 1998
Runtime: 2h 10min
Director: Nancy Meyers

A remake of a classic that’s become a classic in its own right, this movie is about identical twins (both played by Lindsay Lohan) who don’t know each other exists until they fortuitously meet at summer camp. After camp is over, Hallie, the Californian, and Annie, the Londoner, switch places and scheme to get their parents back together.

Watch on Disney Plus: The Parent Trap

Year: 2015
Runtime: 1h 36min
Director: Pete Docter

An accessible (and delightful!) depiction of our feelings and how we all handle change, Inside Out follows the story of Riley as she moves from the Midwest to San Francisco for her dad’s job. However, the real adventure starts when her Emotions—Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness—disagree on how to best Riley during this major transition.

Watch on Disney Plus: Inside Out

Year: 2018
Runtime: 1h 51min
Director: Marc Forster

If your kids liked Winnie the Pooh when they were younger, they’ll love accompanying the beloved bear out of the Hundred Acre Woods and into the real world. All grown up with a career and family, Christopher Robin is surprised when Pooh shows up out of nowhere needing help reuniting with his friends, Tigger, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Rabbit, Kanga, and Roo. After, they realize that Christopher needs help too, and head to London to remind him of the joy of life.

Watch on Disney Plus: Christopher Robin

Year: 2017
Runtime: 1h 46min
Director: Lee Unkrich

12-year-old Miguel is an aspiring guitarist, but his family’s generations-old ban on music is stronger than his dreams. After accidentally finding himself in the Land of the Dead, he meets his deceased family and a trickster named Héctor, who help him return to the Land of the Living and reverse the ban on music.

Watch on Disney Plus: Coco

Year: 1987
Runtime: 1h 39min
Director: Rob Reiner

The kind of fairytale the whole family will be enamored by, join Westley, a poor farmhand, as he overcomes obstacles and meets new friends on his mission to rescue Princess Buttercup, his true love, from evil Prince Humperdinck. The Princess Bride is a cult classic based on a story of the same name that offers a little bit of everything: wit, adventure, romance, friendship, and comedy.

Watch on Disney Plus: The Princess Bride

Year: 2016
Runtime: 1h 52min
Director: John Musker, Ron Clements

Inspired by Polynesian mythology, Moana is the teenage daughter of a chief chosen by the ocean to save her people from an ancient curse. This adventure requires locating a demigod named Maui, and once she finds him, the two set sail on the ultimate voyage, confronting all kinds of seemingly impossible challenges.

Watch on Disney Plus: Moana

Year: 1993
Runtime: 1h 42min
Director: David Mickey Evans

When Scotty Smalls moves to the neighborhood, a young baseball prodigy takes him under his wing and invites him to play with the other boys. Needing a baseball for their game, Smalls borrows one signed by Babe Ruth from his stepdad—and then it gets hit over a fence into the yard of “the Beast.” The boys have to work together to get it back, resulting in all kinds of chaos.

Watch on Disney Plus: The Sandlot

Year: 2015
Runtime: 1h 35min
Director: Peter Sohn

Taking place in a world where dinosaurs never became extinct, this heartwarming film is about a shy Apatosaurus named Arlo who lives on a farm with his parents and two siblings. When a rainstorm washes him miles downriver, he meets a Neanderthal boy named Spot who joins him on his journey home. 

Watch on Disney Plus: The Good Dinosaur

Year: 1998
Runtime: 1h 40min
Director: John Lasseter

A Bug’s Life, which draws inspiration from Aesop’s fable The Ant and the Grasshopper, stars an outsider ant named Flik who enlists the help of a troupe of Circus Bugs to save his colony from a gang of grasshoppers. Endlessly quotable, this is the kind of movie that all ages can appreciate for different reasons.

Watch on Disney Plus: A Bug’s Life

Year: 1993
Runtime: 1h 39min
Director: Jon Turteltaub

Originally intended to be a sports drama, this technically-based-on-a-true-story comedy is about four sprinters who, after losing their chance to attend the Summer Olympics, attempt to compete in the Winter Olympics as Jamaica’s first-ever bobsled team. The word “technically” is used because this is where the similarities between fiction and reality end: Everything else is changed or made up, but this does nothing to detract from how charming and uplifting the film is.

Watch on Disney Plus: Cool Runnings

Year: 1993
Runtime: 2h 6min
Director: Chris Columbus

An example of Robin Williams doing what he does best, Mrs. Doubtfire is about a divorced dad who poses as an older British nanny in order to spend more time with his children. It’s a film your whole family will love, laugh-out-loud funny and dysfunctional in all the best ways.

Watch on Disney Plus: Mrs. Doubtfire

Year: 2009
Runtime: 1h 37min
Director: Pete Docter

Carl Fredricksen becomes the ultimate curmudgeon following the death of his wife, Ellie. After accidentally injuring a construction worker and being ordered to move into an assisted living facility, he decides to fulfill their lifelong dream of moving their house to Paradise Falls—by tying thousands of balloons on it, of course. He quickly discovers that Russell, a young scout trying to earn his final merit badge (assisting the elderly), has accidentally made himself a stowaway, which is just the beginning of all the setbacks to come on his journey. 

Watch on Disney Plus: Up

Year: 1997
Runtime: 1h 26min
Director: Robert Iscove

Though there are many film adaptations of Cinderella out there, this one stands out with its cast including the likes of Whitney Houston, Brandy, Whoopi Goldberg, and Bernadette Peters. The live television special has a campy quality that makes it all the more magnetic, and you’ll all be humming “Impossible” for days after watching.

Watch on Disney Plus: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella

Year: 2014
Runtime: 1h 49min
Director: Don Hall, Chris Williams

An inflatable healthcare robot with a whole lot of heart, Baymax is the brainchild of robotics prodigy Tadashi. After Tadashi dies in a fire, his brother Hiro—a prodigy in his own right—reactivates Baymax and the two inadvertently discover the truth behind the tragedy. From there, they enlist the help of Hiro’s other friends to defeat the supervillain responsible for Tadahi’s death.

Watch on Disney Plus: Big Hero 6

Year: 2007
Runtime: 1h 52min
Director: Brad Bird

There’s nothing chefs despise more than a rat in a kitchen, but all Remy—a rodent—wants to do is become a chef himself. In order to fulfill his dream of cooking at Auguste Gusteau’s restaurant, he develops a friendship with the garbage boy Alfredo Linguini. Of course, while improving his skills, his presence still has to remain a secret, and this is where the comedy really begins.

Watch on Disney Plus: Ratatouille