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Once Upon a Time... Man (1978)
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Once Upon a Time... Man (1978)
Original name: Il était une fois… l'Homme
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, History, War
Country: France, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Once Upon a Time… Man is a French animated TV series from 1978 directed by Albert Barillé. It is the first in the Once Upon a Time... franchise. The series explains world history in a format designed for children. The action focuses around one group. The same familiar characters appear in all episodes as they deal with the problems of their time. The series' opening and ending title sequences famously used Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor as the main title theme music. Shortening the piece to only 2 minutes in length, the introduction uses the very beginning, which jumps into the start of the middle section and finally the dramatic ending to coincide with the destruction of Earth at the end of the intro.
Style: retro, anime, serious, captivating, witty, prehistoric, educational
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: viking, ancient rome, ancient, peplum, world history, european history, escapades, society, elderly, imaginary, wisdom of life, human nature, dedicated educator, dinosaur, religion, evolution, ancient history, wise man, prehistoric animal, beard, family
Time: middle ages, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, 15th century, 1910s, 17th century ...
Keyword: educational film

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, serious, captivating and semi serious films and TV series with plots about escapades, imaginary, friendship, youth, young heroes, friends and heroes mostly in Animation, Family and Adventure genres. Some movies like Once Upon a Time... Man: Liberty's Kids (2002), SuperBook (1981), The Flying House (1982), Vicky the Viking (1974), David the Gnome (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Once Upon a Time... Planet Earth (2009)
Genre: Animation
Country: France
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Teenagers, the internationally-recognized characters of the series, will be the heroes of adventures in which they will play an active role. They will be a force for change, faced with situations and problems they need to resolve. The series will be ...
Style: captivating, serious, light, tense, educational
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: global warming, wisdom of life, environmentalism, wise man, society, environmental health, imaginary, save the planet, escapades, contamination, environmental, environmental issue ...
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Liberty's Kids (2002)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Liberty's Kids is an animated educational historical fiction television series produced by DIC Entertainment, originally broadcast on PBS Kids from September 2, 2002 to April 4, 2003, although PBS continued to air reruns until August 2004. The ...
Style: educational, captivating, semi serious, realistic, period piece ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: american revolution, journalism, revolution, freedom, slavery, independence movement, educational program, idealism, leadership, usa history, state affairs, society ...
Time: 18th century, 1770s
Place: philadelphia
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100%
Once Upon a Time Was the Space (1982)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Canada, Argentina
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Once Upon a Time… Space is a French/Japanese animated TV series from 1982, directed by Albert Barillé. The series was animated in Japan by the animation studio Eiken, and is thus considered to be anime as it also aired on Japanese TV, albeit not ...
Style: anime, futuristic, captivating, serious, educational
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: space opera, robot, space travel, outer space, wise man, spacewalk, space station, wisdom of life, computer system, mars, human nature, space and aliens ...
Time: future
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100%
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SuperBook (1981)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, History, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Superbook, also known as Animated Parent and Child Theatre, is an anime television series initially produced by Tatsunoko Productions in Japan in conjunction with the Christian Broadcasting Network in the United States and more recently solely ...
Style: anime, biblical, contemplative, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: bible, time travel, religions or cults, ancient history, escapades, imaginary, young heroes, hopes, society, youth, christianity, christian ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Flying House (1982)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, History, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Corky, Angey, and Justin are playing hide and seek in the woods when a sudden storm appears and they come upon a house in the woods. They go inside and meet Professor Bumble and his Solar Ion Robot, SIR. They discover the house is a flying time ...
Style: anime, serious, exciting
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: time travel, faith, society, escapades, young heroes, youth, imaginary, hopes, religions or cults, technology gone awry, ancient history, christianity ...
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Vicky the Viking (1974)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Austria, Japan, West Germany
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Vicky is the only son of Halvar, the formidable viking chief. Vicky renounces violence but nevertheless he is able to convince the seasoned viking warriors to take him along on their voyages. In dangerous situations, where their bravery and force ...
Style: anime, serious, exciting
Audience: kids
Plot: viking, young heroes, escapades, chief, battles, parents and children, danger
Time: middle ages
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Once Upon a Time... Life (1987)
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: France, Japan, Canada, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Netherlands
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Il était une fois... la vie is a French animated television series which tells the story of the human body for children. The program was originally produced in France in 1987 by Procidis and directed by Albert Barillé. The series consists of 26 ...
Style: anime, fairy tale, retro, serious, captivating ...
Audience: kids, toddlers, family friendly, family outing, preschool
Plot: occupation, bacteria, wise man, wisdom of life, human nature, dedicated educator, society, escapades, imaginary, human, virus, cell ...
