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A compilation of highlights from his annual Christmas Specials, this collector's addition features Bing singing White Christmas, Silent Night and 21 other favorites. Hosted by Gene Kelly, it includes appearances by many stars including Fred Astaire, Jackie Gleason, Michael Landon, Berna dette Peters and more.
A double Irish celebration of the Christmas season with a superb combination of song, music, and majestic cathedrals in this two-video set. A remarkable group of Ire land's finest musicians, choirs and soloists celebrates Christmas with unique renditions of seasonal favorites. Nigel Williams, Frankie Gavin, Delores Kean, and others join with the RTE concert Orchestra and Philharmonic Choir, the Galway Baroque Singers and others at St. Patrick's Cathed ral, Dublin.
The Christmas Box Maureen O'Hara and Richard Thomas star in this heartwarming holiday classic about a struggling young family who live as groundskeepers on the estate of the huge old mansion of a strident, aloof, widow. When the family discovers a secret, mysterious Christmas box in the mansion attic, they come to understand and love the enigmatic widow, and appreciate the true meaning of Christmas. Poignant and superbly acted. Timepiece A follow-up to the classic The Christmas Box , we learn the story of how Jenna (Richard's daughter) met and fell in love with David Parkin. At their wedding, David gave Mary a timepiece which was brought to him by his friend Lawrence (James Earl Jones). When a sudden disaster strikes the family, they learn to discover the timeless truths about the gift of sharing and the power of forgiveness.
Share the story behind the characters in Norman Rockwell's famous painting. Samuel Cavanaugh, a Scrooge-like character, fond ly revisits an old frozen swimming hole for ice-skating each year to relive the happier moments in his life, before he lost his son in World War II. There he meets and unhappy boy who also has a painful secret. A special holiday film filled with faith, hope and inspiration.
George C. Scott stars in this critically acclaimed version of Charles Dickens' holiday classic as old miserly Ebenezer Scrooge who scoffs at Victo rian Yuletide spirit, threatening both his immortal soul and the Cratechit family's Christ mas. But a visit from three spirits on Christmas Eve convince Scrooge that it's not too late to change his ways and savor the joys of the season.
Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman star in this warm comedy that won the hearts of millions and an Academy Award. Ringing with heartfelt joy and wonderful songs, it shows how the new parish priest, Father O'Malley, and its no-nonsense principal, Sister Benedict, team up to save St. Mary's from closing. Colorized.
Based on O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi , this touching tale of selflessness is played against the tapestry of 1900s New York City. A wealthy orphan girl struggles between her desire to please her relatives and her love for a kind, but poor young Swiss immigrant. Marie Osmond and Timothy Bottoms bring O. Henry's Christmas valentine lovingly to the screen.
Flagg Purdy won't pay the county phone tax or allow his wife and eleven children to celebrate any holiday. He rules his life, and theirs, by his "principles". But something has just happened to his well-ordered universe. His favorite daughter has decided to get married and to celebrate Christmas with a tree and presents. Christmas is coming to the Purdy household. A story of love, devotion and Christmas. Starring Alan Arkin.
Here is the Christmas story as you have never experienced it. You'll feel like you are back in Jerusalem at the time of the Messiah's birth. Bethlehem Year Zero presents the events of 2000 years ago as though they were breaking news today. This is no nativity play treatment of Christ's birth but an attempt to set it in the real political and social context of the time based on the best available sources and research. A mad tyrant Herod, a turbulent and rebellious people living under Roman occupation, mass executions - all are under the shadow of the greatest astronomical event in 800 years, at a time when astrology was the cutting edge of political science. Although the news is presented as happening now, we have real political analysts and on-the-scene correspondents who discuss the threat to Herod's succession and the danger to him if he fails to control this unruly province. The culmination of this story is Herod's genocidal murder of 22 Bethlehem infants.
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