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Plot Summary:
What begins as a routine class project for a diverse group of sixth-graders turns into a magical, time-traveling adventure they'll never forget! Authentic historical footage of Martin Luther King Jr. is blended with colorful animation as the students learn about - and actually meet - the civil rights leader who challenged all Americans to turn his dream of freedom into reality. Produced in association with the King family, "Our Friend, Martin" features an unprecedented all-star voice cast and a hot hit soundtrack with music performed by top contemporary artists and classic Motown greats. It's a fun, new way for your family to share Dr. King's inspiring message of hope and courage that changed the course of our nation's history.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: semi serious, feel good, stylized, captivating
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Liberty's Kids (2002)
Plot Summary:
Liberty's Kids is an animated educational historical fiction television series produced by DIC Entertainment, originally broadcast on PBS Kids from September 2, 2002 to April 4, 2003, although PBS continued to air reruns until August 2004. The show has since been syndicated by DiC to affiliates of smaller television networks such as The CW and MyNetworkTV and some independent stations so that those stations can fulfill FCC educational and informational requirements. Since September 16, 2006, the series aired on CBS's new block called KOL Secret Slumber Party on CBS, then it was aired on KEWLopolis, which taking September 12, 2009. In 2008 it ran on The History Channel. The series is currently on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV and CBS's Cookie Jar TV. In 2012, Qubo announced the channel will air Liberty's Kids in fall 2012. The series was based on an idea by Kevin O'Donnell and developed for television by Kevin O'Donnell, Robby London, Mike Maliani, and Andy Heyward. Its purpose is to teach its audience of 7 to 14 year olds about the origins of the United States of America. Much like the CBS cartoon mini-series based on Peanuts; This is America, Charlie Brown years before, Liberty's Kids tells of young people in dramas surrounding the major events in the Revolutionary War days. Celebrity voices such as Walter Cronkite, Sylvester Stallone, Ben Stiller, Billy Crystal, Dustin Hoffman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Don Francisco lend credence to characters critical to the forming of a free country, from the Boston Tea Party to the Constitutional Convention.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: educational, captivating, realistic, semi serious, intellectual, period piece, smart, clever
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The Little Engine That Could (2011)
Plot Summary:
Featuring an all-star cast, the timeless story comes to life in this all-new, feature-length film filled with fun and adventure!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: uplifting, feel good, humorous, semi serious, anime, exciting
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Dora the Explorer: Dora's Christmas Carol Adventure (2009)
Plot Summary:
Feliz Navidad! It's Christmas time, but Swiper is up to no good! After he lands on Santa's naughty list, Dora must help the sneaky fox discover the true spirit of Christmas. You can help too as you join Dora in this retelling of a holiday classic!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining, exciting, humorous
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Ben Hur (2003)
Plot Summary:
During the first century A.D., Judah Ben-Hur is a young Hebrew prince who is thrown into slavery by the Romans after a tragic accident. He sets out to win his way back to his home on a heroic journey of discovery. Judah's love for a beautiful slave girl is threatened by the bitter conflict dividing two former friends, and his triumph is set against the backdrop of the historic struggle between a captive people and a mighty empire.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: epic, exciting, uplifting, serious, captivating, christian film
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The Ten Commandments (2007)
Plot Summary:
This vibrantly animated feature recounts the biblical epic of the Hebrew prophet Moses and the Ten Commandments. Led by the word of God, Moses challenges the ominous Egyptian pharaoh, performs miracles and guides the chosen people on a 40-year journey through the desert to free them from captivity and lead them to the Promised Land.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Family, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: biblical, feel good, semi serious, captivating, exciting, light, christian film, anime, independent film, epic
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Ellen's Acres (2007)
Plot Summary:
Ellen's Acres is an American animated television series for preschool-age children, which exclusively premiered weekly on Cartoon Network Video and in the United Kingdom, the show airs on Cartoonito. Animation Collective produces the series. It originally aired on September 29, 2006 on Cartoon Network Video and January 8, 2007 on Tickle U in the United States, airing at 9:30 am ET/PT, but has been pulled from the schedule as of February 5, 2007. The show features a very imaginative five-year old child named Ellen who has adventures in a hotel her parents own approximately 40 miles from Tonopah, Nevada named the Emerald Acres.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: stylized, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, exciting, offbeat
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Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies (2007)
Plot Summary:
Using live-action wildlife films from the National Geographic and the BBC archives, this animated PBS series tells the warmhearted story of an elephant named Mama Mirabelle, who travels the world filming wildlife movies that she shares with her family and friends back home in the African savanna, including her son Max, Bo the cheetah, a zebra named Karla and three monkey brothers -- Kip, Flip, and Chip.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: semi serious, sincere, feel good, captivating
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Frozen in Time (2014)
Plot Summary:
Patty and Eric Purtle visit their Grandfather for Christmas. After accidentally breaking a clock in his workshop, they then find themselves repeating Christmas Eve. together they must fix time and make Christmas enjoyable for their family.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, anime
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The Easter Egg Adventure (2004)
Plot Summary:
