You’re Not Crazy: Disney+ Movies Aren’t Actually Listed in Alphabetical Order
And we were bored enough to find out just how off they are
A special collaboration with the amazing Siarra Brielle Bazler
What is up with Disney’s alphabetization on their streaming service, anyway? Do they put all their brainpower into controlling our collective cultural memory through copyright lobbying and just don’t have enough time left to do a basic, alphabetized list?
I mean, I get it; some of their movies are somehow labeled as “Disney’s [Whatever]” and so they all just get sorted into the D section, but that doesn’t explain why pretty much every letter category starts over half way through.
Anyway, we were bored, so we sat down and wrote out every single movie on Disney+’s “All Movies A-Z” category, at least according to the Roku App (a cursory glance at Disney + in browser collaborates this pitiful display of organization). Mistakes have been starred. Line breaks have been inserted when the alphabetization just gets starts over for no reason.
Feel free to skim to your favorites, if you can find them in this shoddy alphabetization.
Numerals:
10 Things I Hate About You
101 Dalmations
101 Dalmations 2
102 Dalmations
*12 Dates of Christmas (The system isn’t smart enough to put numerals in layman’s order. Even Windows does that.)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
A:
A Celebration of the Music from Disney/Pixar Coco
A Ring of Endless Light
A Tale of Two Critters (Yes, these first three films have been alphabetized by their article, “a,” rather than relevant, titular metadata)
The Absent-Minded Professor
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
The Adventures of Huck Finn
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Aladdin
Alice in Wonderland
Aliens of the Deep
Almost Angels
America’s Heart & Soul
Amy
(Marvel Studios) Ant-Man (You’ll see why this is notated this way in this list later.)
Apollo: Missions to the Moon
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
*The Apple Dumpling Gang (Based on how I was taught to alphabetize things, this one should definitely be ordered before the other one.)
Arendelle Castle Yule Log
The Aristocats
Around the World in 80 Days
Atlantis Rising
*Atlantis Milo’s Return (There’s no excuse here.)
(Marvel Studios) Avengers: Endgame
Adventures in Babysitting
True Life Adventures: The African Lion (Based on being housed between Adventures in Babysitting and Aladdin, it is unclear if this title is being categorized by “Adventures” or “African.”)
**Aladdin
Aladdin and the King of Thieves
Alice in Wonderland
Alley Cats Strike!
Annie
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Avalon High
Avatar
B:
Babes in Toyland
Bambi
The Bears and I
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (Look! They did it right with this one.)
Because of Winn-Dixie
Bedtime Stories
*Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World (I spoke too soon. Now we’re categorizing by the sub-title.)
The BFG
Big Business
Big Hero 6
The Biscuit Eater
Bizarre Dinosaurs
The Black Cauldron
(Marvel Studios) Black Panther
*Blackbeard’s Ghost
Bolt
The Boy Who Talked to Badgers
Breaking 2 (Unfortunately this is not an Electric Boogaloo)
Brother Bear
Brother Bear 2 (Hey! They managed to get this one in the right order.)
A Bug’s Life
**Bad Hair Day
Bambi II
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Before the Flood
Benji: The Hunted (Aside on this one: What the heck? Don’t hunt dogs!)
The Black Hole
Blank Check
Brave
The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
Brink!
Buffalo Dreams
C:
Cadet Kelly
Can of Worms
*Candleshoe
(Marvel Studios) Captain America: Civil War
(Marvel Studios) Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Cars
Cars 3
The Castaway Cowboy
The Cat from Outer Space
Cheaper by the Dozen
Cheetah
The Cheetah Girls 2
*The Cheetah Girls
The Christmas Star
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (You might think there’s a mistake coming up somewhere with the Dawn Treader being categorized by the subtitle, but alas, Disney just doesn’t have it.)
Cinderella
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (The have it figured out for this series)
Coco
Coco in Spanish
The Color of Friendship
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos
**Camp Nowhere
Camp Rock
Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
Cars 2 (Ah! There you are. We missed you up there.)
Casebusters
The Cheetah Girls: One World (Oh - who knew there was another one of these, too).
