Puppetry Movies

A quiet bus ride home from the city library turns into an aural nightmare for a book-reading commuter. With every stop the bus fills with people and...

The crusades come to life in Egyptian artist Wael Shawky’s beautiful Cabaret Crusades. Inspired by the writings of Lebanese writer Amin...

MANOS: The Hands of Felt is a puppet musical re-imagining of the cult classic MANOS: The Hands of Fate. The film's story of a family vacation gone...

A documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the legacy. The worlds oldest animation studio still making...

In the middle of the forest, a bear finds an abandoned hut full of food and sweets and encounters different animals while staying there.

Jim Henson and Rowlf the Dog explain the art and history of puppetry, and let the viewer in on some of the secrets in performing his own act, the...

Beginnings: Gobo's Uncle Traveling Matt discovers a way to leave Fraggle Rock and venture out into our world - a land he calls Outer Space. Thus...

The story of the acquaintance of two dads - a boy and a teddy bear. One dad did not have time to buy a Christmas tree and went to the forest to get...

A boy receives a gift from his grandfather for his birthday; a box in which to store the lessons he will learn throughout life. He inadvertently...

Several puppets convene at a wooded retreat for a weekend-long writing workshop in which secrets are spilled and lives changed.

A young girl must take part in a dangerous task in order to complete her doll collection.

Rocky Mountain Holiday is a one-hour musical variety special featuring John Denver and the Muppets, which aired on ABC on May 12, 1983. In the...

Catch a Tail by the Tiger: Gobo has not received his usual postcard from his Uncle Traveling Matt. He eventually comes to realize that he must...

An English language, feature-length version of the Japanese marionette series 'Ekkusu bonbâ'. As the year 3000 approaches, a war-torn Solar...

An unsold TV pilot based on the classic comic strip, shot by Jim Henson with puppets built by Don Sahlin.

A young girl is playing on some waste ground when she finds a pencil with a face. Whatever she draws with the pencil becomes real. Just an ordinary...

The story of how Jim Henson tried to convince broadcasters that The Muppets was a great idea and how he worked to get the characters on air where...

A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leading actor, that examine the bores and pests of...

Consists of the shorts "The Muppet Introduction", "Just a Few Announcements" and "Sell, Sell, Sell".

Tale of an otherworldly creature preparing a celebration in a cemetery, utilizing puppetry, stop motion, and silhouette animation.