All Disney Channel Original Movies in Order: The Complete DCOM List

What Counts as a Disney Channel Original Movie?

A Disney Channel Original Movie is a film made specifically for Disney Channel’s broadcast, not for theatrical release. The first one aired in August 1997. That’s the boundary.

The label does NOT include Disney theatrical releases that later aired on Disney Channel, even if you remember watching them on the channel. It also excludes Disney Plus original films that skipped broadcast entirely, though recent entries blur that line.

A small number of titles sit in a genuinely gray zone. Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024) premiered on Disney Plus rather than Disney Channel proper. This list notes those distinctions where they matter so you know exactly what you’re looking at.

One more note on counting: some lists bundle sequels under the original title, and some count them separately. This list counts each film individually and flags franchise entries clearly. That’s part of why the total number is higher than most people expect.

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How Many Disney Channel Original Movies Are There?

As of 2025, Disney produced approximately 107 films under the DCOM banner between 1997 and 2022.

The program paused after the 2022 slate, with no new DCOMs airing on Disney Channel through 2023 or 2024. New DCOM-style films have returned via Disney Plus starting in 2024 and 2025, though whether those count as “official” DCOMs depends on how strictly you define the broadcast requirement.

Franchise films inflate the number more than most people realize. The four Halloweentown movies each count individually. So do the three High School Musical films, three Cheetah Girls films, four Descendants films, and three Zombies films. Once you start adding those up, the total climbs fast.

The number is also a moving target. Disney’s platform pivot means new films are arriving under a format that looks a lot like the old DCOM model, just without a traditional TV broadcast attached.

The Era Breakdown: How DCOMs Changed Across Three Decades

The DCOM story is not a single continuous arc. It breaks into four distinct phases, each with a different budget scale, creative philosophy, and audience relationship. Understanding the phases makes the list below a lot more useful than just a database of titles.

The 90s Era (1997-1999): When DCOMs Were Weird and Experimental

Only nine films came out in this window. Disney was still figuring out what the format was supposed to be, and that uncertainty produced some genuinely strange results. A boy who turns into a mermaid. A haunted house full of actual horror beats. A talking dog. A kid who gets abducted by aliens.

The budgets were low. The ideas were strange. That combination turned out to be a gift, because the creative constraints pushed writers toward concepts that were legitimately original rather than commercially calculated.

Don’t Look Under the Bed (1999) is the clearest example: it is the darkest, most unsettling film in the entire DCOM library, and it is the film that Disney eventually pulled from Disney Plus because it was too frightening for the platform’s current brand positioning. More on that in the list below.

Halloweentown (1998) came out of this same weird experimental window and became the most beloved entry in the entire catalog. It is not a coincidence that the film with the most devoted fan base came from the era when Disney was least worried about playing it safe.

The 2000s Era (2000-2009): Peak DCOM, Peak Ratings

This is the decade most people mean when they say “the DCOM era.” Roughly 60 films came out across these ten years. Quality varied enormously from one end to the other, but the hits were genuinely BIG.

Smart House (2000), Cadet Kelly (2002), Pixel Perfect (2004), Zenon: The Zequel (2001), and Jump In! (2007) all hold up as standalone films. The early 2000s in particular produced a run of DCOMs that felt cinematic in a way the decade’s later entries rarely matched.

High School Musical (2006) is the defining outlier. It drew 7.7 million viewers on premiere night, then over 17 million on its first rebroadcast, which was a number the network had never seen before. It changed Disney’s understanding of what the format could do commercially.

The ripple effect of that success shaped the rest of the decade, pushing DCOMs toward music-driven, franchise-ready concepts and away from the weird standalone ideas that defined the 90s.

If you want to explore what happened to the people behind the early 2000s era, the Brink! cast retrospective covers one of the best examples of where those early DCOM stars ended up.

The 2010s Era (2010-2019): Franchises, Concerts, and the Long Decline

Disney leaned hard into franchise properties during this decade. Descendants (2015), Teen Beach Movie (2013), and Zombies (2018) all launched multi-film series. Concert films and documentary-adjacent specials blurred the line between DCOM and branded content.

