Best Films on DVD for Christmas For Teachers To Show In Their Classrooms

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When Christmas approaches and as early as mid-October, people start looking around for the Yuletide Season’s gifts to give to families and friends. One great gift to give are DVDs. Whether it’s a DVD for a Christmas story, a white Christmas, the heart-warming Miracle on 34^th Street and the all-time favourite A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, online video rentals or DVD rental stores from the shopping malls will doubtless be available.

Resource, facts and information on this list of chosen films include the film director and author, brief summary, the year the film was released and the leading actors.

Christmas in Connecticut

(1945), directed by Peter Godfrey, screenplay by Lionel Houser and Adele Comandini.

Plot: A food writer lies about being the perfect housewife. She must try to cover her deception when her boss and who is a returning hero invite himself to her home for the traditional family Christmas.

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck (Elizabeth Lane), Dennis Morgan (Jefferson Jones), Sydney Greenstreet (Alexander Yardley), Reginald Gardiner (John Sloan).

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

(1966), directed by Chuck Jones and Ben Washam, based from the book of Dr. Seuss.

Plot: A grumpy hermit, the Grinch is bitter and mean, schemes a plan to steal Christmas from the “Who is Who” of the Whoville. He is disgusted and irritated at the thought of the nearby village having a good time celebrating Christmas. He disguises himself as Santa Claus and with his dog made to look like Santa’s reindeer, the Grinch raids the village to steal all Christmas things.

Starring:  Boris Karloff as the narrator and The Grinch (voice)

It’s a Wonderful Life

(1946), directed by Frank Capra, screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett.

Plot: This is a story of a frustrated but a compassionate businessman. An angel helps him by showing to him what life would have been like if he never existed.  A great reflection to be grateful for blessings around and focus on the positive things life has to offer.

Starring:  James Stewart (George Bailey), Donna Reed (Mary Hatch), Lionel Barrymore (Mr. Potter), Thomas Mitchell (Uncle Billy).

Miracle on 34^th Street

(1947), directed and written for the screen by George Seaton, based on the story by Valentine Davies.

Plot: When a nice old man who calls himself Kris Kringle, claims to be Santa Claus, he is institutionalized as insane. A young lawyer, Fred Gailey, decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing, truly Santa Claus.

Starring:  Edmund Gwenn (Kris Kringle), Maureen O’Hara (Doris Walker), Susan Walker (Natalie Wood), John Payne (Fred Gailey), Gene Lockhart (Judge Henry X. Harper).

Scrooge

(1951), directed by Brian Desmond-Hurst, based from the classic novel of Charles Dickens, with adaptation by Noel Langley.

Plot: An old bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, is given a chance for redemption when he is haunted by ghosts on Christmas Eve. The story starts with Scrooge, a grumpy and unpopular elderly Briton. He was a banker and a moneylender. He has one sole nephew, Fred, who he doesn’t even bother to care. Above all, Scrooge hates Christmas for all that it represents. Sometime one Christmas Eve in 1843, Scrooge was visited by four spirits, who showed him that he had not always been miserable, with a message that he should embrace Christmas. What’s imparted to him is the importance of caring and giving, that his actions will have significant consequences if he won’t change his ways. Ever since that night, Scrooge’s transformation is immense as he becomes a wonderful old man, befits the true meaning of Christmas which is one of love, joy and sharing.

Starring:  Alastair Sim (Ebenezer Scrooge), Mervyn Johns (Bob Cratchit), Hermione Baddeley (Mrs Cratchit), Brian Worth (Fred), Michael Hordern (Jacob Marley / Marley’s Ghost), George Cole (Young Ebenezer Scrooge), Francis De Wolff (Spirit of Christmas Present), Michael Dolan (Spirit of Christmas Past), C. Konarski (Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come), Patrick Macnee (Young Jacob Marley).

These films are recommended for Christmas entertainment as they provide certain magic for the wonderful season of Yuletide, and for the whole Christendom, in celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, Messiah. They can be rented out at video rental stores or online video rentals.

Resource about the Best Christmas Films:

The Internet Movie Database IMDB.

Resource by Tel

Tel Asiado is a writer, author, and business consultant, previously, IT manager & consultant. Her articles reflect her interests, from small business, biographies & histories, to classical music especially Mozart, art & literature, biographies, and Christian writings. Tel has produced non-fictions, e-books and anthologies. Her education is MBA in Computer Management, BSc Chemistry, Diploma in Small Business & Internet Mktg, and Cert IV Training and Assessment (TAA). Her small office/home site is homebizideasnow.com, and numerous information of Mozart and classical music, mozartandclassicalmusic.com.

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