Last spring, The New York Times released their list of the top 100 Movies for kids. Some of the choices might surprise you.
Parents of ‘tweens and teens know just how hard it can be to find a movie that both adults and kids alike can watch, so this list can be a very helpful tool.
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1. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
2. The Adventures of Robin Hood
3. The African Queen
4. Apollo 13
5. Babe
6. Back to the Future
7. The Bad News Bears
8. The Bear
9. Beauty and the Beast
10. Beetlejuice
11. Big
12. The Black Stallion
13. Bound for Glory
14. Breaking Away
15. Bringing Up Baby
16. The Buddy Holly Story
17. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
18. Casablanca
19. Cat Ballou
20. Chariots of Fire
21. Chicken Run
22. Close Encounters of
the Third Kind
23. The Day the Earth Stood Still
24. Dick Tracy
25. Dr. Strangelove
26. Duck Soup
27. Edward Scissorhands
28. Emma
29. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
30. Fiddler on the Roof
31. Field of Dreams
32. Fly Away Home
33. Gandhi
34. Ghostbusters
35. The Gold Rush
36. The Great Escape
37. Great Expectations
38. Groundhog Day
39. A Hard Day’s Night
40. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
41. High Noon
42. The Iron Giant
43. It Happened One Night
44. James and the Giant Peach
45. Jurassic Park
46. The King and I
47. King Kong
48. Lawrence of Arabia
49. A League of Their Own
50. Lilo & Stitch
51. The Lion King
52. Little Fugitive
53. Little Man Tate
54. The Little Mermaid
55. A Little Princess
56. Little Women
57. The Longest Day
58. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
59. Lost Horizon
60. The Magnificent Seven
61. Mary Poppins
62. Monsters, Inc.
63. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
64. Mrs. Doubtfire
65. The Music Man
66. My Fair Lady
67. National Velvet
68. Never Cry Wolf
69. North by Northwest
70. Peter Pan
71. Pinocchio
72. The Princess Bride
73. Raiders of the Lost Ark
74. Rear Window
75. Rocky
76. The Rookie
77. The Secret Garden
78. The Secret of Roan Inish
79. Shane
80. Shrek
81. Singin’ in the Rain
82. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
83. Some Like It Hot
84. The Sound of Music
85. Spirited Away
86. Star Wars
87. Steamboat Bill, Jr.
88. Sullivan’s Travels
89. Superman
90. Swiss Family Robinson
91. Three Musketeers (Tie)
91. Four Musketeers (Tie)
92. To Kill a Mockingbird
93. Toy Story (Tie)
93. Toy Story 2 (Tie)
94. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
95. Walkabout
96. West Side Story
97. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
98. The Winslow Boy
99. The Wizard of Oz
100. Yellow Submarin