Relive your childhood with these Disney classics

All of your childhood favourites are now available whenever and wherever you want thanks to Disney+.

A number of these classics are ready to stream with a tap for the very first time – here are just a few you can watch right now (with many more coming soon).

Walt Disney was reportedly 15 years old when he resolved to bring this Brothers Grimm’s fairy tale to the silver screen. Twenty years later, it became his first full-length animated film, one whose songs, characters and colours are just as bewitching today as they were in 1937.

Fun fact: The film received a special Academy Award in 1939 consisting of one full-size Oscar and seven smaller ones.

With its mix of cutting-edge animation and classical music, Fantasia is unlike anything else in the Disney catalogue. The dramatic and soaring Sorcerer’s Apprentice remains the signature piece, but sections dedicated to The Nutcracker Suite, Ave Maria and The Rite of Spring still enchant.

Fun fact: When Fantasia debuted in 1940, a full production of the Nutcracker ballet had yet to be staged in the United States.

At the time, Bambi was a departure for the studio: its tone was a little more serious, and because its characters were all animals (unlike Dumbo and Pinocchio, which preceded it), animators spent a great deal of time studying animal movements and behaviours. Bambi remains one of the sweetest titles in the Disney universe.

Fun fact: There are only about 1,000 words of dialogue in the film.

Following the success of Cinderella in 1950, Walt Disney wanted to bring Sleeping Beauty to the silver screen in epic form.

The result remains one of the signature achievements of Disney animation, full of rich characters, lush settings and the definition of a fairy-tale ending. “Sleeping Beauty,” Walt said in 1959, “is the most beautiful film we have ever made.”

Fun fact: Briar Rose/Princess Aurora appears in fewer than 18 minutes of the film’s 76-minute run time.

Walt Disney was quite the dog lover, so it’s no surprise this classic comedy-meets-spy-thriller still feels so special. 101 Dalmatians was a technical challenge: according to Disney, nearly 6.5 million spots dance across the film’s 113,760 frames.

Fun fact: In the classic ‘Twilight Bark’ sequence, characters from Lady and the Tramp, including one lady in particular, make cameo appearances.

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