A beautiful princess flees from her jealous stepmother and finds refuge with seven dwarfs, but the wicked queen will stop at nothing to become the fairest of them all.
A diligent girl falls into a magical well and serves the mysterious Mother Holle, while her lazy stepsister learns that hard work brings its own reward.
One of Andersen's longest and most highly acclaimed stories, centered on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by Gerda and her friend, Kay.
A Chinese emperor loves the song of a plain grey nightingale until a bejeweled mechanical bird replaces it, only to break down when he needs beautiful music the most.
The Japanese myth of the sun goddess Amaterasu who hid in a celestial cave, plunging the world into darkness until the gods devised a clever plan to lure her out.
The Egyptian myth of the goddess Isis who searched tirelessly for the dismembered body of her husband Osiris, defeating death itself through love and powerful magic.