40 Non-Traditional Holiday Films

The Holiday season is here, and with it for many of us there will be lots of movie watching. Listed here are 25 30 35 40 non-traditional holiday films that can be found in the Ithaca College Library. They span almost 90 years of movie making, with pictures from every decade from the nineteen twenties to the twenty teens. Some are appropriately sappy. Others use the holiday season as a backdrop for satirical, biting, or sinister reasons. A few have nothing to do with the holidays except for a scene or two -- but oh, those scenes are what make those movies worth watching.

Happy Holidays!

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The Ithaca College Library actually does have quite a few conventional holiday movies, too, including these:

• It's a wonderful life DVD 3944
• Miracle on 34th Street DVD 5744
• White Christmas DVD 5734
• Jean Shepherd's A Christmas story  DVD 497
• Baryshnikov's The nutcracker DVD 8516
• How the Grinch stole Christmas [the movie, not the TV special] DVD 7946
• Shop around the corner; Christmas in Connecticut; and It happened on 5th avenue DVD 6811
• Holiday Inn DVD 6379
• Amahl and the night visitors DVD 4145
• Going my way DVD 4284
• Mrs. Santa Claus DVD 2112
• Home alone DVD 5081
• The Santa Clause 1, 2 & 3  DVD 7794
• Elf DVD 8321
• Polar Express DVD 3209

Plus these variations on A Christmas Carol:

• A Christmas carol (1951) DVD 488
• A Christmas carol (1938) DVD 6811
• Scrooge [the musical] DVD 5608
• Scrooged DVD 8590