Anything and everything on pbs

• The Lion King (original)
• Mulan (original)
• Jurassic Park
• Princess Mononoke
• Castle in the Sky
• Spirited Away
• Forrest Gump
• Aladdin (original)
• Men in Black
• Galaxy Quest
• Home Alone
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• The Matrix
• Toy Story
• Top Gun
• The Terminator
• A Charlie Brown Christmas

• Yu Yu Hakusho
• Cowboy Bebop

Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli For Younger Kids:

• My Neighbor Totoro
• Ponyo
• Spirited Away
• The Secret World of Arietty
• Kiki’s Delivery Service
• Pom Poko

For maybe when they’re getting older?

• Howl’s Moving Castle
• The Wind Risees
• Castle In The Sky
• Princess Mononoke
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Some other decent ones for kids of various ages:

Animated/Claymation

Series:

• Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
• Alvin & The Chipmunks
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers
• Ducktales
• Gumby
• Inspector Gadget
• Rugrats
• Rescue Rangers
• Scooby Doo
• Yogi Bear

Movies:

• Alice in Wonderland
• All Dogs go to Heaven
• An American Tail
• An American Tail: Fivel Goes West
• The Black Cauldron
• Charlotte’s Web
• FernGully
• James and the Giant Peach
• The Land Before Time
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Peter Pan
• Pinochio
• RobinHood
• The Rescuers
• The Rescuers Down Under
• The Secret of NIMH
• The Sword in the Stone
• Thumbelina
• Wallace and Gromit (All of them are great)

Live Action Series:

• Bill Nye The Science Guy
• Beakmans World

Movies:

• Beetlejuice
• Casper
• Ernest Goes to School (and all the other ones really)
• Honey I Shrunk The Kids
• Hook
• Jumanji
• E.T.
• Edward Scissor Hands
• Flubber
• Ghost Busters
• The Goonies
• Labyrinth (Creepier vibe than I remember)
• The Little Rascals
• Mary Poppins
• Mr. Mom
• Mrs. Doubtfire
• The Never Ending Story
• Operation Dumbo Drop
• Patch Adams
• Sandlot
• Short Circuit
• Space Jam
• Toys
• Tron
• We’re back a dinosaur story
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Animated and Live Action)

Edit: awful formatting… And typos

Speedracer (probably at 5+ age)
Magic School Bus (original)
Arthur
Bluey
Bill Nye

The Neverending Story

Maggie and the Ferocious Beast (the first English cartoon I remember watching), Rolie Polie Olie, Martha Speaks, Franklin, Little Bear, Total Drama Island/Action, and 6Teen taught me English when I came to Canada.

Star Trek got me started on my path to tankiehood and sci-fi writing. Futurama also significantly contributed to the latter.

Pokemon, Wonderpets and Redwall (and many of the cartoons from the learning English category) got me interested in writing animal characters. Zootopia pissed me off so much with its inconsistent world building that it sealed the deal and made me obsessed with perfecting my own fictional animal world.

Family Guy taught me how not to write characters and their interactions.

How It’s Made is just awesome and satisfying, no further comments.

Good on you for setting up the Jellyfin early, it’s still on my to-do list

My personal favorite childhood movies/shows that made a real impact:

Fern Gully, the Disney animated originals (not remakes) mentioned elsewhere in the thread, Nightmare Before Christmas, Princess Bride, Neverending Story, Star Trek 4 (the whales one), Toy Story

Star Trek TNG and TOS, the old school B/W Addams Family, OG Looney Tunes, Nature on PBS, Nova on PBS, Mr Rogers, Arthur

Additional stuff I’ll be adding to my own kid’s Jellyfin (when I get to it)

Avatar the Last Airbender, Kipo and the Wonderbeasts, She-Ra:PoP (the Netflix one), Bluey, Storybots, Puffin Rock, Lucas the Spider, Trash Truck, Ms Rachel, Daniel Tiger, Elinor Wonders Why

Cosmos

All the ghibli movies

Sesame Street, Muppets, The Electric Company.

Completely dated, but these older shows introduced a white kid in whitesville to a completely different world. Plus fun, educational in a way that kids don’t mind.

Avatar the last Airbender taught me to think when in conflict

Surprised PBS shows aren’t mentioned more here, especially not Mr. Rogers Neighborhood being mentioned.

So in no particular order:

• Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood: great show for teaching kids to how to navigate emotions and complex situations like death and discrimination but in ways they can understand

• Sesame Street: similar to Mr. Rogers but more for younger children

• Bill Nye the Science Guy: Made science accessible and fun for children. Good way to build a sense of curiosity and desire for experimentation

• Zoom: similar to Bill Nye in that it made me what to try all the activities they shared. Lots of fun games, recipes, brain teasers etc to keep kids busy. The fact that it had an all kid cast made it more accessible as a kid. Highly recommended since it seems less remembered than other PBS shows

Non-Educational:

• The Simpsons: this may be divisive but I grew up when they were super popular and I believe it helped develop my sense of humor. The earlier episodes were also pretty wholesome

• The Avatar (Last Airbender and Korra): well written show that is based on many East Asian cultures and touches on themes of depression, genocide, war, and hope (among many others). One of my favorite shows to this day

I am going to be a father and am making a jellyfin setup for my child. I want to start early to make a good collection of movies and shows.

Me too!

I have Bluey and The Magic Schoolbus.

Bluey. It’s a really positive modern show , so not really from my childhood but it beats everything else from my childhood.

Anything Mr. Bean.