Christmas Classics: Top 10 Holiday Movies

Do you have a favorite Christmas movie that you watch year after year and never tire of seeing it.

We decided to do a little research and find the top holiday classic films. Here's our picks, if we've missed any, let us know. The first five are from the 1940s and 1050s era - then we jumped ahead a couple of decades to round out our top 10.

1. It's a Wonderful Life: 1946 with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed is a magical tale of a man who's allowed to see what his family, his friends and his community would have been like if he had never been born. It has became one of the most-loved holiday films.

2. Miracle on 34th Street: 1947 with Natalie Wood and Maureen O'Hara is a charming tale of a department-store Santa who believes he really is Kris Kringle - and he just may be. And the courtroom battle to establish Kris' sanity and the real identity of Santa Claus is a treat.

3. White Christmas: 1954 with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Rosemary Clooney is a light romantic comedy-musical that was built around a long-established holiday hit "White Christmas" and features some great sets and costumes.

4. A Christmas Carol: Dickens classic has been produced for stage and screen. The 1951, the black-and-white British version where Alastair Sim's Scrooge is visited by the Christmas Eve ghosts is generally considered among the best.

5. The Bishop's Wife: 1947 with Cary Grant. A charming story about a bishop trying to get a new cathedral built prays for guidance. An angel (Cary Grant) arrives, but his guidance isn't about fundraising.

6. Elf: 2003 with Will Ferrell. After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity.

7. A Christmas Story: 1983 with Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon and Darren McGavin is about a young boy named Ralphie who tries to convince his parents, his teacher, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect gift.

8. How the Grinch Stole Christmas: 1 2000 remake with Jim Carrey, this film is the classic cartoon about a creature intent on stealing Christmas.

9. The Nightmare Before Christmas: 1993 with Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn't quite understand the concept. 

10: A Charlie Brown Christmas: 1965, the animated classic about a boy repelled by the commercialism he sees around him, tries to find the true meaning of Christmas.