Chicken Little
Cloud 9
College Road Trip
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Cool Runnings
The Country Bears
Cow Belles
D:
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
Deep Blue
Descendants
Dianna: In Her Own Words
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Disneyland Around the Seasons
(Marvel Studios) Doctor Strange
*Disney Nature Dolphin Reef (Most of the other movies in this series are alphabetized by “Disney Nature” soooo this one is a bit of a lost duck.)
Doug’s 1st Movie
Drain the Sunken Pirate City
Dumbo
**Dadnapped
Darby O Gill and the Little People
Davy Crocket: King of the Wild Frontier
Decorating Disney: Holiday Magic
Den Brother
Descendants 2 (Hello, there)
Descendants 3
Dinosaur
Disney Nature: African Cats
Disney Nature: Bears
Disney Nature: Born in China
Disney Nature: Chimpanzee
Disney Nature: Monkey Kingdom
*Disney Nature: Diving with Dolphins (Looks like we’ve shifted, mid-series, back to alphabetizing by the specific documentary title, rather than the series title.)
*Dr. Doolittle (This film seems to be categorized by the word “doctor” rather than the abbreviation, “Dr.”)
*Dr. Doolittle 2 (“doctor”)
Don’t Look Under the Bed
Double Teamed
Drain Alcatraz
Drain the Bermuda Triangle
Drain the Great Lakes
Drain the Oceans: WWII
Drain the Titanic
Ducktales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
E:
Earth Live
Eddie’s Million Dollar Cook-Off
Eight Below
Emil and the Detectives
The Emperor’s New Groove
Escape to Witch Mountain
An Extremely Goofy Movie
**Easter Island: Unsolved
Disney Nature: Elephant
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
The Even Stevens Movie
Expedition Amelia
Expedition Mars: Spirit and Opportunity
F:
Fantastia
Fantasia 2000
Finding Dory
Finding Nemo
The Finest Hours
Flight of the Navigator
The Flood
Flubber
The Fox and the Hound 2
The Fox and the Hound (Really unclear how sometimes their alphabetizing scheme gets this right and sometimes it doesn’t? Roman numerals vs. numbers doesn’t seem to be the trick.)
Frankenweenie
Freaky Friday
Free Solo
Frozen
Full Court Miracle
Fun and Fancy Free
**Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings Special
Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings Holiday Magic (These two are bizarre because their title formats use the “Disney’s” marker, but they’re alphabetized without it, and then proceed to fail to actually be listed in alphabetical order relative to each other.)
First Kid
Frank and Ollie
Frankenweenie (I feel like I’ve seen this listed before….)
Freaky Friday (This deja vu is getting eerie)
Freaky Friday (Are you kidding me?)
Frenemies
Frozen II (Ah man - Disney split up one of their most popular recent animated films from its early-release sequel? What a shame.)
Fuzzbucket
G:
G-Force
*The Game Plan (Ok, so the alphabetization scheme clearly thinks all spaces and special characters should come before any letters at all. We’re making progress in deciphering it, people.)
Genius
George of the Jungle 2 (>facepalm< Also, Disney seems to only have the sequel, but not the original, Fun times.)
Get a Clue
Glory Road
Go Figure
A Goofy Movie
Greyfriar’s Bobby
(Marvel Studios) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
**Geek Charming
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
Giants of the Deep Blue
Girl vs. Monster
Going to the Mat
The Good Dinosaur
Good Luck Charlie: It’s Christmas!
Gotta Kick It Up!
The Great Mouse Detective
The Great Muppet Caper
The Greatest Game Ever Played (Here’s another instance of prioritizing spaces over letters/words as being earlier in the alphabet. There are surely standards about this, but based on the other crimes we’re seeing here, there’s something about their automation that isn’t cutting it.)
