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1. The Jungle Book (2016)
PG | 106 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan forces him to flee the jungle, a man-cub named Mowgli embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of panther Bagheera and free-spirited bear Baloo.
Director: Jon Favreau | Stars: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba
Votes: 292,178 | Gross: $364.00M
2. The Jungle Book (1967)
G | 78 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization.
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman | Stars: Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, Bruce Reitherman
Votes: 198,771 | Gross: $141.84M
3. The Jungle Book (1994)
PG | 111 min | Adventure, Family, Romance
Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of Mowgli, the orphaned jungle boy raised by wild animals, and how he becomes king of the jungle.
Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill
Votes: 18,949 | Gross: $44.34M
4. Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)
PG-13 | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A human child raised by wolves must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.
Director: Andy Serkis | Stars: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Benedict Cumberbatch, Naomie Harris
Votes: 65,666
5. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
PG | 129 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In 1880s India, two former British soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey
Votes: 52,056
6. The Jungle Book 2 (2003)
G | 72 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Mowgli, missing the jungle and his old friends, runs away from the man village unaware of the danger he's in by going back to the wild.
Director: Steve Trenbirth | Stars: John Goodman, Haley Joel Osment, Tony Jay, Mae Whitman
Votes: 17,958 | Gross: $47.89M
7. Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Family
Priscilla Williams, a young girl living with her widowed mother and paternal grandfather at the post he commands in northern India, becomes enamored of military life and embroiled in brewing rebellion against the crown in the early 1900's.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, C. Aubrey Smith, June Lang
Votes: 1,940
8. Studio One (1948–1958)
60 min | Drama
A pinnacle of the Golden Age of Television, "Studio One" presented a wide range of memorable dramas and received eighteen Emmy nominations and five wins during its prestigious nine-year run on CBS.
Stars: Betty Furness, Paul Branson, Charlton Heston, Mary Sinclair
Votes: 328
9. Captains Courageous (1937)
G | 117 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship in the 1920s gets picked up by a New England fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas
Votes: 10,924
10. Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958–1961)
60 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
This was a US children's anthology series hosted and narrated by actress Shirley Temple.
Stars: Shirley Temple, Pernell Roberts, Agnes Moorehead, Jonathan Harris
Votes: 231
11. Gunga Din (1939)
Approved | 117 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Votes: 12,801
12. Jungle Book (1942)
Approved | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Family
A boy raised by wild animals tries to adapt to human village life.
Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia
Votes: 4,701 | Gross: $2.83M
13. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1975 TV Short)
Not Rated | 24 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
A young mongoose protects his human family from two murderous cobras.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Orson Welles, June Foray, Les Tremayne, Michael LeClair
Votes: 2,146
14. Suspense (1949–1954)
25 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Live plays featuring people who were in dangerous and threatening situations.
Stars: Rex Marshall, Robert Emhardt, Robert H. Harris, John Baragrey
Votes: 358
15. The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli (1989–2020)
TV-Y7-FV | 24 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
The adventures of Mowgli, an orphan boy raised by wolves, and his friends in the jungles of India.
Stars: Urara Takano, Banjô Ginga, Julian Bailey, Thor Bishopric
Votes: 1,572
16. Sergeants 3 (1962)
Approved | 112 min | Comedy, Western
Three cavalry officers and a bugler work together to thwart a Native American chief intent on uniting local tribes against the white man.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford
Votes: 1,333
17. The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997)
PG | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The story of Mowgli, a young boy abandoned in the wilds of India. Raised by a panther, an elephant and a bear, Mowgli must learn civilization's ways when his long-lost uncle and a circus scout from Barnum and Bailey come looking for him.
Director: Dee McLachlan | Stars: Jamie Williams, Billy Campbell, Roddy McDowall, David Paul Francis
Votes: 1,202 | Gross: $0.48M
18. Jungle Book 2
Adventure, Drama, Family | Announced
A sequel to The Jungle Book (2016).
Director: Jon Favreau
19. Jackanory (1965–1996)
15 min | Family, Fantasy
A celebrity reads a story, enhancing it in ways that will entice the most restless of children.
Stars: Bernard Cribbins, Kenneth Williams, Martin Jarvis, John Grant
Votes: 423
20. Television Theater (1953– )
Drama
Series of television plays.
