History Creator / DisneyPlus

In May 2023, similar to what was done at Max, the service (and Hulu) began a massive purge of much of its lower-performing original content (including most library content), removing many movies and shows from legal public availability. In the same month, it was announced the service in the US would be merged with Hulu's content, though Hulu would continue to exist as a standalone service as well. That same year, Disney+ announced that it would gradually add a number of restored WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts in the remaining months of 2023 as part of a restoration project which coincides with the company-wide [=Disney100=] celebration as well as a ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' [=4K=] restoration[[note]]The same restoration used on [=4K=] Ultra HD prints of the film, also to coincide with [=Disney100=][[/note]] on August 27 of that year, as part of World Princess Day. On December of that year, [=Disney+=] began its integration with Hulu with a wider rollout by spring of that year via a beta launch that combined most of the stuff on Hulu to their platform, meaning you can watch kid-friendly stuff like ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'' and hardcore gore filled shows like ''Anime/AttackOnTitan'' and ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes, seriously]]. For reference, Creator/IanJonesQuartey[[note]]whose show, ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' was on there, [[FauxHorrific to everybody's horror]][[/note]] [[https://twitter.com/ianjq/status/1732436944561545331?t=QLHGuaILoiu642HVcM8H9g&s=19 noted this and said it was weird]].

In May 2023, similar to what was done at Max, the service (and Hulu) began a massive purge of much of its lower-performing original content (including most library content), removing many movies and shows from legal public availability. In the same month, it was announced the service in the US would be merged with Hulu's content, though Hulu would continue to exist as a standalone service as well. That same year, Disney+ announced that it would gradually add a number of restored WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts in the remaining months of 2023 as part of a restoration project which coincides with the company-wide [=Disney100=] celebration as well as a ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' [=4K=] restoration[[note]]The same restoration used on [=4K=] Ultra HD prints of the film, also to coincide with [=Disney100=][[/note]] on August 27 of that year, as part of World Princess Day. On December of that year, [=Disney+=] began its integration with Hulu with a wider rollout by spring of that year via a beta launch that combined most of the stuff on Hulu to their platform, meaning you can watch kid friendly stuff like WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse and hardcore gore filled shows like Anime/AttackOnTitan and WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes, seriously]]. For reference, Creator/IanJonesQuartey[[note]]whose show, WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes was on there, [[FauxHorrific to everybody's horror]][[/note]] [[https://twitter.com/ianjq/status/1732436944561545331?t=QLHGuaILoiu642HVcM8H9g&s=19 noted this and said it was weird]].

In May 2023, similar to what was done at Max, the service (and Hulu) began a massive purge of much of its lower-performing original content (including most library content), removing many movies and shows from legal public availability. In the same month, it was announced the service in the US would be merged with Hulu's content, though Hulu would continue to exist as a standalone service as well. That same year, Disney+ announced that it would gradually add a number of restored WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts in the remaining months of 2023 as part of a restoration project which coincides with the company-wide [=Disney100=] celebration as well as a ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' [=4K=] restoration[[note]]The same restoration used on [=4K=] Ultra HD prints of the film, also to coincide with [=Disney100=][[/note]] on August 27 of that year, as part of World Princess Day. On December of that year, [=Disney+=] began its integration with Hulu with a wider rollout by spring of that year via a beta launch that combined most of the stuff on Hulu to their platform, meaning you can watch kid friendly stuff like WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse and Hardcore gore filled shows like Anime/AttackOnTitan and WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes, seriously]]. For reference, Creator/IanJonesQuartey[[note]]whose show, WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes was on there, [[FauxHorrific to everybody's horror]][[/note]] [[https://twitter.com/ianjq/status/1732436944561545331?t=QLHGuaILoiu642HVcM8H9g&s=19 noted this and said it was weird]].

