Nigella’s Amsterdam Christmas Special (2023)

Every night in December people in a small suburb of Philadelphia flock to a holiday light show. They drive at a snails pace through the 2 mile stretch of beautiful light displays, listening to holiday music, soaking up the Christmas spirt. But at the end of each night one man drives the stretch alone, turning off all of the lights, ending the joy day after day. This is his story.

A look into the origins of Christmas from its pagan beginnings, through its Christianisation, to the current incarnation as we know it today. The program discovers why holly, mistletoe, feasting and gift-giving have become synonymous with Christmas celebrations and examines various cultures' celebrations of the Christmas season.

A glimpse into a visual representation of memory; A Christmas-time series of meals, coffees, and movies, with friends, lovers, and housemates. Faced with the compounding of faces and places, each moment begins to collide with one another: voices are muddled, and faces are broken. How is memory created? How are they separated from one another?

Recreating festivities from Henry VIII's era, Lucy Worsley dresses, eats, drinks, sings and parties like it is 500 years ago - discovering long-lost traditions as well as familiar customs.

A musical celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Christmas classic. Hosted by Kristen Bell.

This one-hour special includes some archival interviews with the film's biggest stars like Peter Billingsley, but there are new, original interviews with some of the supporting actors and updates on their lives and careers. The actor who played Flick gives away the secret of how they filmed the flag pole scene. "Where Are They Now?" also visits the Cleveland house used for the film's exterior and previews the musical version of the film that's been making the rounds during recent holiday seasons and is now on Broadway.

Lucy Worsley reveals the surprising stories behind our favourite Christmas carols. From pagan rituals to religious conflicts, French dances and the First World War, carols reflect our history.

Two great filmmakers discuss the evolution of film, 70mm and Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight".

Did you know that the quaint custom of Christmas caroling actually began with drunk and rowdy revelers threatening people door to door looking for food and liquor? Early versions of the heartwarming legend of Santa Claus described him as a horrible devil named Krampus who beat and kidnapped naughty children. In America during the 17th and 18th Centuries, celebrating Christmas was against the law! There's a lot to tell about the history of Christmas, and a lot you may not know. Along the way, meet Ebenezer Scrooge and George Bailey, The Grinch and Rudolph, and learn the true origins of our Christmas traditions. So grab some eggnog and a slice of fruitcake as HISTORY unwraps THE REAL STORY OF CHRISTMAS.

From bespoke baubles to extravagant gifts and £615000 diamond-encrusted tree toppers, this programme meets the people supplying and buying a top-end Christmas.

Para Lego, la época más importante del año son las Navidades. Y es que más de la mitad de sus ventas se realizan en estas fechas. Este documental visita una de las sedes de LEGO para averiguar cómo se preparan estas fechas, qué factores tienen en cuenta para el diseño y la fábrica de estos famosos juguetes que tantos seguidores tienen. Descubriremos cómo se lanzan las campañas de publicidad y todo el trabajo necesario para mantenerse líderes en el competitivo mundo juguetero. Además compartiremos la pasión por Lego de algunos fans muy especiales, que nos enseñarán espectaculares construcciones navideñas.

Una noche de cine: ¡Feliz Navidad! es un viaje lleno de oropel a través de las películas navideñas más icónicas de todos los tiempos, incluidas las favoritas eternas It's A Wonderful Life (1946) y Miracle on 34th Street (1947). El especial analiza variaciones dentro del género, como romances navideños, películas familiares e incluso suspenso. Una noche de cine: ¡Feliz Navidad! presenta historias detrás de escena y recuerdos navideños personales de Hollywood de personas como Chevy Chase, Margaret O'Brien, Chazz Palminteri, Deborah Raffin, Karolyn Grimes, Zack Ward, Brian Henson, Joe Dante, Trine Mitchum, los autores Julie Salamon y Alonso Duralde, Michael Patrick Hearn, un experto en villancicos de Navidad, y muchos más.

In JINGLE BELL ROCKS!, director Mitchell Kezin delves into the minds of some of the world’s most legendary Christmas music fanatics and hits the road to hang with his holiday heroes – including hip hop legend Joseph “Rev Run” Simmons of RUN-D.M.C., The Flaming Lips’ frontman Wayne Coyne, filmmaker John Waters, bebopper Bob Dorough, L.A. DJ and musicologist Dr. Demento, and Calypso legend The Mighty Sparrow. In his search for the twelve best, underappreciated Christmas songs ever recorded, Kezin both asks and answers the question, “Why, when Christmas rolls around, are we still stuck cozying up with Bing Crosby under a blanket of snow?”

Phil Hartman hosts this retrospective look back at the legacy and making of the classic 1966 holiday special 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'

This documentary visits the towns and villages of the Alsace region of France at Christmastime. See the charmingly decorated storybook towns and learn of the unique holiday traditions and celebrations. The Alsatian landscape is covered with medieval towns, castle ruins and vineyards, and the communities of the region create a season of enchantment in their celebration of Christmas.

En este especial de temporada, Gordon Buchanan se encuentra con los animales que viven en las maravillas invernales de la naturaleza. Revela sus secretos de supervivencia, desde la madre osa polar que da a sus cachorros el mejor inicio posible en la vida hasta el búho que encuentra comida escondida debajo de una manta de nieve, además de los valientes pingüinos que se apiñan para mantenerse calientes. Gordon también desentraña las vidas de nuestros personajes navideños favoritos: ¡esos maravillosos renos y nuestro propio petirrojo!

Every year, tens of thousands don the Red Suit for families, parties and parades, but only a handful of men have reclaimed the connection to childhood magic by turning the portrayal of Santa into a full-time career. They Wore the Red Suit is a documentary featuring the rare individuals who have devoted their lives to keeping that magic alive in the world by actually being Santa Claus 365 days a year.

The program on this DVD is basically a retrospective produced in the early 1990s for public television that was originally called «A Bing Crosby Christmas: Just Like the Ones You Used to Know» that was narrated by Gene Kelly and hosted by Bing's widow, Kathryn Crosby. The program itself features clips from fifteen of Bing's classic television specials, concentrating on the period from the early 1960s onwards when he included Kathryn and their three children in the programs.

Dolly Parton returns home to Sevierville and to Dollywood where she joins her family and friends to share songs and memories of the holidays in this 1990 TV special to accompany her Christmas CD Home for the Holidays.