The idyllic Egg Town is the location for the The Easter Egg Adventure, which sees the beautiful location under threat from some dastardly thieves. Making off with the collection of Easter Egg's the town has managed to collate, it's up to some brave residents to retrieve them from the evil doers. A wonderfully touching children's tale, The Easter Egg Adventure is a heartwarming seasonal story.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, funny, sweet, anime
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Felix: The Toy Rabbit and the Time Machine (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sophie and her family are visiting the city Museum of Natural Sciences where Prof. Snork is working on a new time machine... Suddenly the whole machine starts to shake and, with a bright flash of light, a tiny mammoth named Woolly and a sea turtle by the name of Gertrude materialize next to Felix! All three of them are then catapulted into a journey through time in which they face prehistoric cavemen and even meet Queen Nefertiti in ancient Egypt. However, the return home will not be easy, as Sophie and Prof. Snork work on getting the machine back to the present. Meanwhile, Felix is hosted by the Vikings, meets a whale, comes to know the peoples of the Native Americas and goes adventuring on a Pacific island. Felix and Wolly even participate in a medieval tournament before returning to the safety of Sophie's arms.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Princess Lillifee and the Little Unicorn (2011)
Plot Summary:
Together with her friends and the unicorns, Princess Lillifee must free the neighboring country Bluetopia from a cold spell, which has covered everything in ice and snow.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating, funny, light, entertaining, sentimental, contemplative
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Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs and a Baby (2008)
Plot Summary:
When the three pigs find a tiny wolf cub on their doorstep, they decide to raise him as their own, unaware that they've played right into the plan of a special-ops team of wolves. As the newest addition to their family, Lucky grows into his teens not knowing his history, his role in the wolves' plan or the difficult choice he will have to make about the family that raised him.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, clever, anime, talky, fairy tale
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Impy's Island (2006)
Plot Summary:
Impy's Island (German: Urmel aus dem Eis) is a 2006 German computer-animated feature film based on the children's novel Urmal from the Ice Age by Max Kruse. On a magical tropical island, a fun-loving group of misfit animals and people make a marvelous discovery.... a baby dinosaur frozen since prehistoric times! Little Impy, as the call him, is loving his new family and ready to explore the strange new world. but when a king from a faraway country vows to capture the love able baby dino for his private collection, all the inhabitants of Impy's island must join together to save their new friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, anime, computer animated, fairy tale
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Mia and the Migoo (2008)
Plot Summary:
One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross continent journey, though mountains and jungles in search of her father, who has been trapped in a landslide at a construction site on a remote tropical lake. In the middle of the lake stands the ancient Tree of Life, watched over by innocent, bumbling forest spirits called the Migoo, who grow and change shape as they please, morphing from small childlike beings to petulant giants. The Migoo have been disrupting the construction to protect this sacred site – and now together with Mia they join in a fight to find Mia’s father and save the Tree, with the future of life on Earth hanging in the balance.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, anime, offbeat
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My Little Pony: The Runaway Rainbow (2006)
Plot Summary:
In this My Little Pony adventure, a horned filly named Rarity is busy learning how to create the first rainbow of the season so that she can become a princess of Unicornia. But before she can learn her lesson, her curiosity lands her far from home.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Bratz Kidz: Sleep-Over Adventure (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a new girl in the neighborhood, named Ginger, invites Jade, Cloe, Sasha, Yasmin and Meagan over to her house for a sleep-over, the girls happily accept the invitation to make a new friend. They have fashion shows and lots of fun stuff. But before they go to bed they tell scary stories. After, the girls try to convince a frightened Ginger to tell the last scary story of the night. Ginger is too frightened to tell and she runs away. The girls look for her and her parents but there no where to be found. The girls find Bats in one of the rooms and run outside. Once they are outside they find out its actually an abandon house supposedly haunted. Then the monsters that they were talking about in the stories come out to life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, computer animated, exciting
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Everybody Loves Goofy (2003)
Plot Summary:
It's nonstop laughs as Goofy, the world's wackiest hound dog, returns in a hilarious collection of his greatest cartoon shorts. The whole family will enjoy Goofy's patented brand of comedy chaos.Travel to the circus as Goofy matches wits with Delores the elephant (guess who wins?) in "The Big Wash," and laugh out loud when the loveable loser leaves his house in shambles after helping out with the household chores in "Father's Day Off." You'll love every minute of Goofy's outrageous antics in this delightful collection, overflowing with the magic of Disney animation.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Princess Stories Volume Two: Tales of Friendship (2005)
Plot Summary:
Now your little princess can enter a world of pure enchantment with DISNEY PRINCESS STORIES VOLUME TWO: TALES OF FRIENDSHIP -- the unique storytelling experience that captures all the wonder of "let's pretend" and puts your child in the middle of the magic, every moment of every day. The fun starts when three delightful tales about the importance of cherishing true friends come alive. Join Jasmine and Ariel as they find excitement and adventure above the clouds and under the sea. Watch Snow White try her best to fix a yummy dinner for her beloved Dwarfs -- with hilarious help from Dopey! As each captivating story unfolds, your child will meet her favorite Disney princesses, share in their fabulous adventures, and discover that friendship is the most powerful magic of all!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Pinocchio (1992)