In May 2023, similar to what was done at Max, the service (and Hulu) began a massive purge of much of its lower-performing original content (including most library content), removing many movies and shows from legal public availability. In the same month, it was announced the service in the US would be merged with Hulu's content, though Hulu would continue to exist as a standalone service as well. That same year, Disney+ announced that it would gradually add a number of restored WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts in the remaining months of 2023 as part of a restoration project which coincides with the company-wide [=Disney100=] celebration as well as a ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' [=4K=] restoration[[note]]The same restoration used on [=4K=] Ultra HD prints of the film, also to coincide with [=Disney100=][[/note]] on August 27 of that year, as part of World Princess Day. On December of that year, [=Disney+=] began its integration with Hulu with a wider rollout by spring of that year via a beta launch that combined most of the stuff on Hulu to their platform, meaning you can watch kid friendly stuff like WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse and Hardcore gore filled shows like Anime/AttackOnTitan and WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes, seriously]]. For reference, Creator/IanJonesQuartey[[note]]whose show, WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes was on there, [[FauxHorrific to everybody's horror]][[/note]][[https://twitter.com/ianjq/status/1732436944561545331?t=QLHGuaILoiu642HVcM8H9g&s=19 noted this and said it was weird]].

In May 2023, similar to what was done at Max, the service (and Hulu) began a massive purge of much of its lower-performing original content (including most library content), removing many movies and shows from legal public availability. In the same month, it was announced the service in the US would be merged with Hulu's content, though Hulu would continue to exist as a standalone service as well. That same year, Disney+ announced that it would gradually add a number of restored WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts in the remaining months of 2023 as part of a restoration project which coincides with the company-wide [=Disney100=] celebration as well as a ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' [=4K=] restoration[[note]]The same restoration used on [=4K=] Ultra HD prints of the film, also to coincide with [=Disney100=][[/note]] on August 27 of that year, as part of World Princess Day. On December of that year, [=Disney+=] began its integration with Hulu with a wider rollout by spring of that year via a beta launch that combined most of the stuff on Hulu to their platform, meaning you can watch kid friendly stuff like WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse and Hardcore gore filled shows like Anime/AttackOnTitan and WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes, seriously]]. For reference, Creator/IanJoneQuartey[[note]]whose show, WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes was on there, [[FauxHorrific to everybody's horror]][[/note]][[https://twitter.com/ianjq/status/1732436944561545331?t=QLHGuaILoiu642HVcM8H9g&s=19 noted this and said it was weird]].

In May 2023, similar to what was done at Max, the service (and Hulu) began a massive purge of much of its lower-performing original content (including most library content), removing many movies and shows from legal public availability. In the same month, it was announced the service in the US would be merged with Hulu's content, though Hulu would continue to exist as a standalone service as well. That same year, Disney+ announced that it would gradually add a number of restored WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts in the remaining months of 2023 as part of a restoration project which coincides with the company-wide [=Disney100=] celebration as well as a ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' [=4K=] restoration[[note]]The same restoration used on [=4K=] Ultra HD prints of the film, also to coincide with [=Disney100=][[/note]] on August 27 of that year, as part of World Princess Day. On December of that year, [=Disney+=] began its integration with Hulu with a wider rollout by spring of that year via a beta launch that combined most of the stuff on Hulu to their platform, meaning you can watch kid friendly stuff like WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse' and Hardcore gore filled shows like Anime/AttackOnTitan and WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes, seriously]]

In May 2023, similar to what was done at Max, the service (and Hulu) began a massive purge of much of its lower-performing original content (including most library content), removing many movies and shows from legal public availability. In the same month, it was announced the service in the US would be merged with Hulu's content, though Hulu would continue to exist as a standalone service as well. That same year, Disney+ announced that it would gradually add a number of restored WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts in the remaining months of 2023 as part of a restoration project which coincides with the company-wide [=Disney100=] celebration as well as a ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' [=4K=] restoration[[note]]The same restoration used on [=4K=] Ultra HD prints of the film, also to coincide with [=Disney100=][[/note]] on August 27 of that year, as part of World Princess Day. On December of that year, [=Disney+=] began its integration with Hulu with a wider rollout by spring of that year.

