Sinbad The Sailor - Sinbad in Popular Culture - Films, TV, Animation

Films, TV, Animation

Many films, television series, animated cartoons, novels, and video games have been made, featuring Sinbad not as a merchant who happens to stumble into adventures, but as a dashing dare-devil adventure-seeker.

  • Sinbad the Sailor (1935) Directed by Ub Iwerks
  • Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)
  • Sinbad the Sailor (1947)
  • Son of Sinbad (1955)
  • The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
  • Arabian naito: Shindobaddo no bôken (Arabian Nights: Adventures of Sinbad) (1962) (animated Japanese film)
  • Captain Sindbad (1963)
  • Sindbad contro i sette saraceni (Sindbad against the Seven Sacarans). Italian film that was released in the USA as Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens (1964)
  • Sindbad Alibaba Aladin (1965)
  • Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt (1965)
  • Sehzade Sinbad kaf daginda (Prince Sinbad of the Mountains) (1971) (Turkish film)
  • Sinbad and the Caliph of Baghdad (1973)
  • Pohádky Tisíce a Jedné Noci (Tales of 1,001 Nights) (1974), a seven-part animated film by Karel Zeman
  • The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974)
  • Arabian Nights: Sinbad's Adventures (Arabian Naitsu: Shinbaddo No Bôken, 1975)
  • Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
  • Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989)
  • Sinbad (1993)
  • The Fantastic Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor (1996–1998)
  • The Adventures of Sinbad (1996–98)
  • Alif Laila – A TV series by Sagar Films (Pvt.Ltd.) for DD National. Also shown on SAB TV & Ary Digital TV channels (1997)
  • Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights (1998)
  • Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists (2000)
  • Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
  • Princess Dollie Aur Uska Magic Bag (2004–2005): Sinbad is a main character.
  • "Backyardigans" (2007) episode: Sinbad Sails Alone
  • Sinbad The Fifth Voyage In-Production: Giant Flick Films (2010)
  • The 7 Adventures of Sinbad (2010) film by The Asylum
  • Sinbad and The Minotaur (2011) starring Manu Bennett
  • Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage (2011) starring Shahin Sean Solimon
  • Sinbad: A Pakistani television show on Wikkid Plus starring Sohail Mirza as Sinbad.
  • Sinbad (2012) A UK television series from Sky1.

A pair of foreign films that had nothing to do with the Sinbad character were released in North America with the hero being referred to as "Sinbad" in the dubbed soundtrack. The 1952 Russian film Sadko (based on Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Sadko) was overdubbed and released in English in 1962 as The Magic Voyage of Sinbad, while the 1963 Japanese film Dai tozoku (whose main character was a heroic pirate named Sukezaemon) was overdubbed and released in English in 1965 as The Lost World of Sinbad.

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