Disney animated features 11–20

A studio sequence, not a popularity list

Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan follow the final package feature at the start of this group. Their positions reflect original release order, regardless of how popular a title became in later reissues or home viewing. The studio catalogue supplies the candidate set. Live-action films, Pixar features and later direct-to-video sequels are excluded, even if audiences recognise them as Disney productions. Without that boundary, there would be no consistent meaning for the numbered positions 11 through 20.

What the gaps in the dates show

Lady and the Tramp arrived in 1955 and Sleeping Beauty in 1959; The Sword in the Stone followed in 1963 and The Jungle Book in 1967. Those gaps make an annual-release assumption unreliable. They do not show that the studio was inactive between these features, since it also produced work outside this canon. The table is a timeline of this particular feature series. It cannot by itself support a claim about all studio output or the time taken to make any one film.

Avoid confusing originals and remakes

Several titles later received live-action or other reinterpretations. A new version does not replace the original animated film’s date in this list. One Hundred and One Dalmatians refers to the 1961 animated feature here, not the later live-action film commonly styled with numerals. Similarly, remembering a recent Cinderella or Jungle Book release should not move those titles down the chronology. The canonical names and original dates together identify the intended versions.

Where the ten-film window begins and ends

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad belongs here because it is the eleventh film in the studio sequence, even though its two-part structure resembles the preceding period. The Aristocats closes the window in 1970; Robin Hood follows outside it. These boundaries are determined by counting releases rather than declaring a definitive artistic era. Readers can use the dates to discuss changes in storytelling or production, but such interpretation should remain separate from the simple, checkable rule used to decide the ten answers.

Sources & further reading

• Walt Disney Animation Studios — Films

Explanation updated Sunday, November 1, 2026. The puzzle’s original data date is listed below.