Ferdinand the Bull

Ferdinand the Bull (1938) is the Walt Disney animated short you can watch online on iFILM in eight minutes. Based on Munro Leaf's 1936 picture book with illustrations by Robert Lawson, it follows a young bull with no interest in bullfighting — he'd rather sit under a cork tree and smell flowers while the others butt heads.

An ill-timed bee sting lands him in the arena anyway, where the crowd expects fury and Ferdinand delivers exactly nothing of the sort. The short took home the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 1939 ceremony, and it remains one of the more quietly subversive things early Disney ever made.

Watch Ferdinand the Bull (1938) online on iFILM.