The standalone weird-idea film largely disappeared. Several of the 2010s DCOMs were built around Disney Channel shows that already had audiences, which made them feel less like films and more like supersized series finales. The budgets went up. The creative risk tolerance went down.

There are real standouts in this window: Lemonade Mouth (2011) developed a cult following, Adventures in Babysitting (2016) was sharper than it had any right to be, and Freaky Friday (2018) proved the remake model could work. But the era as a whole lacks the identity clarity of either the 90s or the peak 2000s run.

The 2020s Era (2020-Present): The Pause and the Pivot to Streaming

Disney Channel’s linear viewership had dropped sharply by 2020. The network produced very few DCOM-style films between 2020 and 2022, and the ones that did air felt like holdovers from a format the network was already moving away from.

After 2022, the linear DCOM program stopped entirely. The format returned in 2024 and 2025 via Disney Plus, with Descendants: The Rise of Red as the clearest signal that Disney still sees commercial value in the DCOM concept, just not through traditional broadcast. The broadcast era that defined the program is over. What comes next is something that resembles DCOMs but lives in a fundamentally different distribution model.

Disney Channel Original Movies in Order (1997-2025)

Streaming Status Key:

• [Disney Plus] = currently available on Disney Plus as of mid-2025
• [Not on Disney Plus] = produced but not currently streaming on Disney Plus
• [Removed] = was on Disney Plus, has since been pulled

Streaming availability changes. These statuses reflect the best available information as of mid-2025. Always verify current availability directly on Disney Plus.

1997-1999: The First Wave

1. Northern Lights (1997) – A former hockey player takes a job in rural Alaska and confronts old regrets. [Not on Disney Plus]
2. Under Wraps (1997) – Three kids accidentally revive a mummy and have to return him to his tomb before Halloween. [Not on Disney Plus – remade in 2021]
3. You Lucky Dog (1998) – A dog psychologist switches minds with a dog and discovers he can understand animals. [Not on Disney Plus]
4. Brink! (1998) – An aggressive inline skater is torn between his love of the sport and a corporate sponsorship. [Disney Plus]
5. Halloweentown (1998) – A girl discovers her grandmother lives in a town full of monsters and that she is a witch. [Disney Plus]
6. Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999) – A girl living on a space station gets sent to Earth and has to save her home. [Disney Plus]
7. Can of Worms (1999) – A misfit kid sends a distress signal into space and accidentally attracts a crowd of alien visitors. [Not on Disney Plus]
8. The Thirteenth Year (1999) – A teenager discovers he was adopted and that his biological mother is a mermaid, which means he’s turning into one too. [Disney Plus]
9. Don’t Look Under the Bed (1999) – A rational teenager is suddenly blamed for pranks caused by the boogeyman, and only an imaginary friend can help her fight back. [Removed] – This is the most frequently asked-about DCOM removal. For the full story, the breakdown of why Don’t Look Under the Bed was pulled from Disney Plus covers everything Disney has and hasn’t said about it.

