List of Disney Channel original films

Since its launch on April 18, 1983, American cable and satellite pay television channel Disney Channel airs and/or releases/distributes original first-run television films under the banner names of Disney Channel Premiere Films until October 1997, Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) until March 2023, Disney Original Movie until August 2024, and eventually reverted back to the Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) label in July 2025.^[1]

Most of these films were subsequently released on home video formats such as VHS, DVD, or more recently, Blu-ray, while others were not. Beginning with Princess Protection Program in 2009, releases of DCOMs on DVD months following their television premieres got reduced to a week after television premieres. The 2009 television film also became the first DCOM to appear in high-definition widescreen, although DCOMs have been produced in such a format since the release of Go Figure on June 10, 2005.

The highest-rated premiere for the banner/brand came in August 2007, when High School Musical 2 set a record for basic cable with 17.2 million viewers. The second highest-rated premiere is held by Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, which premiered with 11.4 million viewers. DCOMs include sequels-turned-franchises such as Under Wraps, Halloweentown, Zenon, Twitches, The Cheetah Girls, High School Musical, Camp Rock, Teen Beach, Descendants and Zombies.

During the Memorial Day holiday weekend of 2016, Disney Channel began to air many older DCOMs in a specialized marathon programming block in celebration of its 100th film, Adventures in Babysitting, starting off with the 51 most popular films airing over the four-day weekend from May 27, 2016^[2] and concluding on June 24, 2016 with the premiere of the aforementioned 100th Disney Channel Original Movie.^[3]

From April 5 to May 24, 2021, Disney Channel hosted an eight-week event called "DCOM & Dessert", where a Disney Channel Original Movie would air every Monday night at 7:00 PM. Zombies 2 stars Ariel Martin and Chandler Kinney hosted this event and had their own baking segments where they would make interactive dessert recipes that families could make at home.^[4]

Disney Channel Premiere Films

Disney Channel Original Movies used to be known as Disney Channel Premiere Films from 1983 to 1997

Year	Film	Premiere date	Ref(s)
1983	Tiger Town	October 9, 1983	[5]
1984	Gone Are the Dayes	May 1984	[6]
	Love Leads the Way	October 7, 1984
1985	Black Arrow	January 6, 1985	[7]
	Lots of Luck	February 3, 1985
	The Undergrads	May 5, 1985
	The Blue Yonder	November 17, 1985
1986	The Parent Trap II	July 26, 1986
	Spot Marks the X	October 18, 1986
	Down the Long Hills	November 15, 1986
1987	Strange Companions	February 28, 1987	[Note 1]
	Anne of Avonlea: The Continuing Story of Anne of Green Gables	May 19, 1987
	Not Quite Human	June 19, 1987
	The Christmas Visitor	December 5, 1987
1988	Save the Dog	March 19, 1988
	The Night Train to Kathmandu	June 5, 1988
	Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss	August 6, 1988
	A Friendship in Vienna	August 27, 1988
	Good Old Boy	November 11, 1988
	Goodbye, Miss 4th of July	December 3, 1988
1989	Not Quite Human 2	September 23, 1989
1990	Lantern Hill	January 27, 1990
	Chips, the War Dog	March 24, 1990
	Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme	May 19, 1990
	Back Home	June 7, 1990
	The Little Kidnappers	August 17, 1990
	Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn	October 21, 1990
1991	Bejewelled	January 20, 1991
	Perfect Harmony	March 31, 1991
	Mark Twain and Me	November 22, 1991
1992	Still Not Quite Human	May 31, 1992
1993	The Ernest Green Story	January 17, 1993
	Spies	March 7, 1993	[9]
	Heidi	July 18, 1993
1994	On Promised Land	April 17, 1994
	The Whipping Boy	July 31, 1994
1995	The Old Curiosity Shop	March 19, 1995
	The Four Diamonds	August 12, 1995
1996	The Little Riders	March 24, 1996
	Nightjohn	June 1, 1996
	Susie Q	October 3, 1996	[1]
	Wish Upon a Star	November 12, 1996	[1]
1997	The Paper Brigade	February 25, 1997	[1]
	Northern Lights	August 23, 1997	[Note 2]

Notes

1. First aired in Canada on December 4, 1983.^[8]
2. While some sources identify the 1997 film Northern Lights as the first Disney Channel Original Movie,^[10][11] it was not included in Disney Channel's 100 Original Movies celebration that aired in May–June 2016,^[3] and Disney Channel considers 1997's Under Wraps to be the first official Disney Channel Original Movie.^[12][13]