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13%
David the Gnome (1985)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Spain
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The World of David the Gnome, originally titled David el Gnomo, is a Spanish animated television series based on the children's book The Secret Book of Gnomes, by the Dutch author Wil Huygen and illustrator Rien Poortvliet. The program was ...
Style: fairy tale, retro, serious, sentimental, feel good
Audience: kids
Plot: love, friendship, giant, bird, imaginary, doctors and patients, danger, elderly, escapades, wise man, friends, animal life ...
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Eek! the Cat (1992)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Eek! The Cat is a Canadian-American animated series, created by Savage Steve Holland and Bill Kopp and produced by Fox Kids and Savage Studios with animation by Nelvana, that ran from 1992 to 1997.
Style: not serious, anime, retro, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, weirdo, silly humor, disorder, selflessness, animal life, friends, nothing goes right, friendship, escapades, imaginary, anthropomorphic animal ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1980)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Japan, Austria, West Germany
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Nils Holgersson is a young boy on a farm who is cruel to the animals. But when he catches the farm's little goblin it becomes one prank too many. He is magically shrunk and suddenly the farm animals are out for revenge. He flees on the back of ...
Style: anime, retro, serious, feel good
Audience: kids
Plot: bird, animal, youth, imaginary, dwarf, mischievous children, partner, fairy, friendship, friends, coming of age, escapades ...
Time: year 1980
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Adventures of Alfred J. Quack (1989)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands, Japan, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Alfred J. Kwak is a cartoon television series based on a Dutch theatre show by Herman van Veen and was co-produced by VARA, Telecable Benelux B.V. and TV Tokyo and first shown in 1989. It consists of 52 episodes. The series characters were designed ...
Style: adult animation, retro, serious, touching, clever ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: orphan, heroes, politics, circus, animal life, treason, friends, injustice, young heroes, escapades, imaginary, society ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Mysterious Cities of Gold (1982)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Japan, Luxembourg
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: The adventures of a young Spanish boy named Esteban who joins a voyage to the New World in search of the lost Cities of Gold and his father.
Style: anime, retro, manga, serious, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: legends and myths, ancient mystery, orphan, treasure, stuttering, missing person, friendship, el dorado, youth, adventurer, heroes, young heroes ...
Time: 16th century
Place: latin america, peru, andes mountains
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (1976)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Italy is in a deep depression, so to support her family, Marco's mother goes to Argentina to work as a domestic. But after she writes to her family that she is sick, her letters stop coming. So Marco decides to go to Argentina to look for ...
Style: anime, juvenile, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: friendship, child in peril, seaport, friends, family relations, on the road, twists and turns, parents and children, youth, obsessive quest, young heroes, pets ...
Time: 19th century, 70s
Place: argentina, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Around the World with Willy Fog (1983)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Spain, Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Around the World with Willy Fog is a cartoon adaptation of Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. The cartoon was produced by Spanish studio BRB Internacional with animation by Japanese studio Nippon Animation. In the same vein as ...
Style: humorous, anime, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: race against time, travel, on the road, master and servant, escapades, bet, chases and races, odd couple, obsessive quest, police, anthropomorphism, rescue ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Hey! Bumboo (1985)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 10 min.
TV show
Story: Bumboo is a talking car, innocent in many ways, Bumboo searches for her mother throughout many adventures and dangers, battling villains and stopping thieves while discovering that she may not be the only talking car of her kind in the world.
Style: anime, stylized, humorous, semi serious, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: friendship, schoolboy, rivalry, car chase, silly humor, friends, young heroes, imaginary, escapades, heroes, car race, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Adventures from the Book of Virtues (1996)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Growing up can be confusing! When Zach and Annie face difficulties in their lives, they go to special place called Plato’s Peak. There, Plato—a talking buffalo!—and his friends are always willing to lend a helping hand.
Style: educational, humorous, clever, offbeat, serious ...
Audience: kids, toddlers, family outing, preschool
Plot: dignity, best friend, religion, teaching the ways of the world, escapades, imaginary, young boy, greek mythology, native american, rocky mountains, anthropomorphic animal, bible story ...
Time: 1900s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Don Chuck Story (1975)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Chuck, the beaver.
Style: anime, humorous, semi serious, touching, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: friendship, friends, family relations, kids in trouble, parents and children, escapades, animal life, danger, youth, beaver, kids and family
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Wisdom of the Gnomes (1987)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Wisdom of the Gnomes is an animated series produced by Spanish company BRB Internacional about Gnomes. It was a spin-off of the series The World of David the Gnome. It was based on the books The Secret Book of Gnomes by Wil Huygen. Other sequels, ...
