Oz movies, radio, and television

• The Internet Movie Database — [A] [B]

• TV Guide's Movie Database

• A history of Oz movies

• Film versions of Oz before and after 1939

• Some not-so-great versions of Oz

• The Sad, Century-Long History of Terrible Oz Movies

• A historical overview of Oz movies and television

• Clips from various Oz movies and shows

• The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) — [A] [B] [C]
  • Cheapskate's Review of Free Media looks at the 1910 version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

• Romola Remus, the first Dorothy in the movies — [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3 has yet to appear…]

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) — [A] [B]

• The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) — [A] [B]

• The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914) — [A] [B] [C]
  • A rarely-seen clip

• His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914) — [A] [B] [C] [D]

• The Wizard of Oz (1925) — [A] [B] [C] [D]

• Watch Oz movies on your home computer (those on Movieflix require registration):
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)
  • The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914)
  • The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914)
  • His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914) — [A] [B]
  • The Wizard of Oz (1925)
  • The Wonderful Teacher of Oz (???)

• Watch The Wizard of Oz cartoon (1933) on YouTube

• Comparing the 1910 and 1925 silent film versions of The Wizard of Oz

• Box Office Mojo's Oz pages — [The Wizard of Oz (1939)] [The Wiz] [Under the Rainbow] [Return to Oz (1985)]

• Oz on the radio

• Reviews of Oz radio and audio productions

• Lux Radio Theater, which broadcast The Wizard of Oz on Christmas 1950

• Emerald City Radio, all-Oz broadcasting around the clock

• Walt Disney's attempts to make an Oz movie

• Behind the scenes at the Disneyland Fourth Anniversary Show, notably the preview for the eventually abandoned movie The Rainbow Road to Oz

• What was actually made of The Rainbow Road to Oz

• Tales of the Wizard of Oz — [A] [B]

• Reviews of Shirley Temple's The Land of Oz, a 1961 episode of her television show — [A] [B] [C] [D (along with several other new shows from that season)

• Three different video adaptations of The Marvelous Land of Oz

• Off to See the Wizard, a 1967-68 Oz-themed anthology series from MGM

• Susan Conway talks about being the voice of Dorothy in the 1964 animated Return to Oz — includes behind-the-scenes photos!

• Reviews of Return to Oz (1964 animated television special) — [A] [B] [C (with Journey Back to Oz)]

• Reviews of Journey Back to Oz — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F]

• Walt Disney and The Wizard of Oz (including Return to Oz and The Muppets' Wizard of Oz)

• The lyrics to the songs from The Rainbow Road to Oz, a never-completed Disney project

• More about The Rainbow Road to Oz

• Review of the 1982 anime adaptation of The Wizard of Oz

• The 1987 cartoon series The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — [A] [B] [C (in Hebrew)] [D (with illustrations from an unrelated picture book)] [Episode Guide] [Watch episodes online]

• The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (the 1985 animated Rankin-Bass special) — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G (scroll down)] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O]

• The Enchanted World of Rankin-Bass — they made Tales of the Wizard of Oz, the 1964 television special Return to Oz, and the 1985 television special The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

• The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (the 2000 animated TV movie) — [A] [B] [C (scroll down)]

• Reviews of both American animated versions of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (scroll down)

• The Japanese anime series of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

• The Wizard of Oz on Ice, a 1996 CBS television special (in parts)

• Trailer for Oz (1976 Australian movie)

• The Brady Bunch in Oz (with bonus cereal commercial!)

• Reviews of the Turkish Wizard of Oz (no, really, there is such a thing!) — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I]
  • Watch it on YouTube (in parts) — [A] [B]

• Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oroz, the Brazilian verison of The Wizard of Oz (in Portuguese)
  • Review (in English)

• The Galaxy Adventures of Oz, an Oz-themed Japanese sci-fi cartoon

• Highlights of Hello Kitty in the Magical Land of Oz (in Japanese)

• Trollkarlen från Oz, the Danish dub of a Japanese anime version of The Wizard of Oz

• The Box of Robbers, a student film based on a short story by L. Frank Baum
  • Behind the scenes
  • The Box of Robbers with commentary

• "The Impending Wizard of Oz Renaissance"

• Oz movies that may be coming soon!

• More about forthcoming movies

• Legends of Oz: Dorothy Returns, coming soon to a theater near you (?) — [A] [B] [C] [On Facebook]
  • Teaser Trailer
  • Megan Hilty as the China Princess — [A] [B]
  • Dorothy of Oz at San Diego Comic Con 2011 — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F]
  • Virtual World

• L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, coming soon to a theater near you (?)
  • You can help fund this movie!
  • The behind-the-scenes blog

• Dark Oz, coming soon to a theater near you (?)

• Test for a French animated version of The Wizard of Oz, directed by John Boorman, coming soon to a theater near you (?)

