You can see It's a Wonderful Life every day from Thanksgiving until Christmas Day on TV and maybe fit in a viewing of A Charlie Brown Christmas and the perennial favorite A Christmas Story.

But here are a few gems from the Library's collection which you may or may not catch on TV over the next few weeks. Take our suggestions or browse through our collection for dozens of other classics. Don't forget to look at our Juvenile section for Christmas favorites like Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

It's Christmastime for the Griswolds. There are 25,000 lights on the rooftop, an exploding turkey on the table, and a dozen or so guests. (VHS)

It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.

The story of Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king, who decides to bring the magic of Christmas back to Halloween Town

An orphaned human baby accidently crawls into Santa's sack one Christmas Eve and ends up at the North Pole where he is raised with elves. Buddy the Elf doesn't fit in with the other elves, so he goes to New York in search of his real father who doesn't yet know that he has a son. Buddy finds a job in a department store Christmas village and with the help of a beautiful department store elf and his new found family, helps to get Santa's crashed sleigh out of Central Park in time to complete Christmas deliveries.

An unfortunate cat burglar becomes trapped in a fate worse than jail when he takes a bickering couple and their annoying relatives hostage.

Why is the Grinch such a grouch? No one seems to know, until little Cindy Lou Who takes matters into her own hands and turns both Whoville and the Grinch's world upside down, inside out, and funny side up in her search for the true meaning of Christmas.

Action drama about New York City policeman John McClane, newly arrived in Los Angeles to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged wife. But as McClane waits for his wife's office party to break-up, terrorists seize control of the building. While the terrorists round up hostages, McClane slips away unnoticed, and, armed with only a service revolver and his cunning, he launches his own one-man war. (VHS)

When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.

Modern version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Bill Murray portraying a nasty, uncaring, unforgiving TV network president. On Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts who show him the error of his ways.