Classic Family Films

Like Peter Pan, the true children’s classic family films never grow up and lose their charm. Whenever these timeless movies were made they continue to delight original fans and enchant new audiences.

Although it's impossible to explain exactly what makes a classic family film, they do share a universal nature that reaches out from the original setting.
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Victor Fleming, 1939

£5.99

The Wizard of Oz

One of the most famous and beloved films of all time, featuring an utterly beguiling performance ...

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David Eady, John Krish, 1958-76

£17.99

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CFF Collection: Volume 1 - London Tales

Contains The Salvage Gang (Krish, 1958), Operation Third Form (Eady, 1966) and Ni...

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Richard C. Sarafian, 1969

£12.99

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Run Wild, Run Free

Mark Lester (the lead in the 1968 film of 1968 Oliver!) plays mute 10 year-old Philip Ransome, wh...

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Jeremy Summers, Charles Frend, 1957-78

£15.99

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CFF Collection: Volume 2 - The Race is On

The BFI presents three more classic films from the Children’s Film Foundation. Cu...

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Michael Powell, Alberto Cavalcanti, 1961-78

£13.99

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CFF Collection: Volume 3 - Weird Adventures

The splendidly eccentric final collaboration from Michael Powell and Emeric Press...

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Gerald Landau, 1957

£16.19

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Enid Blyton's the Famous Five: Five On a Treasure Island

Five on a Treasure Island, adapted from Enid Blyton...

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Jan Svankmajer, 1988

£17.99

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Alice (Svankmajer)

In Alice, a little girl follows a white rabbit into a world where nothing is quite what it seems....

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Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, 1950

£17.99

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Cinderella (Disney)

The original Walt Disney animated classic of Cinderella, based on Charles Perrault's 17th-century...

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Ken Loach, 1969

£6.99

Kes

Still Loach's best-known and best-loved film adapted from the Barry Hines novel A Kestrel for a K...

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Laslo Benedek, 1966

£8.99

Namu, the Killer Whale

A heartwarming story for the family about a special bond between an oceanographer and an Orca wha...

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Jean-Jacques Vierne, 1961

£7.49

Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece

One of the very few adaptations to meet with Tintin creator Hergé’s approval, Tin...

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Lotte Reiniger, 1922-56

£11.99

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Lotte Reiniger: The Fairy Tale Films

An exciting first volume of animated films from the pioneer of silhouette animati...

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Various (Animation), 1940

£15.99

Fantasia (Special Edition)

The famously ambitious animated epic from Disney studios in which eight animated ...

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Ernest Morris, 1964

£16.19

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Enid Blyton's the Famous Five: Five Have a Mystery to Solve

With enthusiastic performances from the well-cast y...

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Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronomi, 1953

£16.49

Peter Pan (Disney)

The classic Walt Disney animation taken from JM Barrie's stage play. The magic begins when Peter ...

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Powell , Berger , 1940

£7.99

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The Thief of Bagdad

Probably the best film of its genre, telling of a small boy who experiences a series of magical a...

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Various (Animation), 1991-92

£12.49

The Adventures of Tintin

A feast of Tintin - the world's most famous boy reporter. With his faithful dog S...

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Norman McLeod, 1933

£5.99

Alice in Wonderland (McLeod, 1933)

Paramount Studios' all-star adaptation from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland a...

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