A Century of Disney

The Walt Disney Company turns 100 in 2023. Look back at its best animated movies with our anniversary series, A Century of Disney.

A Century of Disney

Cinderella’s 4K restoration team says her colors have been all wrong for decades

Most of us grew up with a copy of a copy of a copy of the 1950 animated original

By Petrana Radulovic

A Century of Disney

Disney’s hottest animated animal characters, ranked

And the scientific explanation for thinking they’re sexy

By Caroline Madden

Disney’s animated book-to-film adaptations, ranked by faithfulness to the source

By Chris Wheatley June 20

Disney’s weirdest villain lived and died as a pipe organ

By Petrana Radulovic June 13

A Century of Disney

Walt Disney is the ultimate problematic fave

Disney made their founder into an icon, while critics made him into a Nazi — but the truth is more complex

By Sarah Milner June 12

Ariel was always a role model, but the live-action Little Mermaid makes her stronger

By Caroline Madden May 30

A Century of Disney

Walt Disney cheated his animators out of profits — and their strike changed the world

The Disney animators’ strike of 1941 was a game-changer for animation — and it paved the way for the WGA strike

By Toussaint Egan May 29

A Century of Disney

Disney’s Robin Hood is still a life-changing furry phenomenon

Here’s why it’s such a beloved standard, even with many more anthropomorphic animal movies out there

By Josh Spiegel May 16

Disney Princesses, ranked by how well they’d survive the real world

By Barry Levitt May 9

9 of the weirdest, most persistent Disney conspiracy theories

By Chris Wheatley May 2

A Century of Disney

101 things that must be said about 101 Dalmatians

Walt Disney may have hated it, but like Cruella de Vil, he was wrong

By Susana Polo April 25

Disney’s Sleeping Beauty takes a lot of flak — but its critics are reading it all wrong

By Petrana Radulovic April 11

Frozen didn’t start the gripes about Disney faces — it’s been an issue for 70 years

By Petrana Radulovic March 28

A Century of Disney

Disney may never live down Song of the South — or its attempted do-over

Splash Mountain’s closure is just the most recent attempt to rewrite Disney history

By Scout Tafoya March 22

Disney’s largely forgotten wartime shorts, ranked

By Ethan Warren March 7

Donald Duck hit peak popularity during his horny era

By Josh Spiegel February 21

The original Mickey Mouse was an actual mouse

By Pete Volk February 9

Fantasia nearly sunk Disney animation, but Dumbo helped rescue it

By Josh Spiegel February 7

The Disney empire was built on 100 years of near implosions

By Petrana Radulovic January 26

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