Your birth year
2006
The Lion King
1994
The Lion King is 12 years older than you
It's from 1994, before you were born.
- Studio
- Walt Disney Animation
- Genre
- Animated musical
- Released
- 1994
- Songs by
- Elton John & Tim Rice
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About
As of 2026, it's 32 years old.
The Lion King took Hamlet, relocated it to the savanna, added warthog flatulence jokes and a soundtrack people still belt in the car, and became one of the most beloved animated films ever made. A lion cub's journey from grief to his rightful throne wrecked children worldwide with a single, unforgivable wildebeest stampede.
Its songs, its 'Hakuna Matata' philosophy, and that opening sunrise became permanent cultural touchstones.
Gorgeous, devastating, and triumphant, The Lion King is the cartoon that smuggled Shakespeare and genuine trauma into a kids' movie about singing animals.