Plot Summary:
The Little Wooden Toy. The unforgettable story of a little wooden boy who longs with all his heart to become real. When a small spark of magic escapes from the Blue Fairy's home, it travels down toy maker Gepetto's chimney, bringing one small log to life. Then, when Gepetto's toys stop being sold regularly, he decides to make a toy for his own using this same log. Soon, his new wooden puppet is complete, which instantly comes to life getting mixed up in all kinds of troubles. Soon, however, with the guidance of the talking cricket and the Blue Fairy, Pinocchio learns what is needed for him to earn his heart's desire of becoming a real boy. Written by Frederick Irizarry.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, exciting, touching, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, fairy tale
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The Velveteen Rabbit (2009)
Plot Summary:
A lonely boy wins over his distant father and strict grandmother with help from a brave velveteen rabbit whose one wish is to become a real rabbit someday.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, light, anime, fairy tale, humorous, serious, stylized
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Bratz: Super Babyz (2007)
Plot Summary:
When an alien matter-converter machine transforms four baby girls into superheroes, the quartet must learn to work together as a team to fend off the extraterrestrials who are looking for their powerful device. The aliens regain possession of the converter and use it to remove the girls' superpowers, but the friends soon realize they already have plenty of amazing abilities in this entry in the Bratz series of popular animated films.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, exciting, computer animated
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Ploddy the Police Car Makes a Splash (2009)
Plot Summary:
The entire Norwegian police favorite is back! In "Pelle police go in the water" And our dear friend fight with the sneaky environmental criminals Brothers Badger, along with his little friend Oda Otter.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating, anime, exciting, fast, computer animated
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The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze (2001)
Plot Summary:
When the dinosaur families get trapped in a valley by an ice storm, one family of "spike tail" dinosaurs volunteers to leave since they consume more food than the others. Meanwhile, the young dinos and a new adult dinosaur named Mr. Thicknose, head out to bring back their friend Spike, who has left his friends to be with members of his own species.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating, 2d animation
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Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure (2002)
Plot Summary:
Wilbur the pig knows how important friendship is - he learned that from a spider named Charlotte. So when Wilbur meets Cardigan, a lonely lamb, Wilbur immediately makes him his friend.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, inspirational
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Bold Eagles (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the second animation film about Ploddy the Police Car, he stumbles on environmental criminals threatening rare animals when he is to meet the Crown princess. She's there to open a national with a majestic rare breeds of eagles. In the area there's been more and mare animals missing from the wildlife. Now Ploddy has to guard the eggs of the eagle, awaiting the eagle mother to come, while he investigates.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Norway, USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, captivating, light, anime, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, computer animated
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The Strawberry Shortcake Movie: Sky's the Limit (2009)
Plot Summary:
A sudden storm leaves Berry Bitty City with a gigantic problem. Strawberry Shortcake and her friends will have to move their whole tiny town unless they find a way to safely remove a huge boulder that threatens everything they hold dear.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, anime, exciting, sentimental, semi serious
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Care Bears: Oopsy Does It! (2007)
Plot Summary:
While villain Grizzle plots against the Care Bears, it is up to Oopsy Bear to come to their rescue.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: semi serious, feel good, humorous, light, anime, computer animated
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Strawberry Shortcake: The Sweet Dreams Movie (2006)
Plot Summary:
Strawberry Shortcake has a dream of fresh new fields of berry bushes - enough for everyone. But when the greedy Peculiar Purple Pieman rolls into Strawberry Land, he decides to steal Strawberry's dream - and everyone else's dreams too. In order to stop the Purple Pieman and his evil plan, Strawberry and her friends must travel to the Land of Dreams. Along the way, these special friends learn the value of working together to make dreams come true.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, anime, computer animated
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A Cat's Tale (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young domestic "indoor" cat named Marcello escapes from his home one day into the big outdoors to visit "Jujube", a pretty out-door female kitty. Alone for the first time in his short life, Marcello learns to grow up and finds true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, semi serious
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Arthur's Missing Pal (2006)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.When Arthur's dog Pal disappears, Arthur must enlist the help of his friends to track him down. While Pal discovers his newfound freedom, Arthur discovers how much he misses his dog. Good thing Arthur has the gang to turn to--especially his best friend, Buster Baxter who dusts off his old detective gear to get on the case. This canine quest leads Arthur and Buster across Elwood city, deep into the bowels of an ice cream factory, past a giant cow on ice skates, and right up to the point where all hope seems lost. Could the solution to this caper, though, be right in front of Arthur's eyes? And why has DW been acting funny so lately? One thing's for certain, Arthur is determined to get to the bottom of this case. Follow Arthur, Buster, and all their friends through the streets of Elwood City as they sniff out clues and chase after leads...and learn a valuable lesson about friendship, teamwork, and responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, feel good, entertaining, humorous, semi serious