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List of Disney Channel original films

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Since its launch on April 18, 1983, American cable and satellite television channel Disney Channel has released a number of original television films. These were named Disney Channel Premiere Films until October 1997, when the current Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) branding was introduced. For a period from March 2023 to August 2024 the Disney Original Movie moniker was used, before the network reverted to the earlier branding.

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“List of Disney Channel original films” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what List, Disney and Channel can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 1997, 2023, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around List, Disney and Channel.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of Disney Channel original films” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.