Style: uplifting, serious, sentimental
Audience: kids
Plot: gnome, woods, wise man, animal life, friends, wisdom of life, friendship, dangerous animal, elderly, imaginary, danger, escapades ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Taotao (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family
Country: West Germany, Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Taotao has adventures with his animal friends and listens to the stories of his mother, the mother panda.
Style: contemplative, serious, touching, feel good, anime
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: mouse, friendship, parents and children, imaginary, hopes, escapades, animal life, youth, best friend, coming of age, woods, panda ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Seabert (1984)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Seabert is an animated television series from 1985. It was created by BZZ films in Paris and originally aired in French before being translated into different languages around the world. In the United States, the show aired on HBO starting in 1987. ...
Style: retro, semi serious, exciting, thought provoking
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: seal the animal, world spanning, friends, environmentalism, animal life, save the planet, friendship, adventurer, young heroes, danger, youth, society ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Super Why! (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Super Why! or The Reading Adventures of Super Why! is a CGI animated show developed by Angela C. Santomero and Samantha Freeman Alpert. The TV series is produced by New York City-based Out of the Blue Enterprises and Toronto-based DHX Media through ...
Style: educational, fairy tale, entertaining, light, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: team, clue, book, teaching the ways of the world, escapades, imaginary, superhero, friendship, ethnicity, heroes, princess, pig ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Kimba the White Lion (1965)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The adventures of a brave and optimistic little white lion, moral leader for good animals in a jungle surrounded by dangers.
Style: anime, retro, semi serious, exciting
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: monkey, propaganda, white supremacy, ape, jungle adventure, orphan, danger, heroes, rivalry, escapades, animal life, animal ...
Time: 60s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Chaotic (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Chaotic is an American-Canadian animated fantasy television series produced by 4Kids Entertainment and animated by Bardel Entertainment. It is based on the Danish trading card game of the same name. Much of the plot is based on the original ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, anime, dark fantasy
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: supernatural ability, supernatural, good versus evil, heroes, imaginary, danger, imaginary kingdom, young heroes, rivalry, parallel world, escapades, battles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Denver, the Last Dinosaur (1988)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Filled with magic, warmth and friendship, join the adventures of a fun-loving dinosaur and his group of ingenious young friends: Jeremy, Mario, Wally, Heather, Casey and Shades. Pursued by fortune seekers, Denver always finds himself in the middle ...
Style: anime, retro, semi serious, feel good, exciting
Audience: kids
Plot: dinosaur, childhood, escapades, imaginary, siblings relations, friends, friendship, teenage life, skateboard, anthropomorphism, prosecutor, teenager
Place: los angeles, usa, california, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Toot & Puddle (2008)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The show focuses on the lives of two adventurous pigs, Toot and Puddle. The two live in Woodcock Pocket with Puddle's cousin Opal and their parrot friend Tulip. In each episode the duo learns about a different place or culture. During the ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, captivating
Audience: kids
Plot: friendship, cartoon pig, best friend, escapades, buddies, imaginary, talking animal, friends, pig
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Make Way for Noddy (2001)
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story: Noddy, a wooden boy who lives in Toyland, introduces social concepts. He has big musical adventures with his friends and a very big imagination.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: young heroes, mischievous children, best friend, youth, escapades, child, child protagonist, stop motion
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Sengoku BASARA: Samurai Kings (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, War
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: During the Sengoku period, there are many factions constantly at war. One of these is led by a one-eyed man named Date Masamune and another by the imposing Takeda Shingen. The latter has a fiercely loyal subordinate named Sanada Yukimura who goes ...
Style: anime, exciting, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot: samurai, rivalry, heroes, danger, chaos, society, artificial intelligence, imaginary, escapades, curses spells and rituals, campaign, war ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli (1989)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Jungle Book Shōnen Mowgli is an anime adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's original collection of stories, The Jungle Book. It aired in 1989, and consists of a total of 52 episodes. The series, a compromise between the original Mowgli stories and ...
Style: anime, retro, epic, sentimental
Audience: kids
Plot: jungle book, wolf, jungle adventure, orphan, black panthers, snake, tiger, surrogate family, bear, feral child, jungle
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Magic School Bus Rides Again (2017)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Ms. Frizzle's sister takes her class on a slew of wild science adventures in this update of the beloved animated show.
Style: educational, humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: young heroes, escapades, miraculous event, teachers and students, children, technology, school teacher, schoolboy, education, science, school, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series (2001)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: Welcome to the world of Avonlea, home to the irrepressible Anne Shirley. Avonlea is an exciting place to live especially as Anne's vivid imagination is always causing havoc for her and her friends. Anne is very, very good at getting herself and ...
Style: feel good, stylized, touching, educational, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: orphan, adoption, family life, youth, anne of green gables, redhead girl, escapades, friends, problem solving, adventuress, friendship, family relations ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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