Short animated episodes follow a shepherd boy in the hills of Bethlehem long before the crown and the battlefield, finding courage, friendship and faith in the everyday work of tending sheep.
What is Young David about?
Young David is a 2024 animated series from the United States and South Africa, directed by Phil Cunningham and Brent Dawes. Each episode runs around six minutes and picks out one small moment from the childhood of the boy who would become Israel's king. Instead of giants and thrones, the series stays with the fields: a lost lamb, a frightening night, a melody worked out on a harp, a friend who needs standing up for. David learns that courage is practised in small doses, that kindness is a choice made again and again, and that faith is tested most sharply when he is afraid. The episodes are self-contained, so a family can watch one at bedtime or string several together, and the tone stays gentle enough for the youngest viewers while carrying enough warmth to hold older siblings and parents.
About the cast
The voice cast includes Brandon Engman, Sloan Lucas Muldown, Matthew Gair, David Rosenberg, Gabriella Lewis and Edan Moses. Co-directors Phil Cunningham and Brent Dawes shape the series as a run of compact, music-led stories rather than a single long arc.
Context & significance
Faith-based animation for children has grown into a steady genre of its own, and Young David sits squarely within it: a hero drawn from scripture, lessons that come from character rather than spectacle, and a format sized for short attention spans. The US-South Africa co-production gives it a cross-border animation pedigree, and the six-minute episode length makes it one of the shortest-form titles in the K-Time catalogue. For Persian-speaking families the series arrives with both a Farsi dub and Farsi subtitles, so younger children can follow it without reading while older ones can keep the subtitles on over the English audio and pick up some vocabulary along the way.
Watching Young David on Ktime
Young David streams on K-Time with a free account login. Choose the Persian dub for little ones or switch to Farsi subtitles over the original English track; the K-Time interface itself is available in Farsi, so moving between episodes is simple for the whole household.