Disney Christmas Movies: Best Films to Watch for the Holidays

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1. Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas

Mickey, Donald, Minnie, Daphne, and the rest of the Disney gang get ready for the holidays in five movie shorts. And for the first time, they're computer animated!

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2. The Search for Santa Paws

If you're searching for a film with cuteness factor, here it is. An elf and a team of magical pups team up to restore Santa's memory. It doesn't get more precious than that.

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3. The Ultimate Christmas Present

Brenda Song from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody makes an epic appearance in this holiday Disney Channel Original Movie in which two best friends acquire Santa's weather machine and cause utter havoc when they create a snow day on the West Coast, after which the machine breaks.

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4. Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas

Disney Channel's iconic mother-daughter duo — played by Bridgit Mendler and Leigh-Allyn Baker — fight the odds (and the many obstacles in their way) to meet the rest of the family in time for Christmas.

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5. The Muppet Christmas Carol

It's the classic Christmas Carol tale, retold by everybody's favorite team of muppets.

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6. Beauty and the Beast: Enchanted Christmas

Surprise, surprise — Belle is dead-set on changing Beast's mind after she finds out he harbors a deep, inexplicable hatred for the holiday season. Chaos ensues as Belle and the rest of the castle's enchanted accessories work to show Beast just how magical Christmastime can be.

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7. Nightmare Before Christmas

Jack Skellington is the king of Halloween Town, but when he discovers Christmas Town, chaos and confusion ensue as he attempts to bring Christmas to his own town.

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8. The Santa Clause

Is it even December if you haven't watched Tim Allen in his most memorable role of all time? (LOL, besides voice acting in Toy Story!) It's only right to watch this one with the fam, as Scott Calvin accidentally becomes the next Santa Claus.

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9. Mickey's Christmas Carol

Again, it's another retelling of the classic Christmas story we all know and love, only with lovable characters like Minnie, Mickey, and the ever-frustrating Scrooge McDuck.

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10. A Muppet Family Christmas

Kermit and the crew are planning a holiday getaway at Fozzie Bear's mom's family farm. As always is the case with the muppets, a little bit of havoc breaks out, but the gang gets it together in time for Christmas.

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11. Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year

Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet, and the rest of the inhabitants of the 100 Acre Woods get together to celebrate the holiday seasons.

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12. Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas

Divided into three-part shorts, Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas follows a trio of stories: Donald Duck's nephews as they relive Christmas Day over and over again, Groundhog Day style, Goofy as he tries to convince his son Max that Santa is real, and Mickey and Minnie as they act out the classic Gift of the Magi tale.

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13. A Christmas Carol (2009)

Jim Carrey as the iconic grump Ebenezer Scrooge? It's a match made in heaven. (Not to mention, the animation is so unbelievably life-like!)

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14. Prep & Landing

It's cute, it's funny, and it follows the members of Santa's elite elf squad — the Prep and Landing unit.

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15. I'll Be Home for Christmas

Jake only has a few days to get home to the East Coast for Christmas… Or else his father won't gift him the family sports car. But he's "kidnapped" a few days before by some annoying bullies who leave him stranded in the desert in nothing but a Santa suit and a glued-on hat and beard.

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