{+} Adapted from fairytales, folklore and legends:

 

Aladdin	Arab folktale from One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
Beauty and the Beast	The Fairytale Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle Villanueve and Madame Leprince de Beaumont
Chicken Little	Loosely based on the fable - The Sky is Falling
Cinderella	Based on the classic fairytale, Cinderella
The Emperor's New Groove	Distantly related to the 1837 fairytale Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen. Storyline based on Mark Twain's 1881 novel The Prince and the Pauper
Hercules	Based on the legendary Greek mythology hero Hercules (Heracles)
The Little Mermaid	Based on the 1836 fairytale The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson
Mulan	Based on the Chinese legend of the heroine Hua Mulan
Pocahontas	The title character based on the real life legend/life of the Native American heroine Pocahontas
Peter Pan	Based on the 1904 play Peter Pan by James Matthew Barrie
Pinocchio	Based on the 1881 children's novel Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Robin Hood	Based on the famous tales of the English folklore hero Robin Hood
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	Fairytale collected by Brothers Grimm
Song of the South	Based on characters from the tales of Joel Chandler Harris
Sleeping Beauty	Based on the fairytale/ballet by Charles Perrault and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

{+} Others
 

Atlantis, The Lost Empire	Based on the legendary island of Atlantis, according to the account of Plato Speculated to be inspired by the anime show Nadia: the Secret of the Water
Brother Bear	Primarily inspired by Native American and Inuit legends and myths.
Dinosaur	Loosely based on The Countdown to Extinction ride at Walt Disney World, which was renamed Dinosaur.
Lilo and Stitch	Original idea by Chris Sanders
The Lion King	Basic storyline inspired by William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Often speculated to be greatly inspired by Osamu Tezuka's anime feature, Kimba the White Lion, due to numerous similarities between the two animations.
The Nightmare Before Christmas	Original idea and storyline by Tim Burton Inspired by Dr. Seuss's children's book How the Grinch Stole Christmas Title is a pun on the famous poem Twas the Night Before Christmas