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A Christmas Story, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Polar Express seen as America’s Greatest Holiday Movies

By Wes Styles Dec 9, 2021 | 5:21 AM

Another day, another survey looking at the ‘greatest’ or ‘best’ Christmas movies ever.

This one comes to us from streaming service Tubi. They asked 2,000 Americans about their favorite holiday flicks and found that Ralphie Parker’s quest for a Red Ryder BB gun in A Christmas Story was the best the them all.

A Charlie Brown Christmas followed second with It’s a Wonderful Life in third. The John Candy and Steve Martin comedy classic Planes, Trains, and Automobiles was fourth.

Here’s the Top 50…

1. A Christmas Story
2. A Charlie Brown Christmas
3. It’s a Wonderful Life
4. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
5. Home Alone
6. The Polar Express
7. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
8. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
9. The Shop Around the Corner
10. Santa Claus is Coming to Town
11. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
12. A Christmas Carol (1938)
13. A Christmas Carol (2009)
14. Miracle on 34th Street
15. A Christmas Carol (1999)
16. A Christmas Carol (1951)
17. White Christmas
18. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1967)
19. A Christmas Carol (1984)
20. The Santa Clause
21. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
22. Frosty the Snowman
23. Jingle All the Way
24. Four Christmases
25. The Muppet Christmas Carol
26. Christmas With the Kranks
27. The Nightmare Before Christmas
28. Eloise at Christmastime
29. The Christmas Wish
30. The Holiday
31. Christmas in Connecticut
32. Love Actually
33. Just Friends
34. The Preacher’s Wife
35. The Best Man Holiday
36. Scrooged (1988)
37. Elf
38. Arthur Christmas
39. Bad Santa
40. Nutcracker
41. Babes in Toyland (1961)
42. Holiday Inn
43. The Bishop’s Wife
44. Scrooge (1951)
45. Scrooge (1970)
46. Scrooge (1984)
47. The Family Stone
48. Meet Me in St. Louis
49. Babes in Toyland (1986)
50. Babes in Toyland (1934)