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by danielbrito | created - 23 Mar 2012 | updated - 14 Sep 2014 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. The Tortoise and the Hare (1935)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Big race. Hare, fast and in lead, stops to loaf and show off to girl bunnies. Tortoise, plodding along at steady, slow pace, wins, although hare tries a last minute burst of speed.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Dorothy Compton, Marcellite Garner, Beatrice Hagen, Eddie Holden
Votes: 3,584
2. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2011)
TV-G | 15 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Morris Lessmore, a young writer, wanders into a mysterious library after a storm devastates his city. The library is home to magical flying books that literally come to life.
Directors: William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg
Votes: 5,806
3. Day & Night (2010)
G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Day encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods. But their suspicions soon turn to curiosity, and they are delighted to find the joys of their budding friendship.
Director: Teddy Newton | Stars: Muneer Lyati, Wayne Dyer
Votes: 20,075
4. For the Birds (2000)
G | 3 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A group of snooty birds roosting on a telephone wire get their just deserts when a goofy bird drops in.
Director: Ralph Eggleston | Star: Ralph Eggleston
Votes: 34,021
5. Mike's New Car (2002 Video)
Not Rated | 4 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mike's bought a new 6-wheel-drive car, and he can't wait to show it off to Sulley. Only problem is, Mike hasn't exactly mastered the controls yet, and they're pretty complicated.
Directors: Pete Docter, Roger Gould | Stars: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Susskind
Votes: 14,990
6. Jack-Jack Attack (2005 Video)
Not Rated | 5 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The Parrs' baby Jack-Jack is thought to be normal, not having any super-powers like his parents or siblings. But when an outsider is hired to watch him, Jack-Jack shows his true potential.
Director: Brad Bird | Stars: Bret 'Brook' Parker, Bud Luckey, Eli Fucile, Jason Lee
Votes: 17,973
7. One Man Band (2005)
G | 4 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Two buskers engage in a petty feud over a child's donation.
Directors: Mark Andrews, Andrew Jimenez
Votes: 17,027
8. Lifted (2006)
G | 5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A teenage alien is trying to abduct a sleeping human, but doesn't know which switch to use.
Director: Gary Rydstrom | Star: Sheb Wooley
Votes: 20,807
9. Boundin' (2003)
G | 5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A sheep dances proudly in his southwestern landscape, until one day his wool is sheared and he is left naked. He's depressed and shy, until a cheerful jackalope comes along and shows him how to leap proudly and not to be ashamed.
Directors: Bud Luckey, Roger Gould | Star: Bud Luckey
Votes: 14,748
10. Mater's Tall Tales (2008–2012)
Not Rated | 36 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Cruise into the crazy adventures of Tow Mater as you watch him be a fire truck, daredevil, import drifter, and even an astronaut.
Stars: Larry the Cable Guy, Keith Ferguson, Lindsey Collins, Elissa Knight
Votes: 4,204
11. Presto (2008)
G | 5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A stage magician's rabbit gets into a magical onstage brawl against his neglectful guardian with two magic hats.
Director: Doug Sweetland
Votes: 25,739
12. Dug's Special Mission (2009 Video)
TV-PG | 5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Alpha, Beta, and Gamma try to keep Dug out of their way while they hunt for Kevin the Snipe. However, their instructions for his "very special mission" keep backfiring on them.
Director: Ronnie Del Carmen | Stars: Bob Peterson, Delroy Lindo, Jerome Ranft, Edward Asner
Votes: 7,406
13. Partly Cloudy (2009)
G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Babies both human and beast are created up in the stratosphere, by the clouds themselves. One cloud specializes in "dangerous" babies, creating a challenge for his loyal stork that has to deliver them.
Director: Peter Sohn | Stars: Tony Fucile, Lori Richardson
Votes: 23,443
14. The Tell-Tale Heart (I) (1953)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Crime
A madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward.
