Director Chris Sanders (1960)

The film The Call of the Wild (2020) is based on Jack London’s novel from 1903 and tells the story of Buck, a large and gentle mix of Saint Bernard and Scotch Shepherd. He lives happily with his master, Judge Miller, in Santa Clara, California during the late 19th century. However, one night he is taken away and ends up on a ship bound for the Yukon. On the journey, a crew member uses violence to maintain discipline towards Buck. When they eventually reach Alaska, John Thornton loses his harmonica which Buck retrieves for him just before being sold to Perrault and Francoise. They run a dog sled team that delivers ...

The American animated adventure comedy film, The Croods (2013), produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox, follows the survival of a cave family amidst several natural disasters. Grug, the stubborn father, refuses to let anyone leave their shelter except for short periods to gather food. His teenage daughter Eep loves her family but often defies Grug’s strict rules. One night, she sneaks out after seeing a light and meets a modern human boy named Guy and his pet sloth Belt. Guy warns her about an impending apocalypse and offers to help her escape, but Eep chooses to stay with her family. As she returns home, Guy gives her a shell horn ...

How to Train Your Dragon (2010), an animated film based on the book by Cressida Cowell, follows the story of Hiccup, the son of Viking chieftain Stoick the Vast. The village of Berk is constantly under attack by dragons, and Hiccup, who is considered too weak to fight, instead devotes himself to creating mechanical devices with guidance from village blacksmith, Gobber. When he accidentally shoots down a rare dragon known as a Night Fury, he can’t bring himself to kill it. As Stoick prepares to lead a strike against the dragons’ nest, he enrolls Hiccup in dragon-fighting training with fellow teens Fishlegs, ...