Dumbo

Dumbo (1941) is the classic Disney animated film you can watch online on iFILM. A circus elephant calf is born with ears far too big, and the whole show laughs at him.

The little one arrives under a travelling big top, and those enormous ears make him an outcast before he can even walk. The other elephants mock him, and his mother is chained up after she lunges to protect him. Dumbo's only friend is Timothy, a brash little mouse who insists those ears are a gift, not a flaw. The calf never speaks a single line; his eyes carry the whole story.

Released during a lean stretch for the studio, the picture runs just 64 minutes, the shortest of Disney's early features. The pink-elephants sequence and the lullaby Baby Mine became landmarks of animation. It's family viewing that lands as hard on grown-ups as it does on kids. Stream Dumbo (1941) online on iFILM.