Disneyland Handcrafted (2026)

In 1954–1955, Walt Disney attempted something no one thought could be done: build an entirely new kind of amusement park from the ground up in barely a year. Disneyland Handcrafted drops you into that countdown, orange groves turning into streets, castles, rivers, and rides, where every day is a race against deadlines, budgets, and the reality that Opening Day isn't moving.

Assembled from rare archival film and original audio pulled from the Walt Disney Archives, the documentary lets the people on site tell the story through what they captured at the time, craftspeople, builders, and early Imagineers pushing through setbacks to deliver Walt's “impossible” dream. The result is an unvarnished, fly-on-the-wall look at the grit and ingenuity behind what became the blueprint for modern theme parks worldwide.