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There have been so many movies about dogs and movies that featured a dog in a leading role that it’s not possible to list them all (although there are a few web sites that have tried).  Here are some of the most memorable movies about dogs.

101 Dalmatians

The Adventures of Milo and Otis

Air Bud

All Dogs Go To Heaven

The Amazing Dobermans

As Good As It Gets

The Awful Truth

Balto

Beethoven

Benji

Best In Show

Big Red

The Biscuit Eater

Bolt

The Boy of Flanders

Bringing Up Baby

The Call of the Wild

Cats & Dogs

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Cujo

A Dog of Flanders

Eight Below

The Fox and the Hound

Greyfriars Bobby

The Hachiko Story

Homeward Bound:  The Incredible Journey

Homeward Bound:  Lost in San Francisco

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Incredible Journey

Iron Will

The Kennel Murder Case

Lad, A Dog

Lady and the Tramp

Lassie Come Home

Marley & Me

Old Yeller

Oliver and Company

Scooby Doo

The Shaggy Dog

Snow Dogs

The Thin Man

The Truth about Cats and Dogs

Turner and Hooch

The Ugly Dachshund

Underdog

White Fang

Wishbone

The Wizard of Oz

When it comes to dog movies, Walt Disney seems to win hands dog.  They make more dog movies than anyone else and they make good dog movies.  They’ve been making them for decades.  It was not always so.  In the early days of the movie industry Warner Brothers had the top canine film star with Rin Tin Tin.

Some of the earliest film starts during the silent movie era were dogs.  One of these was the German Shepherd Dog Strongheart.  He was the first German Shepherd to star in the movies.  He made his first film in 1921.  His most well-known film was probably White Fang ini 1925.

There were other canine stars of that era:  Teddy, a Great Dane; Jean, the Vitagraph dog who was a Collie; Luke, a Pit Bull, and many others.  In the 1920s other canine stars appeared:  Rin Tin Tin, Peter, Lightning, Flame, Champion, Ranger, Flash and Leader.  These dogs were all German Shepherd Dogs.  They are mostly forgotten today.

Fortunately, Hollywood does continue to make films about dogs even if we don’t always know the real names of the stars.