Holiday Classics You Don't Want To Miss This Season

We're almost there, Christmas is officially six days away. During this time of year, we like to focus on holiday shopping for our loved ones, buying and decorating our Christmas trees, and basically doing whatever we can to prep for the big day that we can't wait to share with our family and friends. It's also the time where channels like Freeform start airing Christmas movies daily. If you haven't had the chance to watch yet, here are some Christmas classics you don't want to miss during the rest of the holiday season.

1. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

This 1964 Christmas special created by Rankin/Bass Productions is one that you definitely don't want to miss. Born with a shiny glowing red nose, Rudolph grows up feeling like a complete outsider, causing him to eventually run away from home. Along the way, Rudolph meets some other misfits and finally realizes that running away was never the solution. This holiday classic is full of fun, laughs, music, and life lessons for the whole family to enjoy.

2. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

The Griswold family is back. Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) is determined to give his family a “good old-fashioned family Christmas" this year and he'll do anything to make sure that happens including getting a Christmas tree by traveling out into the country and uprooting a huge one from the ground, inviting the bickering grandparents to stay with them, decorating the exterior of the house with 25,000 twinkling lights, and even dealing with the unannounced return of the dense Cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid). Full of crazy relatives, exploding turkeys, preppy neighbors, and plenty of other holiday shenanigans, this third installation of the National Lampoon's Vacation film series will have you laughing for sure.

3. The Year Without A Santa Claus

Another Rankin/Bass Productions Christmas classic, in this 1974 stop-motion movie Santa Claus comes down with a cold, and after being told by his doctor that no one cares about Christmas anymore, he decides to cancel Christmas and take a holiday. Wanting to help her husband, Mrs. Claus send two elves, Jingle and Jangle, to find proof that people believe in Santa Claus. Only along the way the elves get stuck in the path of the always-feuding Miser Brothers, Snow Miser and Heat Miser, and end up lost in South Town, a small town in the Southern United States. It is here that they meet and befriend a young boy named Iggy, who after a having a chance encounter with Santa, is determined to help Jingle, Jangle, and Mrs. Claus get people to start believing in Santa Clause. Will the Miser Brothers ruin things for them though?

4. A Charlie Brown Christmas

What adult or child doesn't enjoy a Peanuts movie? In this classic, Charlie Brown is not feeling the Christmas spirit, and no matter how hard he tries, it seems that the behavior of everyone around him is not helping his case.

This classic conveys the “reason of the season" with something profound and spiritual through Linus's speech, and even explores the message of Christmas commercialization, despite the young targeted audience.

Besides how can you not enjoy the catchy piano music and watching how all these kids dance?

5. The Nightmare Before Christmas

For years, many have questioned whether or not to call this loveably weird 1993 Tim Burton stop-motion animation film a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie, but many have concluded that it can fall under both categories. Jack Skellington,“The Pumpkin King," is a resident of Halloween town who is growing bored with his holiday. When he accidentally stumbles into Christmas Town, he becomes fascinated by it and decides that he wants to bring it to Halloween Town. What Jack doesn't know though is that the citizens of Halloween Town don't understand Christmas as he does. This movie is full of music, friendship, and lots of suspense that is bound to keep you watching.

6. Elf

This 2003 holiday comedy is bound to keep you laughing. Buddy (Will Ferrell) was raised by elves his whole life after being discovered in Santa's toy sack as an infant. After thirty years with them though he realizes he is a human and travels to New York City in search of his biological father. While in New York Buddy will discover a lot of new things, a shiny mail room, spaghetti, escalators; and maybe he'll even fall in love. Remember, “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear."