Global Perspectives
Lots of Christmas stories involve traveling across Geography to get home; what about traveling through the Past, Present and Future?
What is A Christmas Carol?
Can a train really run on a frozen lake covered in caribou? Only if it's a magic one...
What is the Polar Express?
This 1993 animated holiday classic explores what occurs when a ruler decides to conquer and rule a neighboring community, even with no knowledge of their culture.
What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?
R: Relevance - The identity of this 1988 action hit as a Christmas movie is often in dispute.
What is Die Hard?
The setting of this movie franchise was basically the only thing that changed from movie to movie...be it Chicago or New York.
What is Home Alone?
What is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation?
What makes the perfect Christmas tree? Scraggly, scrawny, and falling over in this 1965 hit.
What is A Charlie Brown Christmas?
Can a Santa reject his power? Not in this 1994 Disney comedy hit.
What is The Santa Clause?
A: Accuracy - Looking for the true story of how Christmas was saved? Look no further than this stop-motion 1964 animated classic.
What is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
The star of this holiday hit is known as a character actor...whether that character is a newscaster, a racecar driver, or...
What is Elf?
What is The Grinch?
One of the most famous lines from this winter animated film discusses the main character's tolerance for chilly weather.
What is Frozen?
Are you ready to own a pet? Maybe not the ones from this 1984 horror-comedy, which come with a very specific set of feeding and bathing rules.
What is Gremlins?
A: Authority - The idea of whether or not the narrator is reliable is a prominent theme in this 1983 Christmas classic.
What is A Christmas Story?
The plot of this Winter horror classic is in dispute; was it ghosts, a crazy guy, or a confession of faking the moon landing?
What is The Shining?
This movie, set at a Winter holiday, explores Pennsylvania's central tension between its urban and rural residents.
What is Groundhog Day?
Maybe don't try to drive home after finishing your novel in a Colorado snowstorm? Unless you like being trapped by a serial killer nurse who forces you to write a novel for her...
What is Misery?
Are all emperors bad? Not the singing, dancing kind in this 2006 animated Winter film.
What is Happy Feet?
C: Currency - Is it current? Perhaps not. But this 1946 holiday hit is consistently rated as the greatest Christmas movie of all time.
What is It's a Wonderful Life?
The central conflict surrounding this animated holiday classic is economic in nature: What really constitutes ownership of a material possession?
What is Frosty the Snowman?
Traveling across the entire country for Thanksgiving may not be as simple as it seems if you're stuck with a shower curtain ring salesman.
What is Planes, Trains, and Automobiles?
This 1954 holiday movie explores the economic consequences of an abnormally warm Vermont winter.
What is White Christmas?
What is the most important quality of "the" Santa Claus? Ruthless, calculated efficiency? Or the care for every individual child? We know the answer by the end of this animated Christmas film.
What is Arthur Christmas?
P: Purpose - The importance of resisting Communism was a recurring theme in many shape-shifting films, like this 1982 John Carpenter Winter classic.
What is The Thing?
This Winter movie's title is ALSO a name for a storytelling element in which the story ends without a proper resolution.
What is Cliffhanger?