Director: Ted Parmelee | Stars: James Mason, Jack Mather
Votes: 2,216
15. La concejala antropófaga (2009)
8 min | Short, Comedy
The story of genius dandelion in glasses about an aspiring writer obsessed with the desire to eat a man's legs.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Carmen Machi, Penélope Cruz, Marta Aledo
Votes: 1,348
16. Cashback (2004)
18 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Ben is an art college student in London, whose imagination runs wild as he works the late-night shift at the local supermarket. What do he and his colleagues do to pass the long, endless hours of the night?
Director: Sean Ellis | Stars: Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox, Stuart Goodwin, Michael Dixon
Votes: 11,211
17. Oktapodi (2007)
TV-G | 3 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Two Octopi fight for their lives with a stubborn restaurant cook in a comical escape through the streets of a small Greek village.
Directors: Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, Emud Mokhberi
Votes: 3,553
18. Destino (2003)
PG | 7 min | Animation, Short
Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney's Destino features the tragic love story of Chronos, the personification of time, and a mortal woman as they seek each other out across surreal landscapes.
Director: Dominique Monfery | Stars: Dora Luz, Jennifer Esposito
Votes: 5,999
19. The Longest Daycare (2012)
PG | 5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Maggie Simpson spends the day in the Ayn Rand School for Tots.
Director: David Silverman
Votes: 6,075
20. La Luna (2011)
G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A fable of a young boy coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. It's the first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. Will he be able to find his own way?
Director: Enrico Casarosa | Stars: Tony Fucile, Krista Sheffler, Phil Sheridan
Votes: 17,018
21. Paperman (2012)
G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
An office worker meets the girl of his dreams and uses a fleet of paper airplanes to get her attention.
Director: John Kahrs | Stars: John Kahrs, Kari Wahlgren, Jack Goldenberg, Jeff Turley
Votes: 35,398
22. Rabbit of Seville (1950)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Bugs Bunny gives Elmer Fudd a close shave as they sing and act out Rossini's opera.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Votes: 5,656
23. The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Daffy Duck pitches to J.L. Warner a starring role with himself in a ridiculously over the top swashbuckler film.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Marian Richman
Votes: 2,257
24. Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The story of a little boy who would only talk in sound effects. With story by Dr. Seuss (and Bill Scott of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame) this cartoon won the Oscar for best short subject (animated) for 1950.
Directors: Robert Cannon, John Hubley | Star: Marvin Miller
Votes: 2,084
25. Broom-Stick Bunny (1956)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Witch Hazel's claim to be the ugliest witch of all is threatened by a Halloween witch who turns out to be Bugs trick-or-treating.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, June Foray
Votes: 1,635
26. To Be Alive! (1964)
18 min | Documentary, Short
"To Be Alive!" was designed to celebrate the common ground between different cultures by tracing how children in various parts of the world mature into adulthood.
Directors: Alexander Hammid, Francis Thompson | Star: Robert Fields
Votes: 110
27. It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
Now middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger, and his rise to becoming wealthy and highly influential. Through it all, he talks about how much of his ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Ira Rubin, Sam DeFazio, Andrea Martin, Catherine Scorsese
Votes: 2,187
28. Why Man Creates (1968)
29 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Mixing animation with live-action, Saul Bass' "Why Man Creates" is an eight-part meditation on the nature and struggle of creativity.
Director: Saul Bass | Stars: Peter Hansen, Paul Saltman
Votes: 839
29. The Alphabet (1969)
TV-MA | 4 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.
Director: David Lynch | Star: Peggy Reavey
Votes: 8,555
30. The Little Drummer Boy (1968 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 25 min | Animation, Drama, Family
An orphan drummer boy who hates humanity finds his life changed forever when he meets three wise men en route to Bethlehem.
Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr., Takeo Nakamura | Stars: José Ferrer, Paul Frees, June Foray, Ted Eccles
Votes: 6,399
31. The Red Balloon (1956)
Not Rated | 34 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.
