Part of our family countdown to Christmas includes holiday movies. Now, there are many we watch separately – I don’t do the Grinch I don’t care what version you show me and I know my 9yo has no interested in small country town romances that Hallmark delivers. So here’s our list for 2019 of the nightly family holiday tales we’ll be enjoying!
= COMPLETED- Klaus (2019) Netflix Original
- Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer (2018) | Netflix
- An American Christmas Carol – the Fonz as Scrooge – who can resist?! | Amazon Prime
- Christmas Break-In (2019) | Netflix – made it through first 20 minutes. not for us.
- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | YouTube – this is our current bedtime read aloud book so thought would be fun to find the special for my son to have a little context.
- White Christmas | Netflix – this classic ranks in my top 3 for season!
- Santa’s Apprentice | Netflix
- Disney’s The Nutcracker And The Four Realms | Netflix – one of the 9yo’s favorites from last year; my first time to watch
- It’s a Wonderful Life | Amazon Prime – this classic ranks in my top 3 for season!
- The Man who Invented Christmas | Amazon Prime – loved this last year so time to see if the boy does too
- The Flintstones’ Christmas Special | Amazon Prime – gotta love the irony of prehistoric people celebrating Christmas – ho ho ho!
- Prancer | Amazon Prime
- Christmas Cartoons: 14 Christmas Cartoon Classics | Amazon Prime
- Jack Frost AND Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town (1970) – those vintage TV classics | Amazon Prime
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) AND The Little Drummer Boy (1968) – again the classic animated TV specials | Amazon Prime
- Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas (1999) | Amazon Prime
- Love Actually | Amazon Prime – this classic ranks in my top 3 for season!
- The Polar Express | Hulu although we’ll be catching it a local theater whose showing on big screen
- A Christmas Carol x3! So many versions!
- The Snowman | Netflix
- Tne Nutcracker: The Untold Story | Amazon Prime
- Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997) | Amazon Prime
- A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) | Amazon Prime
- The Star | Netflix