--- title: Christmas movie supercut description: A supercut of Christmas movies, from the classics to more modern additions. canonical: https://time.com/3616360/christmas-movies-supercut/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-03T20:18:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:59.593Z og:title: Watch a Two-Minute Supercut of All Your Favorite Christmas Movies og:description: It's much shorter than the Hallmark Channel marathon og:url: https://time.com/3616360/christmas-movies-supercut/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbb1179008c0cbae6/69876c71cd1bba4e616f3e67/love-actually.jpg?branch=production&width=1000&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1000 og:image:height: 563 og:image:alt: MCDLOAC EC003 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Two-Minute Supercut of All Your Favorite Christmas Movies twitter:description: It's much shorter than the Hallmark Channel marathon twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbb1179008c0cbae6/69876c71cd1bba4e616f3e67/love-actually.jpg?branch=production&width=1000&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch a Two-Minute Supercut of All Your Favorite Christmas Movies > Sponsored content. 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Dec 3, 2014 8:18 PM UTC Like it or not, Thanksgiving is over, and the barrage of Christmas cheer won’t be stopping until the sidewalks are strewn with the carcasses of Douglas firs. But since you probably haven’t heard “Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time” six dozen times on the radio, two minutes of Christmas fun are still relatively innocuous. This supercut of “The Greatest Christmas Films of All Time” combines 1940s classics like _It’s a Wonderful Life_ and _Miracle on 34th Street_ with modern additions to the genre, including _Love Actually_ and _Elf_. With a few middling selections like 2003’s _Bad Santa_ and the Arnold Schwarzenegger dud _Jingle All the Way_, there’s a case to be made for removing the word “Greatest” from the video’s title. But there are enough gems to let the stinkers slide. ‘Tis the season to be generous, after all. _MORE:_ [_See the Top 10 Movies of 2014_](http://time.com/3616154/top-10-best-movies-2014/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3616360/christmas-movies-supercut/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3616360/christmas-movies-supercut/"},"headline":"Watch a Two-Minute Supercut of All Your Favorite Christmas Movies","datePublished":"2014-12-03T20:18:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:59.593Z","description":"It's much shorter than the Hallmark Channel marathon","url":"https://time.com/3616360/christmas-movies-supercut/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","christmas","santa claus"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbb1179008c0cbae6/69876c71cd1bba4e616f3e67/love-actually.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbb1179008c0cbae6/69876c71cd1bba4e616f3e67/love-actually.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"MCDLOAC EC003","caption":"MCDLOAC EC003","creditText":"Universal","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3616360/christmas-movies-supercut/","name":"Watch a Two-Minute Supercut of All Your Favorite Christmas Movies"}}]}] ```