2000-2004: The Golden Run Begins

1. Alley Cats Strike (2000) – A group of misfit bowlers must compete in a championship to determine school bragging rights. [Disney Plus]
2. Rip Girls (2000) – A girl inherits land in Hawaii and learns to surf while connecting with her late mother’s culture. [Not on Disney Plus]
3. Miracle in Lane 2 (2000) – A boy with spina bifida finds his competitive drive in soapbox derby racing. [Disney Plus]
4. Smart House (1999, per original broadcast – widely listed as 2000) – A teenager wins a fully automated dream house, then reprograms its AI to act like a mother with catastrophic results. [Disney Plus]
5. The Color of Friendship (2000) – A Black congressman’s daughter and a white South African girl are placed in a student exchange program during apartheid-era tensions. [Disney Plus]
6. Johnny Tsunami (2000) – A Hawaiian surfer moves to Vermont and clashes with the skiing-obsessed local culture. [Disney Plus]
7. Stepsister from Planet Weird (2000) – Two mismatched stepsiblings discover both their parents are aliens in disguise. [Not on Disney Plus]
8. Zenon: The Zequel (2001) – Zenon returns to space to stop an alien force threatening the space station. [Disney Plus]
9. Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge (2001) – Marnie returns to Halloweentown to stop the son of the villain from the original film. [Disney Plus]
10. Motocrossed (2001) – A girl disguises herself as her injured brother to compete in a motocross championship. [Disney Plus]
11. Jumping Ship (2001) – Two cousins and a stranger get stranded on a deserted island after a fight on a family yacht. [Not on Disney Plus]
12. Cadet Kelly (2002) – A free-spirited girl is forced to attend a military academy run by her rigid new stepfather. [Disney Plus]
13. Get a Clue (2002) – A teenage gossip columnist investigates the disappearance of her teacher. [Disney Plus]
14. The Scream Team (2002) – Two siblings discover their grandfather’s ghost and help him cross over before he is erased. [Not on Disney Plus]
15. Tru Confessions (2002) – A teenage girl documents her relationship with her twin brother who has an intellectual disability for a TV contest. [Not on Disney Plus]
16. The Even Stevens Movie (2003) – The Stevens family is tricked into appearing on a reality show stranding them on a deserted island. [Disney Plus]
17. Pixel Perfect (2004) – A tech genius creates a holographic pop star for his friend’s band, then faces the complications of falling for something that isn’t real. [Disney Plus]
18. Stuck in the Suburbs (2004) – Two girls accidentally swap phones with a pop star and use it to reinvent his image. [Not on Disney Plus]
19. Tiger Cruise (2004) – A Navy officer’s daughter is aboard a ship when the September 11 attacks happen, and the film follows the crew’s response. [Not on Disney Plus]

2005-2009: High School Musical Changes Everything

1. Go Figure (2005) – A hockey-obsessed girl joins a figure skating team to fund her real passion, then finds herself torn between two worlds. [Disney Plus]
2. The Cheetah Girls 2 (2006) – The Cheetah Girls travel to Barcelona and compete for a spot in a major music festival. [Disney Plus]
3. High School Musical (2006) – A popular jock and an academic overachiever secretly audition for their school musical. [Disney Plus]
4. Cow Belles (2006) – Two spoiled sisters are forced to work on their family’s dairy farm after their father’s business struggles. [Not on Disney Plus]
5. The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000) – Two girls steal a weather machine and accidentally bury Los Angeles in snow. [Not on Disney Plus]

(Note: Several early 2000s titles were broadcast slightly out of production order. Listings here follow the most commonly cited broadcast dates.)

1. Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior (2006) – A teen focused on winning homecoming queen discovers she is a reincarnated warrior destined to fight an ancient evil. [Disney Plus]
2. Jump In! (2007) – A boxer discovers a passion for Double Dutch jump rope while training in his apartment building. [Disney Plus]
3. Twitches (2005) – Twin sisters separated at birth discover they are witches and must fight a shadowy evil threatening their magical homeland. [Disney Plus]
4. Twitches Too (2007) – The twins face a new threat after believing their father’s dark side has been destroyed. [Not on Disney Plus]
5. Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board (2007) – Johnny returns to Hawaii and helps his grandfather navigate a new chapter of his life. [Not on Disney Plus]
6. Minutemen (2008) – Three high school outcasts build a time machine to undo embarrassing moments, with consequences that spiral out of control. [Disney Plus]
7. Dadnapped (2009) – A girl whose father writes a popular spy novel series is kidnapped by fans who think he actually is a spy. [Not on Disney Plus]
8. Hatching Pete (2009) – A shy kid takes over the school mascot costume and becomes a school legend without anyone knowing it’s him. [Not on Disney Plus]
9. Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie (2009) – The Russo family travels to a Caribbean resort, and Alex’s wish goes wrong and erases her family from existence. [Disney Plus]
10. Starstruck (2010, late 2009 in some markets) – A girl visiting her grandmother in Hollywood falls for a famous pop star. [Disney Plus]
11. Princess Protection Program (2009) – A princess in danger is placed under the protection of a spy agency and hidden as a regular teenager in Louisiana. [Disney Plus]
12. Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension (2011) – The animated stepbrothers travel to an alternate dimension and face an evil version of Dr. Doofenshmirtz. [Disney Plus]
13. Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars (2010) – A modern-day reimagining of the Harriet the Spy story set in the world of competitive blogging. [Not on Disney Plus]
14. Avalon High (2010) – A new student at her school discovers her classmates are reincarnations of King Arthur’s court. [Not on Disney Plus]
15. Camp Rock (2008) – A talented girl lands a scholarship to a prestigious music camp and falls for a pop star who doesn’t know who she is. [Disney Plus]
16. Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010) – The Camp Rock crew faces off against a rival camp in a battle of the bands. [Disney Plus]
17. Zenon: Z3 (2004) – Zenon must save her space station from being shut down while competing in an intergalactic music competition. [Disney Plus]