Disney Channel Original Movies

Year	Film	Premiere date	Ratings (millions)	Ref(s)
1997	Under Wraps	October 25, 1997	N/A	[14]
1998	You Lucky Dog	June 27, 1998	N/A
	Brink!	August 29, 1998	N/A
	Halloweentown	October 17, 1998	3.4	[14][15]
1999	Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century	January 23, 1999	N/A	[14]
	Can of Worms	April 10, 1999	N/A
	The Thirteenth Year	May 15, 1999	N/A
	Smart House	June 26, 1999	N/A
	Johnny Tsunami	July 24, 1999	N/A
	Genius	August 21, 1999	N/A
	Don't Look Under the Bed	October 9, 1999	N/A
	Horse Sense	November 20, 1999	3.2	[16]
2000	Up, Up, and Away	January 22, 2000	N/A
	The Color of Friendship	February 5, 2000	N/A
	Alley Cats Strike	March 18, 2000	N/A
	Rip Girls	April 22, 2000	N/A
	Miracle in Lane 2	May 13, 2000	N/A
	Stepsister from Planet Weird	June 17, 2000	N/A
	Ready to Run	July 14, 2000	N/A
	Quints	August 18, 2000	N/A
	The Other Me	September 8, 2000	N/A
	Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire	October 13, 2000	N/A
	Phantom of the Megaplex	November 10, 2000	N/A
	The Ultimate Christmas Present	December 1, 2000	N/A
2001	Zenon: The Zequel	January 12, 2001	3.7	[17]
	Motocrossed	February 16, 2001	3.5	[17]
	The Luck of the Irish	March 9, 2001	5.2	[18]
	Hounded	April 13, 2001	3.6	[19]
	Jett Jackson: The Movie	June 8, 2001	N/A
	The Jennie Project	July 13, 2001	N/A
	Jumping Ship	August 17, 2001	N/A
	The Poof Point	September 14, 2001	N/A
	Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge	October 12, 2001	6.1	[15]
	'Twas the Night	December 7, 2001	N/A
2002	Double Teamed	January 18, 2002	5.0	[20]
	Cadet Kelly	March 8, 2002	7.8	[21]
	Tru Confessions	April 5, 2002	N/A
	Get a Clue	June 28, 2002	3.2	[22]
	Gotta Kick It Up!	July 26, 2002	N/A
	A Ring of Endless Light	August 23, 2002	N/A
	The Scream Team	October 4, 2002	N/A
2003	You Wish!	January 10, 2003	N/A
	Right on Track	March 21, 2003	N/A
	The Even Stevens Movie	June 13, 2003	5.1	[23]
	Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off	July 18, 2003	3.7	[24]
	The Cheetah Girls	August 15, 2003	6.5	[25][26]
	Full-Court Miracle	November 21, 2003	4.4	[27]
2004	Pixel Perfect	January 16, 2004	3.9	[28]
	Going to the Mat	March 19, 2004	3.9	[29]
	Zenon: Z3	June 11, 2004	4.1	[30]
	Stuck in the Suburbs	July 16, 2004	3.7	[31]
	Tiger Cruise	August 6, 2004	3.8	[32][33]
	Halloweentown High	October 8, 2004	6.1	[15][34][35]
2005	Now You See It...	January 14, 2005	4.3	[36]
	Buffalo Dreams	March 11, 2005	N/A
	Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama	April 8, 2005	4.4	[37]
	Go Figure	June 10, 2005	3.5	[38]
	Life Is Ruff	July 15, 2005	4.3	[39]
	The Proud Family Movie	August 19, 2005	4.8	[40]
	Twitches	October 14, 2005	7.0	[41]
2006	High School Musical	January 20, 2006	7.7	[42][43]
	Cow Belles	March 24, 2006	5.8	[44]
	Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior	June 16, 2006	5.7	[44]
	Read It and Weep	July 21, 2006	5.6	[44]
	The Cheetah Girls 2	August 25, 2006	7.8	[45][25][26]
	Return to Halloweentown	October 20, 2006	7.5	[15][46]
2007	Jump In!	January 12, 2007	8.2	[44][47][48]
	Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board	June 8, 2007	1.8	[49]
	High School Musical 2	August 17, 2007	17.2	[50][51]
	Twitches Too	October 12, 2007	6.9	[52]
2008	Minutemen	January 25, 2008	6.5	[53]
	Camp Rock	June 20, 2008	8.9	[54][55][56][57][58]
	The Cheetah Girls: One World	August 22, 2008	6.2	[59]
2009	Dadnapped	February 16, 2009	4.6	[60]
	Hatching Pete	April 24, 2009	4.1	[61]
	Princess Protection Program	June 26, 2009	8.5	[62]
	Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie	August 28, 2009	11.4	[63][64]
2010	Starstruck	February 14, 2010	6.0	[65]
	Den Brother	August 13, 2010	3.7	[66]
	Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam	September 3, 2010	7.9	[67]
	Avalon High	November 12, 2010	3.8	[68]
2011	The Suite Life Movie	March 25, 2011	5.2	[69][70]
	Lemonade Mouth	April 15, 2011	5.7	[71][72]
	Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure[Note 1]	May 22, 2011	4.9	[75][76]
	Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension	August 5, 2011	7.6	[77]
	Geek Charming	November 11, 2011	4.9	[78]
	Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas!	December 2, 2011	6.9	[79]
2012	Frenemies	January 13, 2012	4.2	[80]
	Radio Rebel	February 17, 2012	4.3	[81]
	Let It Shine	June 15, 2012	5.7	[82][83]
	Girl vs. Monster	October 12, 2012	4.9	[84][85]
2013	Teen Beach Movie	July 19, 2013	8.4	[86][87]
2014	Cloud 9	January 17, 2014	5.0	[88][89]
	Zapped	June 27, 2014	5.7	[90]
	How to Build a Better Boy	August 15, 2014	4.6	[91]
2015	Bad Hair Day	February 13, 2015	4.0	[92][93]
	Teen Beach 2	June 26, 2015	5.8	[94]
	Descendants	July 31, 2015	6.6	[95]
	Invisible Sister	October 9, 2015	4.0	[96]
2016	Adventures in Babysitting	June 24, 2016	3.4	[97]
	The Swap	October 7, 2016	2.6	[98]
2017	Tangled: Before Ever After[Note 2]	March 10, 2017	2.9	[100]
	Descendants 2	July 21, 2017	5.8	[101][102]
2018	Zombies	February 16, 2018	2.6	[103][104]
	Freaky Friday	August 10, 2018	1.6	[105]
2019	Kim Possible	February 15, 2019	1.2	[106][107]
	Descendants 3	August 2, 2019	4.6	[108][109]
2020	Zombies 2	February 14, 2020	2.5	[110]
	Upside-Down Magic	July 31, 2020	1.3	[111][112][113]
2021	Spin	August 13, 2021	0.5	[114][115]
	Under Wraps	October 1, 2021	0.4	[116][117][118][119]
	Christmas...Again?!	December 3, 2021	0.5	[120][121][118][122]
2022	Zombies 3[Note 3]	August 12, 2022	0.3	[125][126][123][127][128]
	Under Wraps 2	September 25, 2022	0.3	[129][130][131]
2025	Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires	July 10, 2025	0.6	[132][133][134][135][136][137][138]