Director: Albert Lamorisse | Stars: Pascal Lamorisse, Sabine Lamorisse, Georges Sellier, Vladimir Popov
Votes: 20,137
32. The Bolero (1973)
Not Rated | 26 min | Short, Music, Documentary
The first part of this Academy Award-winning short consists of a behind-the-scenes look at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra as it prepares to perform Ravel's "Bolero." Individual ... See full summary »
Directors: William Fertik, Allan Miller | Stars: Zubin Mehta, Merrit Buxbaum, Robert Dival, Ernest Fleischman
Votes: 115
33. Chess Fever (1925)
Not Rated | 20 min | Comedy, Short
With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his ... See full summary »
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi | Stars: José Raúl Capablanca, Vladimir Fogel, Anna Zemtsova, Natalya Glan
Votes: 1,478
34. The Tramp (1915)
TV-G | 26 min | Short, Comedy
The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Billy Armstrong, Lloyd Bacon, Bud Jamison
Votes: 3,738
35. The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy, Short
A bumbling detective comes to the rescue of a damsel in distress when a drug smuggler wants to force her to marry him.
Director: John Emerson | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Bessie Love, Allan Sears, Tom Wilson
Votes: 1,005
36. The Count (1916)
Unrated | 21 min | Short, Comedy
The fifth film in the Mutual series Charlie Chaplin impersonates a man of means in order to underscore the contrast between rich and poor.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Albert Austin
Votes: 2,488
37. The Fireman (1916)
TV-G | 24 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie is a fireman who always does everything wrong. A man talks the Fire Chief into ignoring his burning home (he wants the insurance money) unaware that his daughter (the love of the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Lloyd Bacon, Eric Campbell
Votes: 2,886
38. The Floorwalker (1916)
TV-G | 29 min | Short, Comedy
The Tramp is tricked into impersonating an embezzling floorwalker in a department store.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Eric Campbell, Edna Purviance, Lloyd Bacon
Votes: 2,698
39. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965)
Approved | 10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A simple line attempts to woo his true love, a dot, away from the unkempt squiggle she prefers. But he'll have to learn to bend before she'll notice him.
Directors: Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble | Star: Robert Morley
Votes: 1,641
40. Deduce, You Say (1956)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Daffy Duck is a detective who is hunting for the Shropshire Slasher.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, June Foray
Votes: 1,230
41. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)
Approved | 16 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The legendary sailors Popeye and Sindbad do battle to see which one is the greatest.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky | Stars: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Lou Fleischer, Gus Wicke
Votes: 4,034
42. Snow-White (1933)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest. Cab Calloway sings "St. James Infirmary Blues."
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Roland Crandall | Stars: Cab Calloway, Billy Murray, Mae Questel
Votes: 2,217
43. [Ybi-173] (2004)
15 min | Short
Director: Alfredo Hueck | Stars: Luis Octavian Rahamut, Luis Carlos Hueck, Pavel Roschupkin, Dimas González
Votes: 19
44. Ugly Duckling (1939)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A baby duckling is shunned by his family because he is different. He is also rejected by all of the other birds and animals. Finally a mother swan adopts him as one of her brood.
Directors: Jack Cutting, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske | Stars: Clarence Nash, Amanda Cewel, Tom Cotry
Votes: 3,626
45. Porky in Wackyland (1938)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Porky Pig goes on a hunt to catch the surreally elusive last Do-Do bird.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Robert Clampett, Bernice Hansen
Votes: 2,270
46. Brave Little Tailor (1938)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Inspired by the Grimm's fairy tale, this classic 1938 Mickey cartoon finds our hero (voiced by Walt Disney) battling a hilariously huge "problem.
Directors: Burt Gillett, Bill Roberts | Stars: Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner, Eddie Holden, Billy Sheets
Votes: 3,341
47. You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940)
Approved | 10 min | Animation, Family, Comedy
Daffy Duck tries to usurp Porky Pig's job through devious means in this wild blend of live action and animation.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Leon Schlesinger, Henry Binder, Gerry Chiniquy
Votes: 1,757
48. Three Orphan Kittens (1935)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Three orphan kittens are entering a society house in winter and ruin the furniture. But when they're caught by the maid, the young daughter of the house "rescues" them from the cold out outside.
