A clip in the Science Please! collection, Slippery Ice! uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain why we slip on ice.
Rick Jones
as Narrator
An old lady’s house is full of boxes filled with memories. Every Wednesday, along with her cockroach friends, she tells her granddaughter wonderful stories. But as the little girl grows bigger, they start running out of space inside the house.
11-year-old Leo has to deal with her depressive father while secretly falling in love with her best friend Isabell. Slowly she realizes that she deserves to be free despite her father's illness.
"Chasing Stars" tells the magic journey of a young girl, who’s looking for her home and own place in the world. The journey takes place in the Arctic and the main character is helped by a very special friend, a Beluga whale.
A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's tale The Ugly Duckling.
Francine, a brilliant 9-year-old girl who hates her mother's cooking, battles a robot version of herself for her life - and a slice of pizza.
Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.
A children's storybook come to life: the tale of Precious the Pony who wants to win a beautiful tiara.
A looping GIF has an existential crisis.
Bound in ancient celestial ballet, nine dead Kings arise to claim a fallen Emperor.
A rookie government agent attempts to hunt down his first UFO in order to earn the respect of his fellow agents.
This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall of many doors.
Based on a traditional spoken tale, this Bertolt Brecht inspired musical humorously denounces poverty and insecurity, while ending on a very sarcastic note. A fine example of activist hand-crafted filmmaking.
A surreal short animation by Mirai Mizue.
With his best friend Luca away at school, Alberto is enjoying his new life in Portorosso working alongside Massimo—the imposing, tattooed, one-armed fisherman of few words—who's quite possibly the coolest human in the entire world as far as Alberto is concerned. He wants more than anything to impress his mentor, but it's easier said than done.
A little boy, accompanied by a chickadee, explores a great mystery: the world’s friendship.