2010-2014: Franchises Take Over

1. Lemonade Mouth (2011) – Five students meet in detention, form a band, and challenge the power structure of their high school. [Disney Plus]
2. Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars (2010) – Listed above; included here for chronological accuracy.
3. Good Luck Charlie, It’s Christmas! (2011) – The Duncan family’s holiday road trip goes completely sideways. [Disney Plus]
4. Geek Charming (2011) – A popular girl agrees to be the subject of a documentary by a film geek and discovers real friendship. [Disney Plus]
5. Halloween Haunt – (Note: Not a separately produced DCOM; some fan lists conflate anthology specials. Not included here.)
6. Radio Rebel (2012) – A shy girl secretly runs a popular underground radio station and takes on a strict new school principal. [Disney Plus]
7. Freakier Friday – (Sequel, released 2022 – listed in chronological order below.)
8. StarStruck (2012, sequel special) – (Classified as a special, not a standalone DCOM.)
9. Teen Beach Movie (2013) – Two surfers are magically transported into a 1960s beach party musical. [Disney Plus]
10. Cloud 9 (2014) – A former snowboarding prodigy coaches a rising star and rediscovers her own passion for the sport. [Disney Plus]
11. How to Build a Better Boy (2014) – Two girls hack a military database to build a perfect boyfriend, only to accidentally create an operative. [Disney Plus]
12. Zapped (2014) – A girl discovers an app that lets her control boys and has to decide how to use it responsibly. [Disney Plus]
13. Bad Hair Day (2015) – A sheriff and a teenager accidentally spend prom night chasing a criminal across state lines. [Disney Plus]
14. Descendants (2015) – The teenage children of Disney’s most famous villains are given a chance to attend a school for heroes. [Disney Plus]
15. Teen Beach 2 (2015) – The characters from the 1960s beach musical visit the real world and don’t want to go back. [Disney Plus]
16. Invisible Sister (2015) – A girl accidentally makes her overachieving sister invisible the day of a major school competition. [Disney Plus]

2015-2019: The Descendants Decade

1. Adventures in Babysitting (2016) – Two competing babysitters team up for a wild night across the city. [Disney Plus]
2. Descendants 2 (2017) – Mal returns to the Isle of the Lost and faces a new threat from a girl named Uma. [Disney Plus]
3. Zombies (2018) – A zombie and a cheerleader fall for each other in a town divided between humans and the undead. [Disney Plus]
4. Freaky Friday (2018, remake) – A mother and daughter switch bodies the day before the mother’s wedding. [Disney Plus]
5. Descendants 3 (2019) – The villain kids must save Auradon from a new threat while honoring those they’ve lost. [Disney Plus]
6. Zombies 2 (2020) – Zombies and cheerleaders face a new group: werewolves who have their own claim to the town. [Disney Plus]

The Even Stevens cast retrospective is a useful companion for anyone who wants to trace what happened to the early-era DCOM stars. The Even Stevens cast breakdown tracks several actors who started in this universe and went very different directions.