Notes

1. Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure was released on home video on April 19, 2011,^[73] but it aired on Disney Channel on May 22, 2011 as a Disney-branded "Disney Channel Original Movie".^[11][74]
2. While Tangled: Before Ever After effectively serves as the one-hour pilot to Tangled: The Series, it was advertised as a "Disney Channel Original Movie" by Disney Channel.^[99]
3. Zombies 3 was first released on Disney+ on July 15, 2022,^[123] but it aired on Disney Channel on August 12, 2022 as a "Lost Song" edition, while maintaining the "Disney Channel Original Movie" label.^[124]

Upcoming films

Year	Film	Projected premiere
2026	Descendants: Wicked Wonderland	2026[139][140][141][142]

Disney Original Movies

Disney Channel Original Movies got renamed to Disney Original Movies for only a year from 2023-2024.

Year	Film	Premiere date	Ratings (millions)	Ref(s)
2023	Prom Pact[Note 1]	March 30, 2023	0.2	[144][146]
	The Slumber Party	July 27, 2023	N/A	[147][148][149]
	The Naughty Nine	November 22, 2023	0.3	[129][150][151]
2024	Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation	June 6, 2024	0.2	[152][153][154][155][156][157]
	Descendants: The Rise of Red[Note 2]	August 9, 2024	N/A	[158][159]

Notes

1. Prom Pact was originally announced as a Disney+ original film,^[143] but it premiered on Disney Channel on March 30, 2023, under the "Disney Original Movie" branding.^[144][145]
2. Descendants: The Rise of Red was first released on Disney+ on July 12, 2024, but it aired on Disney Channel on August 9, 2024, under the "Disney Original Movie" branding.^[158]

Notable non-Disney Channel Original Movie films

The following films did not originally premiere under the "Disney Channel Original Movie" label, though they were sometimes later promoted as such:

• Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars (March 26, 2010)^[160]
• 16 Wishes (June 25, 2010)^[161][162]
• Back of the Net (June 15, 2019)^[163][164]
• The Curious Case of Dolphin Bay (June 11, 2022)^[165]

The following were produced by Disney Channel, but premiered on Disney+ without being labeled as Disney Channel Original Movies:

• Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (August 28, 2020; premiered on Disney Channel on April 8, 2023)^[166][167]
• Secret Society of Second-Born Royals (September 25, 2020; premiered on Disney Channel on February 26, 2023)^[168]
• Sneakerella (May 13, 2022; premiered on Disney Channel on August 13, 2022)^[169]

The following films are based on Disney Channel shows or Disney Channel Original Movies, but were released theatrically. However, some of them later premiered on Disney Channel:

• The Lizzie McGuire Movie (May 2, 2003; premiered on Disney Channel on November 26, 2005)
• Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (February 1, 2008; premiered on Disney Channel on July 26, 2008)
• High School Musical 3: Senior Year (October 24, 2008; premiered on Disney Channel on April 4, 2010)^[170]
• Hannah Montana: The Movie (April 10, 2009; premiered on Disney Channel on November 19, 2010)^[171]

The following films where produced by international versions of Disney Channel and premiered under the "Disney Channel Original Movie" label in their respective countries. However, they are not part of the official collection:

• Luck Luck Ki Baat (premiered on Disney Channel India on September 30, 2012)^[172]
• Mère et Fille : California Dream (premiered on Disney Channel France on February 5, 2016)^{[173][174][175]}

Highest-rated Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) premieres

Top 10

No.	Movie	Ratings (millions)	Year	Ref(s)
1	High School Musical 2	17.2	2007	[50][51]
2	Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie	11.4	2009	[63][64]
3	Camp Rock	8.9	2008	[21]
	Descendants 2[Note 1]	8.9	2017	[25][26][45]
4	Princess Protection Program	8.5	2009	[62]
5	Teen Beach Movie	8.4	2013	[86][87]
6	Jump In!	8.2	2007	[44][47]
7	Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam	7.9	2010	[67]
8	Cadet Kelly	7.8	2002	[21]
	The Cheetah Girls 2	7.8	2006	[25][26][45]
9	High School Musical	7.7	2006	[42][43]
10	Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension	7.6	2011	[77]

Notes

1. While Descendants 2, which aired in July 2017, only drew 5.3 million viewers on Disney Channel, it was simultaneously aired on the ABC broadcast network (where it drew an average of 2.4 million viewers) and four other cable channels (Disney XD, Freeform, Lifetime, and Lifetime Movies) as well, and drew a combined viewership of 8.9 million across all six television networks.^[101]

Within a calendar year

Year	Movie	Ratings (millions)	Ref(s)
2001	Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge	6.1	[15]
2002	Cadet Kelly	7.8	[21]
2003	The Cheetah Girls	6.5	[25][26]
2004	Halloweentown High	6.1	[34][35]
2005	Twitches	7.0	[41]
2006	The Cheetah Girls 2	7.8	[25][26][45]
2007	High School Musical 2	17.2	[50][51][57][176][177][178]
2008	Camp Rock	8.9	[54][55][56][57][58]
2009	Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie	11.4	[63][64]
2010	Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam	7.9	[67][179][180][181][182][183]
2011	Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension	7.6	[77]
2012	Let It Shine	5.7	[82][83]
2013	Teen Beach Movie	8.4	[86]
2014	Zapped	5.7	[90]
2015	Descendants	6.6	[95]
2016	Adventures in Babysitting	3.4	[97]
2017	Descendants 2	8.9	[101]
2018	Zombies	2.6	[103]
2019	Descendants 3	4.6	[109]
2020	Zombies 2	2.5	[110]
2021	Spin	0.5	[115]
2022	Zombies 3	0.3	[128]
2023	The Naughty Nine	0.3	[151]
2024	Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation	0.2	[157]
2025	Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires	0.6	[138]

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