Gus
H:
Hacksaw
Halloweentown
Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge
Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Worlds Concert
The Haunted Mansion
Heavyweights
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Holes
Home on the Range
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (If I watch this first, I’m sure I’ll miss some sort of essential context from the original. Right?)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
Horse Sense
Hounded
How Dogs Got Their Shapes (Spoiler: the answer is irresponsible breeding)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
**Halloweentown High
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Hatching Pete
Herbie Goes Bananas
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Herbie Rides Again
Herbie Fully Loaded
Hercules
High School Musical
High School Musical 2
High School Musical: The Musical, the Series, the Special (This title is an affront to nature)
Hocus Pocus
Home Alone 3 (Ah, the one without Macaulay Culkin, and the only one Disney has streaming.)
How to Build a Better Boy
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
I:
*I’ll Be Home for Christmas (L before C? Ok, starting strong, I section)
Ice Princess
Disney Nature In the Footsteps of Elephant (Yes, this is really the title. Many footsteps, one elephant.)
The Incredible Dr. Pol: Blue Ribbon Kids
The Incredible Dr. Pol: Jingle Pols
The Incredible Journey
The Incredibles
Inside Out
(Marvel Studios) Iron Man
(Marvel Studios) Iron Man 3 (We seem to have missed something, here)
**Ice Age
Ice Age: The Great Eggscapade (When did Disney start owning these, anyway?)
The Incredible The Story of Dr. Pol (Or maybe The Incredible Dr. Pol: The Story of? We had some trouble with this one and Disney doesn’t provide text-based titles, just images of the posters and some word art. It really isn’t very accessible.)
Inspector Gadget
Inspector Gadget 2
Into the Grand Canyon
Into the Okavango
Invincible
Invisible Sister
Iron Man Hulk: Heroes United (Is this how you read this title out loud?)
Iron Will
J:
Jack
James and the Giant Peach
Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board
Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jump In!
*Jungle2Jungle (This is an outlier. We’ll be lenient.)
The Jungle Book 2
The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book: Mowgli’s Story
True Life Adventures: Jungle Cat
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
**Jane
Johnny Tsunami
The Journey of Natty Gann
Journey to Shark Eden
Jumping Ship
K:
Kazaam
A Kid in King Arthur’s Court
Kingdom of the Blue Whale
Kronk’s New Groove
**Kim Possible
Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama
Kingdom of the Apes: Battle Lines
L:
Lady and the Tramp
Lady and the Tramp
Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
The Last Song
Life with Mikey
*Life-Size 2 (Last I checked, “W” comes after “S”, but apparently, “ “ comes before “-“)
Lilo and Stitch
Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
*The Lion King 1 1/2 (An interesting Lion King to start with)
*The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride (It would logically come after 1.5, just not in release order. I’ll give them that.)
*The Lion King (But then we have this. Why… is this last???)
*The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (We must be going backwards?)
*The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning (Actually, I’ve never heard of this one, so I can’t say.)
True Life Adventures: Living Desert
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great
The Luck of the Irish
**Lemonade Mouth
Leroy and Stitch
Let It Shine
Life is Ruff
The Lion King
The Little Mermaid
The Love Bug
M:
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Mars: Inside Spacex
Meet the Deedles
Meet the Robinsons
Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas
*Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (Questionable, frankly)
Mighty Joe Young
Million Dollar Duck
Millions
Miracle at Midnight
Miracle in Lane 2
Miracle Landing on the Hudson
Moana
Mom’s Got a Date with a Vampire
Monsters University
Monsters, Inc. (No. Just No. This is why human’s should at least look over your computer’s work before you publish.)
Mr. Boogedy
Mulan
Mulan II
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Muppet Treasure Island
*Muppets Most Wanted
*The Muppets
My Dog, the Thief
My Favorite Martian
**Man Among Cheetahs
Mars Needs Moms
Marvel: 75 Years from Pulp to Pop!
Marvel Rising: Battle of the Bands
Marvel Rising: Chasing Ghosts
Marvel Rising: Heart of Iron
Marvel Rising: Operation Shuri
Marvel Rising: Playing with Fire
Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors
*(Marvel Studios) Avengers: Age of Ultron
*(Marvel Studios) Captain America: The First Avenger
*(Marvel Studios) Captain Marvel
*(Marvel Studios) Guardians of the Galaxy
*(Marvel Studios) Iron Man 2 (Oh, here this one is. Down here, hiding under “marvel studios.” Good job, somebody. Way to check your work.)
