New York Times Top 100 Children's Films.
'The New York Times Essential Library: A Critic's Guide to the Best Films Available on Video and DVD' (author: Peter Nichols), suggests 100 films recommended for children ages 8-12.
This list was published in 2002 © New York Times.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
African Queen, The (1951)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Babe (1995)
Back to the Future (1985)
Bad News Bears, The (1976)
Bear, The (1988)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Big (1988)
Black Stallion, The (1979)
Bound for Glory (1976)
Breaking Away (1979)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Buddy Holly Story, The (1978)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Casablanca (1942)
Cat Ballou (1965)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Chicken Run (2000)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
Dick Tracy (1990)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Duck Soup (1933)
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Emma (1996)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Field of Dreams (1989)
Fly Away Home (1996)
Gandhi (1982)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Gold Rush, The (1925)
Great Escape, The (1963)
Great Expectations (1946)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Hard Day's Night, A (1964)
Harry Potter saga, The (2001 to 2007) 1
High Noon (1952)
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Iron Giant, The (1999)
It Happened One Night (1934)
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
Jurassic Park (1993)
King and I, The (1956)
King Kong (1933)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
League of their Own, A (1992)
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Lion King, The (1994)
Little Fugitive (1953)
Little Man Tate (1991)
Little Mermaid, The (1989)
Little Princess, A (1995)
Little Women (1994)
Longest Day, The (1962)
Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The (2001, 2002, 2003) 2
Lost Horizon (1937)
Magnificent Seven, The (1960)
Mary Poppins (1964)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Mr. Smith goes to Washington (1939)
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Music Man, The (1962)
My Fair Lady (1964)
National Velvet (1944)
Never Cry Wolf (1983)
North by Northwest (1959)
Peter Pan (1953)
Pinocchio (1940)
Princess Bride, The (1987)
Rear Window (1954)
Rocky (1976)
Rookie, The (2002)
Secret Garden, The (1993)
Secret of Roan Inish, The (1994)
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
Shane (1953)
Shrek (2001)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
Sound of Music, The (1965)
Star Wars Trilogy, The (1977, 1980, 1983) 3
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Superman (1978)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Three Musketeers, The (1973)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Toy Story (1995)
Walkabout (1971)
West Side Story (1961)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
Winslow Boy, The (1999)
Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
1 only 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone' was originally listed.
2 only 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring' was originally listed.
3 only 'Star Wars' was originally listed.
Images in the header are from: Antwone Fisher (© Fox Searchlight, 2002); Stand by Me (© Columbia Pictures, 1986); Jesus of Nazareth (© ITV (1977); The Passion of The Christ (© Newmarket Films, 2004); Rabbit-proof Fence (© Buena Vista, 2002); Amazing Grace (© Bristol Bay Productions, 2006) and Il Postino (© Cecchi Gori Group, 1994).