Stars: Jerzy Trela, Krzysztof Globisz, Krystyna Janda, Jan Englert
Votes: 91
21. Kim (1950)
Approved | 113 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas
Votes: 2,259
22. The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998 Video)
G | 77 min | Adventure, Family
Now your whole family can relive Disney's 'The Jungle Book', from Mowgli's point of view.
Director: Nick Marck | Stars: Brandon Baker, Sherman Howard, Clancy Brown, Peri Gilpin
Votes: 892
23. Captains Courageous (1996 TV Movie)
PG | 93 min | Drama, Family
A wealthy, spoiled boy falls overboard and is rescued by fishermen who put him to work.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Robert Urich, Kenny Vadas, Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Robert Wisden
Votes: 841
24. The Adventures of Mowgli (1973)
Not Rated | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A boy raised by animals learns to live by the laws of the jungle. Full-length version of the Soviet animated series.
Director: Roman Davydov | Stars: Lyusena Ovchinnikova, Aleksandr Nazarov, Anatoliy Papanov, Sergey Martinson
Votes: 2,294
25. The Jungle Book: The Movie (2012)
G | 62 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
While Mowgli and Mani enjoy their time drumming away at logs in the jungle, Shere Khan plots to put an end to the noise. Will Mowgli escape the clutches of the evil Shere Khan, and still have time to join his friends in the jungle rhythm?
Director: Tapaas Chakravarti | Stars: Emma Tate, Jimmy Hibbert, David Holt, Nigel Pilkington
Votes: 19
26. Exorcism of Fleete Marish (2022)
Horror
Many years ago in the Acadian forest, a local sheriff and his oldest friend are forced to perform an exorcism in a remote cabin the woods.
Directors: Jonathan Gorman, Thomas Edward Seymour | Stars: Dick Boland, Marc Bovino, Margaret Rose Champagne, Isaiah Entsua-Mensah
Votes: 21
27. The Jungle Book (1995 Video)
Unrated | 48 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Young boy Mowgli, who was raised in the jungle by animals, must decide whether he belongs to the jungle or the human world as well as confront the villainous tiger, who's threatening the wolf pack that adopted him.
Directors: Toshiyuki Hiruma, Takashi Masunaga | Stars: Tony Ail, Nathan Aswell, Bailee Reid, Kathleen Barr
Votes: 269
28. Grande Teatro Tupi (1951–1964)
Drama
A tele theater where famous plays were adapted and staged, during the days before videotaped Brazilian television, and performed by a cast of accomplished actors.
Stars: Wanda Kosmo, Rita Cléos, Nydia Lícia, Rildo Gonçalves
Votes: 31
29. Children of the Mist (1993 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A bereaved man finds solace in a blind woman who has the ability to see the souls of departed children, including his own daughter who recently died. With the woman's help, he is able to work through his grief.
Director: John Korty | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Vanessa Redgrave, Valerie Mahaffey, Nancy Moore Atchison
Votes: 418
30. A Fool There Was (1915)
Not Rated | 67 min | Drama
A married diplomat falls hopelessly under the spell of a predatory woman.
Director: Frank Powell | Stars: Theda Bara, Edward José, Mabel Frenyear, May Allison
Votes: 1,042
31. The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo (1964–1965)
30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Animated series featuring Jim Backus's Mr. Magoo character in half-hour adaptations of classic stories for children. Praised by both critics and educators, and well-remembered by fans, the ... See full summary »
Stars: Jim Backus, Joan Gardner, Marvin Miller, Paul Frees
Votes: 666
32. The Light That Failed (1939)
Passed | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Dick Heldar, a London artist, is gradually losing his sight. He struggles to complete his masterpiece, the portrait of Bessie Broke, a cockney girl, before his eyesight fails him.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Muriel Angelus, Ida Lupino
Votes: 520
33. A Cruel Romance (1984)
142 min | Drama, Romance
A bitter story about tender love and its cruel betrayal set in Russia of the 19th century.
Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Alisa Freyndlikh, Larisa Guzeeva, Nikita Mikhalkov, Andrey Myagkov
Votes: 3,986
34. Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book (1998)
TV-Y | 30 min | Adventure
In this contemporary adaptation, Mowgli is joined on his adventures by a young American girl named Nahbiri, who has accompanied her widowed doctor father to Jabalpur.
