Adaptations of The Jungle Book

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Filmmakers and others have made many adaptations of The Jungle Book stories by Rudyard Kipling. The stories, inspired by Kipling's life in India, were published in the 1894 The Jungle Book and its 1895 sequel, The Second Jungle Book .

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Books

Feature films

Mowgli stories

Theatrical films

Direct-to-video films

  • Adventures of Mowgli , five Soviet animated film adaptations, originally released between 1967 and 1971.
  • Jungle Book (1990), animated film from Golden Films.
  • The Jungle Book (1992), animated film from Bevanfield Films.
  • Jungle Book (1995), animated film from Jetlag Productions.
  • The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998), Disney's second live-action remake of the 1967 animated film, in which many of the plot elements are changed.

Television

Mowgli stories

Theatre

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