Top 10 Most Controversial Disney Movies of All Time

The Top Ten
1 Mulan (2020)

Was shamelessly filmed in close proximity to a number of Islamophobic concentration camps in China. It made things worse by openly thanking the government of the province responsible for those camps in the film's credits.

2 Song of the South

Song of the South is so controversial that it's actually been banned in the U.S. It raises the question of why people are more forgiving of Gone with the Wind, which treads similar waters and also features Hattie McDaniel. If anything, Gone with the Wind glorified slavery even more than Song of the South did.

This is the Disney movie so controversial that Disney has gone out of its way to make everyone forget it ever existed.

I almost feel like you can begin and end this list with Song of the South. Even Disney seems largely embarrassed by it.

3 Peter Pan

This movie is extremely controversial nowadays due to the horrible and racist depiction of Indigenous Peoples of North America.

4 Dumbo
5 The Black Cauldron
6 Aladdin
7 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
8 Alice in Wonderland
9 Lady and the Tramp
10 The Lone Ranger (2013)

Thank God Disney never changed Big Thunder Mountain into this travesty of a movie.

The Contenders
11 The Three Caballeros
12 Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
13 Savage Sam

This movie glorifies genocide against Indigenous peoples. I'm surprised it hasn't received the same treatment as Song of the South.

14 Planes

Every single character in this movie is a painfully unfunny racial stereotype.

15 Pocahontas
16 Mr. Magoo

It makes a mockery of the nearsighted and the elderly, and the "comedy" isn't even that funny.

17 The Aristocats

Who thought that Chinese Siamese cat was a good idea?

18 Bambi
19 The Little Mermaid
20 Ralph Breaks the Internet

Not terrible! This is my favorite animated movie for one reason and one reason only: 2 words - Rick-Roll.

21 Fantasia

It used to be a lot more racist thanks to one particular character.

22 Melody Time

This movie is right up there with Peter Pan in terms of frightening racism.

The Pecos Bill segment has sadly not aged well.

23 The Rescuers
24 Frozen
25 The Lion King

All of the hyenas seem to be racial stereotypes of sorts.

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