Holiday Movies, Shows & Specials for the Whole Family (+ Where To Stream Them!)

We’ve watched our fair share of holiday and Christmas movies, shows and specials over the last few weeks. I thought I’d share a huge round-up of some of our faves (that we’ve watched and that are on our “to watch” list) that the whole family enjoyed!

Below you’ll find everything from holiday classics, to holiday episodes of our son’s favorite shows, to holiday decorating and musical specials. I broke it down by streaming platform, so you can see what’s available on the app(s) you have.

This is only a FRACTION of the holiday content that’s out there, but if you’re looking for something fun to watch this holiday break, hopefully it will be a good starting point!

Disney+

Holiday Specials & Shorts:

• Decorating Disney: Holiday Magic
• Disney Holiday Singalong
• Disney Magical Holiday Celebration
• From Our Family To Yours
• Prep & Landing
• Olaf’s Frozen Adventure

Holiday Episodes of Disney Junior Shows:

• Bluey: Verandah Santa
• The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special
• Elena of Avalor: Snow Place Like Home
• Muppet Babies: A Very Muppet Babies Christmas

If you go to the “Disney” Section on Disney+, there is a section featuring all the Disney Jr. holiday episodes!

Movies

• Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
• Home Alone (1-3)
• Jingle All The Way
• Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas
• Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas
• Mickey’s Christmas Carol
• The Muppets Christmas Carol
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Nutcracker & The Four Realms
• The Santa Clause (1-3)

Netflix

Movies:

• How the Grinch Stole Chrsitmas
• Jingle Jangle (If there is ONE holiday movie you watch this year, it should be this one. IN-CREDIBLE.)

Holiday Specials:

• Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker
• The Holiday Movies That Made Us (Nightmare Before Christmas, Elf)
• The Movies That Made Us (Home Alone)
• Holiday Home Makeover with Mr. Christmas
• Mariah Carey’s Merriest Christmas

Holiday Shows:

• Motown Magic: Christmas Everyday
• Super Monsters: Santa’s Super Monster Helpers
• Super Monsters Save Christmas
• Trash Truck Christmas

Amazon

• The Grinch (To buy/rent only)
• The Nutcracker (1993 NYC Ballet version, to buy/rent only)
• Daniel’s Winter Wonderland
• The Snowy Day
• Wild Kratz: A Creature Christmas

Apple TV

• A Charlie Brown Christmas
• Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special

HBO Max

• Elf
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
• Jack Frost
• Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas
• A Sesame Street Christmas Carol

Peacock

• Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes
• Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas
• The Grinch Musical
• Annie Live

Food Network GO

• Buddy vs Christmas
• Candy Land
• Christmas Cookie Challenge
• Holiday Baking Championship
• Holiday Gingerbread Showdown
• Holiday Wars

Freeform

• Christmas with the Kranks
• Decorating Disney: Holiday Magic
• The Holiday (Ok, not necessarily a family movie, but it’s my all-time personal fave, and our son does love the magical tent scene!)

YouTube

We watch a LOT of parades, rides, behind the scenes features and holiday light shows on YouTube. And also some classics that I loved from my childhood. Here’s the links for some of them!

• Frosty the Snowman
• Once Upon a Christmastime Disney Parade
• Christmas Fantasy Parade
• It’s A Small World Holiday Lights + Projection Show
• It’s A Small World Holiday Ride
• Cinderella Castle Christmas Projection
• A Frozen Holiday Wish Castle Lighting
• Haunted Mansion Holiday Ride-along
• The Grinch Christmas House Projection Show
• Jingle Jangle Behind the Scenes
• Jingle Jangle Set Tour

Since I know I’m missing a ton here, leave your faves (and how you watch them) below!! I’ll continue to add to this list if we discover other ones we love!