Stars: Sean Price McConnell, Lindsey Peter, Bart Braverman, Richard Assad
Votes: 91
35. Merry-Go-Round (1963–1983)
20 min | Documentary, Family
An educational series aimed at primary school children, covering many diverse school topics.
Stars: Tom Gibbs, Richard Carpenter, Max Mason, Gabriel Woolf
36. Elephant Boy (1937)
Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai, of the Elephants", in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.
Directors: Robert J. Flaherty, Zoltan Korda | Stars: Sabu, W.E. Holloway, Walter Hudd, Allan Jeayes
Votes: 852
37. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1976)
78 min | Family
Rikki is a young mongoose who is adopted by a human family after nearly drowning in the river. He returns the favour by protecting them from two murderous cobra.
Directors: Nana Kldiashvili, Aleksandr Zguridi | Stars: Margarita Terekhova, Aleksey Batalov, Igor Alekseyev, Sandin Vishnu
Votes: 574
38. Jungle Book (1990 Video)
28 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
A caring she-wolf adopts a lost human baby. He's named Mowgli and raised by Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. One day, impish monkeys snatch Mowgli away and take him to their city. Baloo and Bagheera ask Kaa the snake for help.
Director: Jim Simon | Stars: Jim Cummings, Jeannie Elias, Kath Soucie
Votes: 55
39. Mark of the Beast (2012)
70 min | Horror
For the first time ever the famous horror story by Rudyard Kipling comes to the big screen. It is the tale of two heroes who lose their way fighting off a silver faceless leper in the woods.
Directors: Jonathan Gorman, Thomas Edward Seymour | Stars: Ellen Muth, Debbie Rochon, Margaret Rose Champagne, Sheri Lynn
Votes: 48
40. Elephant Boy (1972– )
25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The story of 12 year old, Toumai, his younger brother Ranjit, and their great friend the elephant Kala Nag.
Stars: Esrom Jayasinghe, Uwe Friedrichsen, Isobel Black, Margot Leonard
Votes: 52
41. The White Seal (1975 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 24 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A unique white seal searches for a refuge for his herd from humans.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Roddy McDowall, June Foray
Votes: 317
42. Kim (1984 TV Movie)
150 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A friendly street kid in India, during the last years of the nineteenth century, looks and considers himself Indian, but is in fact a Brit. The Brits discover his true origin, and train him as a spy.
Director: John Davies | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Bryan Brown, John Rhys-Davies, Ravi Sheth
Votes: 234
43. Mowgli's Brothers (1976 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 25 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A feral child raised by jungle wolves must eventually assert his humanity to save his wolf parents from a tiger's malevolent influence on his pack.
Directors: Chuck Jones, Hal Ambro | Stars: Roddy McDowall, June Foray
Votes: 254
44. Captains Courageous (1977 TV Movie)
100 min | Adventure
A spoiled little rich boy learns what life is really like after he falls overboard in the middle of the ocean and is picked up by a crusty old sea captain.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Karl Malden, Jonathan Kahn, Johnny Doran, Neville Brand
Votes: 97
45. Soldiers Three (1951)
Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
Retired British general Brunswick reminisces about the days when he was a colonel in charge of a British Army battalion fighting against native rebels in colonial India during the late 1800s.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven, Robert Newton
Votes: 506
46. The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1963– )
Drama
Stars: Joss Ackland, Kenneth Fortescue, Patrick Westwood, Barry Letts
Votes: 36
47. The Mannii Show on YouTube (2022– )
Comedy
An unprecedented, all-access look inside the life of MJ, a 16yo mega-influencer and content creator, who tries to stay grounded while attempting to expand his hit US web property "MJ's World" to a global scale.
Stars: Mannii J Santamaria, Jessie TheRoo
Votes: 12
48. The Cat That Walked by Himself (1968)
20 min | Animation, Short
The story about the wild creatures of the wild forest and one impudent Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.
Director: Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya | Stars: Boris Runge, Irina Kartashyova, Mikhail Pogorzhelsky, Aleksandr Grave
Votes: 219
49. Your Favorite Story (1953–1955)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
TV comedy anthology series
Stars: Adolphe Menjou, John Hamilton, Dan White, Gertrude Michael
Votes: 31
50. The Jungle Book (2010–2019)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
An adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book", Mowgli, the boy who gets lost in the jungle now lives different adventures.
Stars: Sarah Natochenny, Abe Goldfarb, Billy Bob Thompson, David Wills
Votes: 178