**(Marvel Studios) The Avengers (Are … are we even trying, here?)
*(Marvel Studios) Thor
*(Marvel Studios) Thor: The Dark World
**(Marvel Studios) Assembling a Universe
Mary Poppins
Melody Time
Mickey’s Christmas Carol
Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas
Minutemen
Miracle
Miracle on 34th Street
Mission to the Sun
The Mistle-tones: A Musical
Motocrossed
The Muppet Movie: The Original Classic
N:
National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets (No OG National Treasure. Did they think we wouldn’t notice?)
Newsies: The Broadway Musical
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Noelle
**Newsies
Now You See It
O:
Old Dogs
Old Yeller
Oliver and Company
*101 Dalmations (Unlike the live action version and the sequel, this is clearly being categorized by the spelling, “one-hundred” vs. the numerals. Tsk tsk.)
Operation Dumbo Drop
**The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Olaf’s Frozen Adventure
Once Upon a Mattress
One Day at Disney
One Magic Christmas
Onward
The Other Me
P:
The Parent Trap
The Parent Trap
Disney Nature: Penguins
Pete’s Dragon
Pete’s Dragon
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
The Plausible Impossible
Pocahontas
Pocahontas II: Journey to the New World
Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
Pooh’s Heffalump Movie
The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince & the Pauper (Apparently, in this case special characters don’t automatically come first, but these are listed in order of release date.)
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
*The Princess Diaries
Prom
**Paris to Pittsburgh
Disney Nature: Penguins: Life on the Edge
The Story of Perri
Peter Pan
Peter Pan: Return to Neverland
Phantom of the Megaplex
*Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel
Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars
Piglet’s Big Movie
Pinocchio
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (There’s a tendency, I’ve noticed, for the originals in series to just… randomly come later?)
Pixel Perfect
Planet of the Birds
Pollyanna
The Poof Point
Princess Protection Program
*The Princess and the Frog
The Proud Family Movie
Q:
Queen of Katwe
Quints
R:
Ratatouille
Read It and Weep
Recess: School’s Out
The Rescuers Down Under
*Aladdin: The Return of Jafar (This is just rude.)
Robin Hood
The Rocketeer
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (What a lonely little Star Wars Movie, away from all its friends.)
Rookie of the Year
Roving Mars
Ruby Bridges
**Ready to Run
Recess: All Growed Down
Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade
Red Tails
The Reluctant Dragon
Remember the Titans
The Rescuers
Return from Witch Mountain
Return to Halloweentown (This isn’t alphabetized improperly, but the creators certainly didn’t do future viewers any favors here. How are new viewers even supposed to find this movie?)
Return to Oz
Richie Rich’$ Christmas Wish
Right on Track
Rip Girls
The Rookie
S:
Sacred Planet
Saludos Amigos
Sammy the Way-Out Seal
The Sandlot: Heading Home
Santa Clause 2
Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
*The Santa Clause (Who named these three films? Why don’t the naming schemas match? Why are they listed in a completely random order?)
Saving Mr. Banks
Science Fair
*The Secret of the Magic Gourd
Secretariat
Secrets of Life
The Shaggy Dog
Shipwrecked
The Sign of Zorro
The Simpsons Movie
Sister Act
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (The got this one right, at least)
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snowball Express
The Sound of Music
Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Episode VIII
Lego Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles: Clash of the Skywalkers
Lego Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles: Duel of the Skywalkers
Lego Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles: Escape from the Jedi Temple
Lego Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles: Race for the Holocrons
Lego Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles: Raid on Coruscant (I sure hope I’m not supposed to watch these in some kind of relevant order…)
The Story of Robin Hood
The Straight Story (Disney Execs apparently thought The Gay Story wasn’t family friendly enough, so they put it on Hulu instead)
The Strongest Man in the World
Sultan and the Rock Star
Super Buddies
The Swap
Swiss Family Robinson
The Sword in the Stone
**Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
The Scream Team
Sea of Hope: America’s Underwater Treasures
Secret of the Winds
Secrets of Christ’s Tomb: Explorer Special
Secrets of the King Cobra
The Shaggy D.A.
