The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Season 1)

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (ニルスのふしぎな旅, 1980) is a Japanese animated series you can watch online on iFILM. Swedish farm boy Nils Holgersson was never kind to animals — until the day he caught the farmyard's gnome and got shrunk to the size of a fist as punishment. He barely escaped the livestock's revenge by jumping onto the back of a goose named Morten, and the two were swept into a migrating flock heading north.

The series adapts Selma Lagerlöf's two-volume novel from 1906–1907, written to teach Swedish schoolchildren geography and later earning Lagerlöf the Nobel Prize in Literature. One of the episode directors was a young Mamoru Oshii, who would go on to make Ghost in the Shell. Stream all episodes of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils online on iFILM — a classic that works just as well for adults revisiting it as for kids seeing it fresh.