Director: David Hand | Stars: Sara Berner, Harriette Haddon, Purv Pullen, Esther Campbell
Votes: 1,299
49. The Band Concert (1935)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mickey is a frustrated bandleader dealing with obnoxious peanut vendor and flute player Donald, who tries to persuade the band to play "Turkey in the Straw," and a cyclone hits before his concert of "William Tell Overture" is completed.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Clarence Nash
Votes: 3,953
50. The Country Cousin (1936)
Approved | 9 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
Morty Citymouse invites his cousin Abner Countrymouse for a visit and shows him the ways of the big city, including traps, eating quietly, and busy traffic.
Directors: David Hand, Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Clarence Nash
Votes: 1,666
51. How to Sleep (1935)
Passed | 11 min | Comedy, Short
A humorous look at the problems people have trying to sleep.
Director: Nick Grinde | Star: Robert Benchley
Votes: 737
52. One Week (1920)
TV-G | 25 min | Short, Comedy
A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts
Votes: 9,241
53. Cinderella (1922)
7 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
Cinderella, the "ash girl," is kept in menial labor by her two wicked stepsisters. Meanwhile the handsome prince of the territory is out hunting bears. His father invites everyone in the ... See full summary »
Director: Walt Disney
Votes: 488
54. Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (1977 TV Movie)
TV-G | 30 min | Animation, Drama, Family
An outcast donkey in Roman era Judea with overlong ears finds his destiny on the way to Bethlehem.
Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | Stars: Roger Miller, Brenda Vaccaro, Paul Frees, Don Messick
Votes: 2,450
55. Thoth (2002)
40 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Thoth is a street performer currently in New York. Thoth is an individual with a complicated life and background. Thoth plays on opera with a violin in a loincloth in Central Park. Thoth is.
Director: Sarah Kernochan | Stars: S.K. Thoth, Robert Janoff, Elayne Jones, George Kaufman
Votes: 244
56. You Killed Me First (1985)
11 min | Drama, Short
A young woman rebels against her family's petit bourgeois respectability, conservatism and religiosity.
Director: Richard Kern | Stars: Lung Leg, David Wojnarowicz, Karen Finley, Jessica Craig-Martin
Votes: 425
57. Aningaaq (2013)
PG | 7 min | Short, Drama
Short film connected to the movie Gravity (2013). It shows the conversation of Dr. Ryan Stone with someone on earth, but this time from the other side of the line, an Inuit fisherman in a frozen desert.
Director: Jonás Cuarón | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Orto Ignatiussen, Lajla Lange, Maligiaq Fredeik
Votes: 3,454
58. Room on the Broom (2012 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 25 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
To the annoyance of her cat a kindly witch allows a dog, a bird and a frog who have helped her retrieve things she has lost to ride on her broomstick, making it top heavy. The broom is ... See full summary »
Directors: Jan Lachauer, Max Lang | Stars: Simon Pegg, Gillian Anderson, Rob Brydon, Timothy Spall
Votes: 4,714
59. That Wasn't Me (2012)
Not Rated | 25 min | Short, Drama, War
A harrowing tale of courage and forgiveness as told from the perspective of the killers. Being a soldier is not difficult: either you get used to it or they kill you. The hardest thing is ... See full summary »
Director: Esteban Crespo | Stars: Alejandra Lorente, Gustavo Salmerón, Babou Cham, Mariano Nguema
Votes: 749
60. Mr Hublot (2013)
11 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mr Hublot is a withdrawn, idiosyncratic character with OCD, scared of change and the outside world. Robot Pet's arrival turns his life upside down: he has to share his home with this very invasive companion.
Directors: Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares
Votes: 5,226
61. Carrotblanca (1995)
G | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A spoof of the classic film Casablanca (1942), starring Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes characters.
Director: Douglas McCarthy | Stars: Joe Alaskey, Bob Bergen, Greg Burson, Maurice LaMarche
Votes: 1,276
62. A Truncated Story of Infinity (2012)
9 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
A poetic and scientific exploration of infinity in the everyday. Comprised of various visual representations of infinity interspersed throughout a non-linear narrative. Following a day in ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Trillo | Stars: Mackenzie Bourbin, Ricardo Cabral, Andrew Falberg, Elias Greendorfer
Votes: 74
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