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Dataset

All Disney movies with their release dates, genre, rating, total gross and inflation adjusted gross(2016).
Disney has produced many movies, this data has all Disney movies till 2016.

Source: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/prateekmaj21/disney-movies/data

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DDL

Some interesting questions we can ask

What are the number of movies released by year

select extract(year from release_date) as release_year, 
count(*) as num_movies
from disney_movies group by release_year order by num_movies desc;

Similarly, number of movies by genre and rating

select mpaa_rating, count(*) from disney_movies group by mpaa_rating;
select genre, count(*) from disney_movies group by genre;

Top grossing genre and top movies in the genre

This is bit more involved, what if we want to find the top grossing genre and top 3 movies in each of those genres.

WITH ranked_genres AS (
    SELECT
        genre,
        total_gross as bo_collection,
        movie_title,
        ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY genre ORDER BY total_gross DESC) AS rn
    FROM
        disney_movies
)
SELECT
    *
FROM
    ranked_genres
WHERE
    rn <= 3;

WITH ranked_genres AS (
    SELECT
        genre,
        movie_title,
          total_gross,
        --SUM(total_gross) OVER (PARTITION BY genre ORDER BY total_gross desc) AS running_sum,
          ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY genre ORDER BY total_gross desc) AS rn
    FROM
        disney_movies
),
per_genre as (
  select genre, sum(total_gross) as total_gross_for_genre from ranked_genres
  group by genre
)
SELECT
    rg.genre, rg.movie_title, rg.total_gross as total_gross,
    pg.total_gross_for_genre
FROM
    ranked_genres rg
    inner join per_genre pg on rg.genre=pg.genre 
WHERE
    rn <= 3 order by total_gross_for_genre desc;

SQL Output

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Disney Movies Updated 12/3/25, 12:33 PM
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