Sharks of Lost Island
Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure
Skyrunners
The Small One
Smart House
Snow Dogs
Snowglobe
Splash
Star Wars: A New Hope: Episode IV
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: Episode II
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi: Episode VI
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: Episode III
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back: Episode V
Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Episode VII
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: Episode I (If you really want to make a Star Wars fan mad, next time they ask you what order you like to watch them in, respond “alphabetically by title”)
**Star Girl
Star Struck
Stepsister from Planet Weird
Stitch! The Movie
Stonehenge Decoded: Secrets Revealed
Stuck in the Suburbs
The Suite Life Movie
Swiss Family Robinson
T:
Tangled
That Darn Cat
The Thirteenth Year
(Marvel Studios) Thor Ragnarok
Those Calloways
The Three Caballeros
Three Men and a Baby
The Three Musketeers
Thumbelina
The Tigger Movie
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy Rescue
Titanic: 20 Years Later with James Cameron
Togo: The Untold True Story
Tom and Huck
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
Toy Story 4 (A whole 4 movie series alphabetized properly? This calls for a celebration!)
Treasure Island
Treasure of Matecumbe
Treasure Planet
Tron
Tru Confessions
Tuck Everlasting
’Twas the Night (Somehow this special character didn’t send this film to the top of the list with 10 Things I Hate About You, so there must be some kind of human oversight, somewhere.)
Twitches
**Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure
Tangled: Before Ever After
Tarzan and Jane
Teacher’s Pet
Teen Beach 2
Teen Beach Movie
Teen Spirit
That Darn Cat
*The Kid (Wow. Just wow.)
Three Days
Three Men and a Little Lady
Tiger Cruise
Tinkerbell
Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure
Tree Climbing Lions
Tron: Legacy
Turner and Hooch
Twitches Too
U:
The Ugly Dachshund
Unidentified Flying Oddball
Up
**The Ultimate Christmas Present
Under the Sea: A Descendents Short Story
Up, Up and Away
V:
Valiant
Viking Warrior Women
**The Vanishing Prairie
W:
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Wall-E
Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
White Fang
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Wild
Willow
Disney Nature: Wings of Life
Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year
Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo
Wreck it Ralph
A Wrinkle in Time
**Whispers: An Elephant’s Tale
Winged Seduction: Birds of Paradise (Ooh la la, could this be the dirtiest thing on Disney+?)
Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex
Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie
*The Wonderful World of Disney: The Little Mermaid, Live (A note here: “The Wonderful World of Disney” was printed so small that we thought they just really, really had no excuse. I’m still going to view this choice with skepticism because that’s really not part of the title and it makes the show hard to find.)
World’s Greatest Dogs
**Trail of the Panda (What on earth is this title doing down here with the Ws? We checked for other markers and nothing explains its presence here.)
Y:
Yellowstone Cubs
The Young Black Stallion
*You Lucky Dog
You Wish
Z:
*Z-o-m-b-i-e-s (I’m just shaking my head at this one.)
Zapped
Zenon: The Zequel
Zenon: Z3
*Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (Whyyyyyy?)
Zootopia
Somehow, you made it to the end of this list. Even if that was by rapid scrolling with occasional skimming, we commend you.
So, what have we learned? A human touch can probably help Disney+ make their ordering system much better, whether that is making sure that they are consistent in labeling their metadata or by double checking what their sorting algorithm spits out. Series should either be categorized by their name or the series title. It shouldn’t just be a crap shoot. Also, Disney+ is not very accessible to low sighted individuals, given the service’s lack of text-based titling. The only way to view titles is by the (frankly tiny) pictures of the movie posters, or (the image of) the title design when you first select a film.
Get on it Disney!
Anyway, thanks for reading. Tune in next time for our in-depth review “Is Disney+’s Alphabetical Order of Star Wars Movies the Ultimate Viewing Order?”