2020-2022: The Final Linear Era

1. Under Wraps 2 (2022) – A sequel to the 2021 remake, following the same mummy on a new Halloween adventure. [Disney Plus]
2. Under Wraps (2021, remake) – A fresh retelling of the original 1997 DCOM with a new cast. [Disney Plus]
3. Spin (2021) – An Indian-American teenager discovers a passion for DJing and has to pursue it against her family’s expectations. [Disney Plus]
4. Upside-Down Magic (2020) – A girl whose magic never works the way it should ends up at a school for magically gifted kids. [Disney Plus]
5. Secret Society of Second-Born Royals (2020) – Second-born royals discover they have superpowers and are recruited for a secret mission. [Disney Plus]
6. Prom Pact (2023) – A Harvard-obsessed student makes a deal with the most popular boy at school to help get her in. [Disney Plus]
7. Zombies 3 (2022) – The Zombies franchise closes its trilogy with an alien invasion on top of all the usual human-zombie-werewolf tensions. [Disney Plus]
8. Sneakerella (2022) – A modern gender-swapped Cinderella set in the sneaker culture of New York City. [Disney Plus]
9. Crater (2023) – A boy born on a lunar mining colony embarks on an adventure with friends before being relocated to another planet. [Disney Plus]

2023-2025: The Streaming Era Begins

1. Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024) – The daughter of the Queen of Hearts teams up with Cinderella’s daughter on a time-travel adventure. [Disney Plus] – Note: premiered on Disney Plus rather than Disney Channel broadcast. Represents the new model for the format.
2. Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires (2025) – The fourth entry in the Zombies franchise adds vampires to the supernatural roster in Seabrook. [Disney Plus]

New DCOM-adjacent films continue to be announced for the Disney Plus slate through 2025 and 2026. The broadcast model is gone. The format itself is not.

Which DCOMs Are Not on Disney Plus?

The titles marked [Not on Disney Plus] throughout this list share a few patterns worth knowing.

Licensing is the most common explanation. Some early DCOMs were co-produced with outside studios, and the rights arrangements that made sense in 1999 do not map cleanly onto a streaming platform in 2025. Disney does not typically comment publicly on why specific titles are absent.

Content concerns explain a small number of removals. Don’t Look Under the Bed is the most high-profile example, pulled from Disney Plus due to its genuinely frightening content, which does not fit the platform’s current brand positioning. A few other early titles appear to have been quietly removed without explanation.

Some titles simply have not been digitized or restored to a streaming-ready quality level. The earliest DCOMs were shot on formats that require restoration work before they meet platform standards, and Disney has not prioritized that process for titles with lower demand.

The complete list of Disney Channel movies removed from Disney Plus covers confirmed removals with more context on each one.

Which DCOM Franchises Got Sequels?

Several DCOMs launched multi-film series. Here is the complete franchise map so you know the viewing order for each one.

Halloweentown Series (4 films):

• Halloweentown (1998)
• Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge (2001)
• Halloweentown High (2004)
• Return to Halloweentown (2006)

Zenon Series (3 films):

• Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999)
• Zenon: The Zequel (2001)
• Zenon: Z3 (2004)

High School Musical Series (3 theatrical/DCOM hybrid films):

• High School Musical (2006)
• High School Musical 2 (2007)
• High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008, theatrical)

The Cheetah Girls Series (3 films):

• The Cheetah Girls (2003)
• The Cheetah Girls 2 (2006)
• The Cheetah Girls: One World (2008)

Descendants Series (4 films + spin-offs):

• Descendants (2015)
• Descendants 2 (2017)
• Descendants 3 (2019)
• Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024)

Zombies Series (4 films):

• Zombies (2018)
• Zombies 2 (2020)
• Zombies 3 (2022)
• Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires (2025)

Twitches Series (2 films):

• Twitches (2005)
• Twitches Too (2007)