In May 2023, similar to what was done at Max, the service (and Hulu) began a massive purge of much of its lower-performing original content (including most library content), removing many movies and shows from legal public availability. In the same month, it was announced the service in the US would be merged with Hulu's content, though Hulu would continue to exist as a standalone service as well. That same year, Disney+ announced that it would gradually add a number of restored WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts in the remaining months of 2023 as part of a restoration project which coincides with the company-wide [=Disney100=] celebration as well as a ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' [=4K=] restoration[[note]]The same restoration used on [=4K=] Ultra HD prints of the film, also to coincide with [=Disney100=][[/note]] on August 27 of that year, as part of World Princess Day.

* October 2, 2020 -- Mauritius, Mayotte and Réunion

* June 14, 2022 -- Eastern Europe, Balkan countries, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, the Baltics, Andorra, Malta, Liechtenstein, Gibraltar, San Marino, Vatican City, Sint Maarten, the Åland Islands, the Faroe Islands, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Pitcairn Islands, the British Indian Ocean Territory, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha and most French territories.

* Kugali: ''Iwájú'' (co-produced with Walt Disney Animation Studios)

** ''Iwájú'' (2023)[[note]]collaboration with Kugali[[/note]]

** One of the first international productions, ''It Was Always Me'', was originally going to star Argentine singer[=/=]actress Tini Stoessel and Colombian singer Sebastián Yatra, who were dating at the time. However, as production was suspended during the pandemic, both eventually dropped out due to having broken up and making new commitments in 2021. Production would eventually move from Argentina to Colombia and resume with Mexican singer[=/=]actress Karol Sevilla and Colombian singer[=/=]songwriter Pipe Bueno.

* ‘'Dashing Through the Snow'' (2023)

While there is a much greater degree of creative freedom than what's normally allowed on network TV, Disney initially made it a point that R-rated and TV-MA franchises would not be featured on the service in the United States. Instead, anything above PG-13 and lower level TV-14 (and, in some cases, even PG-13 and TV-14 content) that happens to pertain to Disney would be offloaded to Creator/{{Hulu}} (a service that they have a majority stake in, and will fully own in 2024) to help preserve the service's image of being family-friendly.[[note]]Until mid-2021, most new non-R-rated 20th Century content could not have their pay-one windows on either service in the US, due to contracts made pre-acquisition with Creator/{{HBO}} that were set to run through mid-2022. Some movies from that label were made available on international versions of Disney+, though. In 2021, a deal between Disney and HBO was announced that would allow half of 20th Century and Creator/SearchlightPictures' slate, beginning with ''WesternAnimation/RonsGoneWrong'', to be made available simultaneously on Max and either Disney+ or Hulu, in exchange for extending HBO's license to the end of 2022 and shrinking the amount of time HBO had to wait to premiere each film.[[/note]] Disney later relaxed those rules for a few titles, mainly to keep all of their Marvel titles on one platform. In March 2022, the service added the MCU's ''Defenders'' sub-franchise of TV series formerly distributed by Netflix (consisting of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'', ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'', ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'', ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'', ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}'', and ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''—all rated TV-MA). The service also rolled out updated parental controls, with mature content disabled by default. On July 22, 2022, ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'', ''Film/{{Logan}}'', and ''Film/Deadpool2'' were the first R-rated movies to stream on the service in the US, while on July 23rd, ''Marvel Zombies'' was announced as being the first Disney+ Original to carry a TV-MA rating.[[note]]Originally, a non-Marvel movie, ''Film/KissOfTheDragon'', was going to become the first R-rated film to stream on Disney+ in the US in April 2022, but that decision was later reversed[[/note]] Prior to those, Disney found itself on the losing end of fights with Creator/PeterJackson and Apple Corps to tone down the language of ''Series/TheBeatlesGetBack'' (particularly the "[[PrecisionFStrike f-bombs]]", which would normally merit an R or TV-MA rating), which became the first Disney+ program to get ContentWarnings for language.

** If you think Singapore got it bad in the waiting game, the rest of South-East Asia had it worse, with over a four month gap between Singapore and the next Asian country. Couple with the fact that only Singapore will be receiving the real Disney+ will the rest of Asia will be receiving the inferior Disney+ Hotstar... (The Philippines only got nearly lucky as their Disney+ is the same as the [=MENA=] version.) And then, there's Far East Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and (if that happens) the former Soviet countries (outside of Russia)...

