Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Family > Classics: 129 Films to Rent on DVD
- Secret Garden, The (1949)
- Dir. Fred M. Wilcox
Feat. Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell…
- Story about an orphan who discovers a secret garden at her Uncle's Victorian manor continues to fascinate young and old. Colour sequences give the…
- Story of Seabiscuit, The (1949)
- Dir. David Butler
Feat. Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald, Lon McCallister
- Shirley Temple stars in this version of the Seabiscuit racehorse story in which the 1930s 'underdog' triumphed against the thoroughbred champions of…
- Oliver Twist (1948)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh…
- Astonishing version of the Dicken's classic, notable for great atmosphere and Alec Guinness.
- Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
- Dir. George Seaton
Feat. Natalie Wood, Edmund Gwenn
- Original version of the Yuletide fantasy, where child–sceptic Natalie Wood becomes gradually convinced that department–store Santa,…
- Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
- Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff
- Danny Kaye shines in this delightful family film as a quiet day–dreamer whose real life catches up with his elaborate adventure fantasies.
- Black Beauty (1946)
- Dir. Max Nosseck
Feat. Mona Freeman, Richard Denning, Evelyn Ankers…
- Based on Anna Sewell's much loved novel about the bond between a young girl and her beautiful black colt.
Also contains "Courage of Black…
- Looney Tunes (TV Series) (Bugs Bunny) (1946-1969)
- 56 Restored shorts from the Warner Bros classic (violent) cartoon vault. Appearing are Sylvester, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety, Daffy Duck, Road…
- Yearling, The (1946)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Claude Jr. Jarman, Jane Wyman, Gregory Peck
- Delightfully quaint fable of childhood, has innocent lad Claude Jarman Jnr raising a pet deer in backwoods Florida, while Ma and Pa, scrape together…
- My Friend Flicka (1945)
- Dir. Harold Schuster
Feat. Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson
- Rancher lad Roddy McDowall is finally allowed a horse of his own, but chooses a wild, unmanageable colt, whose trust he only slowly, and painfully,…
- National Velvet (1944)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney
- Ever–exciting family classic, with 12 year–old budding equestrian Elizabeth Taylor, taking her horse Velvet all the way to the Grand…