• Trailer for The Witches of Oz, a 2011 television miniseries
  • The Witches of Oz YouTube channel
  • Review of the Blu-Ray release

• Dorothy and the Lost Girls, the sequel to Dorothy and the Witches of Oz

• After the Wizard, a small indie film where the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman come to Kansas looking for Dorothy
  • After the Wizard is coming to DVD
  • Trailer for After the Wizard

• Legend of Oz — Dorothy's friends have come to Kansas to find her

• La Maga y el Camino Dorado, a telenovela version of The Wizard of Oz made for Nickelodeon Latin America

• Rediscovering Dorothy, a documentary (in production)

• The Wonderful World of Oz, a new documentary celebrating the Oz community and the fans that make it up

• Hash, Inc.'s computer animated version of The Tin Woodman of Oz

• Reviews of The Wizard of Oz (1925) and His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914)

• Larry Semon, the director and Scarecrow of the 1925 Wizard of Oz

• Reviews of the 1969 film The Wonderful Land of Oz — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H]- [I (in French)]
  • The career of Wonderful Land of Oz producer Barry Mahon

• The Film Connoisseur examines The Wizard of Oz (1939) and The Wiz, and Return to Oz (1985)

• Review of Zardoz, one of the trippiest movies ever made, and there's an Oz connection!
  • One of the 50 Worse Sci-Fi and Fantasy Movies That Had No Excuse
  • One nerd's passion for the novelization

• Reviews of Oz: A Rock and Road Musical (released in North America as 20th Century Oz), an odd 1976 Australian movie — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E]

• Reviews of The Wiz movie — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T]

• The Wiz has one of the fifty greatest matte paintings of all time (this is the second page of the list)

• The evolution of Oz movie fashion, including The Wiz

• If it worked for The Movie, why not The Wiz? — The Wiz with a Pink Floyd soundtrack

• Trailer for Under the Rainbow

• Review of Under the Rainbow

• Reviews of Zardoz — [A] [B]

• Reviews of The Wizard of Mars — [A] [B] [C]

• Reviews (in Spanish) of the Spanish film Fantasia...3 (which has an "Oz" segment) - [A] [B]

• The opening of Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz (a 1980s straight-to-video cartoon based on Ozma of Oz)

• Reviews of Jim Henson's Mother Goose on DVD (the series was based, at least in part, on Baum's book Mother Goose in Prose)

• Being Dorothy, a Canadian documentary on small-town America filmed in Liberal, Kansas

• The Muppets' Wizard of Oz — [A] [B] [C] [D] [the CD] [the DVD]

• The many connections between Oz and the Muppets

• Puppet's for Burr Tillstrom's proposed television adaptation of The Marvelous Land of Oz

• A song from a Russian animated version of The Marvelous Land of Oz

• A look at Lost in Oz, a pilot for the WB that never became a series

• Tin Man, a Sci-Fi Channel miniseries

• The Origins of Oz, documentary on the Smithsonian Channel (first shown in Great Britain as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The True Story)
  • Download it from iTunes!

• "Not in Kansas Anymore", an episode of the Fame television series

• Is Peter Jackson producing a remake of The Wizard of Oz with a billion dollar budget?

• The Tin Woodman of Oz, a new computer animated version of the L. Frank Baum story
  • Behind the scenes

• A student animated version of The Wizard of Oz

• Unauthorized Magic in Oz, an original Oz puppet show written and directed by Edward Einhorn — [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

• Death of the Tinman, a movie loosely based on the Tin Woodman's origin

• Short movie: Heartless: The story of the Tin Man — [A] [B]

• Short movie: The Wheeler of Oz (you may have to poke around a little to find it)

• The Wonderful World of Oz, an in-production documentary on the Oz community

• The 1974 Russian stop-motion animated series Волшебник Изумрудного города

• More Russian adaptations — [A] [B]

• Хроники Изумрудного города (Chronicle of the Emerald City), a documentary about Aleksandr Volkov and his "Magic Land" books (in Russian)
  • More about the film (still in Russian)

• A new English-language adaptation of the Russian sequel Urfin Jus and His Wooden Soldiers

• Oz musicals in Japan (would you believe Hello Kitty going to Oz?)

• The Magic of Oz cartoon — nobody quite seems to know where this came from or when it was made…

• Way Off Broadway — in this Canadian cable series, a group of amateur theater buffs in Montreal have only eight weeks to put on a production of The Wizard of Oz!

• Ozsessed, a documentary about Oz fans

• The Secrets of Oz, a socio-political documentary about Oz

• The Wizard of Oz and Zombies, a series of three short films made by the students at the Vancouver Film School in Canada

• Trailer for Nick Chopper and the Forty Wolves, an adaptation of part of the original novel

• The Green Ruby Pumpkin, an Oz-inspired short film
  • The Making of The Green Ruby Pumpkin

• Red Brick Road, a proposed Oz television series — [A] [B] [C]

• Minnie's The Wizard of Dizz, a Disney parody

• Mentions of Oz in other movies (as well as clips from The Movie and The Wiz)

• "Oz Don't Look Like That!"

• The Music of Oz

• Oz-themed television commercials — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K]

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