Movies with elephants as heroes!
by willi-beckenlehner | created - 25 Jul 2016 | updated - 23 Oct 2022 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Dumbo (1941)
G | 64 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Ridiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential.
Directors: Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Ben Sharpsteen, John Elliotte | Stars: Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy, Herman Bing, Billy Bletcher
Votes: 142,035 | Gross: $1.60M
2. Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)
PG | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
To keep the loyalty of a village during the Vietnam war, a U.S. Army officer and his unit struggle to deliver it a live elephant.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Danny Glover, Ray Liotta, Denis Leary, Doug E. Doug
Votes: 9,706 | Gross: $24.70M
3. 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
4. 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
5. Zootopia (2016)
PG | 108 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a rookie bunny cop and a cynical con artist fox must work together to uncover a conspiracy.
Directors: Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush | Stars: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Jenny Slate
Votes: 546,130 | Gross: $341.27M
6. 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: 4,696 | Gross: $2.83M
7. 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: 198,613 | Gross: $141.84M
8. 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: 18,941 | Gross: $44.34M
9. 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
10. 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: 17,946 | Gross: $47.89M
11. 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: 292,006 | Gross: $364.00M
12. Babar: The Movie (1989)
G | 70 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
In his spectacular film debut, young Babar, King of the Elephants, must save his homeland from certain destruction by Rataxes and his band of invading rhinos.
Director: Alan Bunce | Stars: Gordon Pinsent, Gavin Magrath, Elizabeth Hanna, Lisa Jai
Votes: 1,114 | Gross: $1.31M
13. Babar: King of the Elephants (1999)
G | 80 min | Family, Animation
Based on the classic tale by Jean de Brunhoff, this fully-animated feature is the heart-warming story of a little orphan elephant named Babar who grows up to be King of the Elephants.
Director: Raymond Jafelice | Stars: Philip Williams, Wayne Robson, Ellen-Ray Hennessy, Kristin Fairlie
Votes: 589 | Gross: $0.05M
14. Benjamin Blümchen (1988– )
Animation
Newtown, which is a normal small town is famous for one special thing: the zoo has a talking elephant: Benjamin Blümchen. Everyone knows and loves him because he always helps out where help is needed or comes to the rescue.
Stars: Katja Primel, Wolfgang Ziffer, Gisela Fritsch, Edgar Ott
Votes: 139
15. Benjamin Blümchen - Seine schönsten Abenteuer (1997)
75 min | Animation, Family
Director: Gerhard Hahn | Stars: Susanna Bonasewicz, Gisela Fritsch, Till Hagen, Edgar Ott
Votes: 52
16. Benjamin Blümchen (2002–2003)
Animation, Family
Stars: Jürgen Kluckert, Wolfgang Ziffer, Katja Primel, Gisela Fritsch
Votes: 102
17. Dumbo (2019)
PG | 112 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green
Votes: 82,510 | Gross: $114.77M
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