Camp Rock Series (2 films):

• Camp Rock (2008)
• Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010)

Under Wraps (Original + Remake + Sequel):

• Under Wraps (1997, original)
• Under Wraps (2021, remake)
• Under Wraps 2 (2022)

FAQ

What was the very first Disney Channel Original Movie?
Northern Lights aired on August 23, 1997, and is officially the first film produced under the DCOM banner. It stars Diane Keaton as a woman who travels to Alaska after her estranged son is arrested for assault. It is not on Disney Plus and is rarely discussed in DCOM conversations because Halloweentown and Brink! premiered shortly after and overshadowed it culturally.

Are all Disney Channel Original Movies on Disney Plus?
No. A significant number of DCOMs are not available on Disney Plus. Some were never added due to licensing complications from co-production deals made in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Others were added and later removed. Don’t Look Under the Bed is the most high-profile removal. Titles like Can of Worms, Jumping Ship, Twitches Too, and Cow Belles remain off the platform as of mid-2025.

Why did Disney stop making Disney Channel Original Movies?
Disney Channel’s linear viewership declined steadily through the late 2010s and into the 2020s, making traditional broadcast DCOMs less commercially viable. The last formal wave of linear DCOMs aired in 2022. Disney did not officially cancel the program but stopped producing films for traditional broadcast. The format has since migrated to Disney Plus, where new films like Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024) and Zombies 4 (2025) function as spiritual successors to the classic DCOM model without the broadcast component.

What is the most watched Disney Channel Original Movie of all time?
High School Musical (2006) holds that record. It drew approximately 7.7 million viewers on its premiere night, which was already a strong number for Disney Channel. Its first rebroadcast brought in over 17 million viewers, which was a record for the network at that time. No other DCOM has come close to those numbers.

Which DCOMs have been removed from Disney Plus?
The most confirmed removal is Don’t Look Under the Bed (1999), which was pulled due to content that does not align with the platform’s current brand. Several other early DCOMs that were briefly available have also disappeared. Titles including Northern Lights, You Lucky Dog, Jumping Ship, and Cow Belles are either unavailable or were never added. The removals are rarely announced publicly, which is why tracking them requires ongoing monitoring rather than a one-time check.

Is there a new Disney Channel Original Movie coming in 2025 or 2026?
Yes. Disney has continued producing DCOM-style films for Disney Plus. Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires released in 2025. Additional titles have been announced for the Disney Plus slate through 2025 and into 2026, continuing the franchise properties that anchor the current era. These films no longer air on Disney Channel’s linear broadcast. They premiere directly on Disney Plus, which marks a permanent structural shift from the original DCOM model.

Which era of DCOMs is considered the best?
The late 1990s and early-to-mid 2000s consistently rank highest among adult fans of the franchise. The 1997 to 2004 window produced the most original concepts, including Halloweentown, Brink!, Smart House, Zenon, The Thirteenth Year, and Pixel Perfect. These films were made with lower budgets but more creative freedom. The 2006 to 2010 window has its defenders thanks to the cultural weight of High School Musical and the nostalgia tied to Camp Rock. The 2010s era is generally considered the weakest for standalone originality, though Lemonade Mouth and Zombies developed real cult followings.

Conclusion

The DCOM catalog is bigger, weirder, and more uneven than most people’s nostalgia accounts for. The nine films from 1997 to 1999 alone contain some of the most genuinely strange children’s entertainment Disney has ever produced, and several of those titles are now harder to find than films from 30 years before them.

The most useful thing this list can tell you is that streaming availability is not a proxy for quality. Some of the best DCOMs ever made are the ones sitting in the [Not on Disney Plus] column. If you’re serious about exploring the full catalog, you’ll need more than a Disney Plus subscription.

The DCOM era as it existed on linear TV is over. What Disney is building now on Disney Plus is something different in structure, even if the spirit of the original format is still recognizable in the best new entries. Whether that version of the format produces anything with the staying power of Halloweentown or Brink! is a question that will take another 20 years to answer properly.

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