* ''Godmothered'' (2020)

** ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' (2021-present)

** Due to rights issues with Universal and Sony over ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008'' and the ''Film/SpiderManHomeTrilogy'', Disney+ didn't have the complete Infinity Saga until 2023; they finally posted ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' in April, ''The Incredible Hulk'' in June, and ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' in November.
%%** Disney+ completed the ''Spider-Man Home Trilogy'' in 2024, with the addition of ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' in (insert month here).

* The majority of classic shorts (apart from those already on Disney+) are still not available there with many of them having last been seen on home media, such as both entries of the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresInMusicDuology''.

** ''Echo'' (2023)

* The majority of classic shorts (apart from those already on Disney+) are still not available there with many of them having last been seen on home media, such as both entries of ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresInMusicDuology''.

** From Latin America: the series ''Highway: Rolling Adventure'' is in 4:3 despite being produced in HD, like the aformentioned animated examples. Also, season 1 of ''Series/{{BIA}}'' uses the European masters, which are victim of being sped-up due to the frame rate difference between NTSC and PAL[=/=]SECAM.

** ''Film/IronMan1'' was unavailable in Japan and Spain until 2023 when Disney added the film to those regions.

** In countries without Hulu, ''Series/Runaways2017'' was available on launch, even if with seasons 2 and 3 entering only a few months later. The show with which it crosses over in one of the last episodes, ''Series/CloakAndDagger2018'', had to wait longer (2021 in Australia and Canada, 2022 in Latin America and Brazil).

** Solo movies featuring the Hulk and Spider-Man respectively that are canon to the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse are still under legal scrutiny with other studios as of 2022, meaning those wanting to watch the entirety of the MCU's Infinity Saga will need to view Universal's ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008'' (except in Japan and most of Europe), and Sony's ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' (except in the UK, Canada, and Latin America), ''[[Film/SpiderManFarFromHome Far From Home]]'' and ''[[Film/SpiderManNoWayHome No Way Home]]'' on other platforms. ''Film/IronMan1'' was unavailable in Japan and Spain until 2023 when Disney added the film to those regions.
*** During 2023, Disney gradually added ''The Incredible Hulk'' to the Canadian version of the service after Universal's rights to the film in the US and selected regions were set to expire that year before coming to the US version of the service on June 16th of that same year.

** MCU films that were distributed by Sony or Universal Pictures, such as the solo ''Spider-Man'' films for the former and ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}'' for the latter, for awhile did not appear at all on the service since the full rights to those films are with said studios. However, Disney has packaged those films on MCU DVD/Blu-Ray box sets under license from both studios. A 2021 deal between Disney and Sony has allowed ''Spider-Man'' films both before and after Spider-Man joining the MCU to become available on the service after their initial run on Creator/{{Starz}} (for pre-2022 films) or Creator/{{Netflix}} concludes. In 2022 ''Spider-Man: Homecoming'' was added in a few markets, along with many other Spider-Man movies... including ''Film/Venom2018'', which is about one of his enemies. In 2023, the Sam Raimi ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' as well as ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' was added to the service in the U.S. because of the deal as well as ''Homecoming'' and ''Venom''.

*** [[https://twitter.com/Ryan_Treasures/status/1710685426044813570 As one user on X (formerly Twitter) pointed out]], the Donald Duck/Chip and Dale short ''Chips Ahoy'' removes the scene where Donald blows cigar smoke on Chip and Dale.

* MilestoneCelebration: "Disney+ Day", a.k.a. November 12, which began two years after the service's launch. For the first celebration, the service celebrated with a large content dump including ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'', ''Film/JungleCruise'' (free to all subscribers), ''Olaf Presents'', ''[[Series/Intertwined2021 Intertwined]]''[[note]]Except for Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, which would all recieve the series around the end of 2021.[[/note]], season 2 of ''Series/TheWorldAccordingToJeffGoldblum'', [[WesternAnimation/CiaoAlberto shorts]] [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsInPlusaversary from]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Luca}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', new exclusive film ''Film/HomeSweetHomeAlone'', and special presentations/documentaries from Creator/MarvelStudios and ''Franchise/StarWars''.