# The Imagineering Story (2019)

> Filmmaker Leslie Iwerks traces the past, present and future of Walt Disney Imagineering, the company's theme park design arm.

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## Facts

- Seasons: 2
- Episodes: 6
- Episode runtime: 63 min
- Status: Returning Series
- Genres: documentary
- Created by: Leslie Iwerks
- Network: Disney+
- Cast: Angela Bassett, Walt Disney, Roy O. Disney
- TMDB rating: 8.9/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9331982/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: nostalgic, warm, curious, reverent, uplifting

## What critics say

Audiences broadly acclaim the documentary for its warm, behind-the-scenes access to how Walt Disney Imagineering builds the parks and attractions.

## Synopsis

The Imagineering Story (2019) is a United States documentary docuseries created by Leslie Iwerks for Disney+. Filmmaker Leslie Iwerks, whose grandfather was an early Disney animator and whose father was a former Imagineer, serves as the guiding voice across six episodes of roughly sixty-three minutes each. Narrated by Angela Bassett, the series moves through the past, present and future of Walt Disney Imagineering, the creative engineering division that designs the company's theme parks and attractions. Its engine is the process itself: how sketches become rides, how concept artists, engineers and show designers solve problems of illusion and scale, and how the studio's founding vision carries forward into new projects. Archival footage of Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney sits alongside present-day interviews, giving the series a nostalgic and reverent register that is warm, curious and admiring. Its atmosphere is that of a behind the scenes tour, with a sense of wonder about craft and invention. Viewers drawn to behind the scenes studio portraits, theme park history or animation craft will find resonance here, in the vein of Pixar: Pixar Story and Abstract: The Art of Design.

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