Jim Henson Movies

Big Bird and his Sesame Street companion, Barkley, the big, fluffy dog, travel across China in search of the legendary Feng Huang, the Phoenix Bird....

This parody of film noir and gangster flicks takes us through the dangerous town of Dog City, teeming with colorful Muppet Dog characters. Rowlf the...

As they get ready for their annual Bunny Picnic, Bean, a young, imaginative bunny eager to help, is told he's too little. Hurt, he wanders off into...

Katherine Ryan presents a celebration of one of the biggest comedy talents to ever appear on the small screens – the razor-sharp-tongued first...

This unaired pilot, produced by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl, was shot in Atlanta in the summer of 1962. The pilot featured Kermit the Frog, Taminella...

This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the...

A robot illustrates the nascent, but growing relationship between man and machine - a relationship not without tension and resentment.

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was...

The Muppets tell the magical story of the chorus pig who rises from barnyard obscurity to super stardom and finds the short, green and handsome frog...

Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! was a 1994 TV special that aired on ABC to celebrate Sesame Street's 25th...

Fozzie Bear teaches the viewers -- as well as his young friends P.J. and Kai-Lee -- to tell funny jokes and perform impressions and magic tricks. At...

The film follows Henson’s career from his first work with his Muppets in the early 1950’s during television’s Golden Age up to his...

Seminal TV special about two groups of children, one in New York City and the other in Moscow, who befriend each other over a satellite connection...

The presentation by Jim Henson that started it all.

A socially awkward young English boy deals with his fears about his unemployed artist father, his pregnant mother, and his asthma, with the help of...

Taped in Toronto between August 9-24, 1982, Miss Piggy hosts her own variety show, with special guests John Ritter, George Hamilton and Tony Clifton...

The top 100 songs of the past 100 years chosen by the American Film Institute are presented by host-actor John Travolta.

This look at the contributions of Jim Henson and his early Sesame Street collaborators (including Frank Oz, Fran Brill, and Caroll Spinney) shows...

RUN, RUN, a polished live-action effort shot by Jim Henson and Frank Oz in Greenwich, CT in October 1965, is a visualization of the joys of childhood...

ALEXANDER THE GRAPE, an unfinished cut-paper animated short from Jim Henson from 1965, relates the fable of a young grape with big ambitions who...