Celebrate the Season with Kanopy

 

Celebrate the season with Kanopy, a streaming service available free with your WPL card. Learn about another culture, watch seasonal classics, and discover the meaning behind holiday traditions. You can watch 3 movies per month, and have 72 hours to watch the movie as many times as you like. If you do not have a Kanopy account, create one here. If you enjoy discussing films, try our Film Discussion Club. 

Seven Candles for Kwanzaa

This short film shows the unique African-American holiday that commemorates the strength of family ties, respect for ancestors, commitment to the growth of community, and gratitude for life's bounties.

Run time: 10 minutes

Rating: Not Rated 

Jingle Bell Rocks!

A trippy, cinematic sleigh ride into the strange & sublime universe of alternative & underground Christmas music, featuring The Flaming Lips, Run-DMC, The Free Design, Miles Davis & Bob Dorough, John Waters, and many more.

Run time: 95 minutes

Rating: Not rated 

In the Month of Kislev

A wealthy merchant learns the true meaning of Hanukkah when he takes the family of a poor peddler to court for savoring the smell of his wife's pancakes from outside their window.

Run time: 13 minutes

Rating: Not Rated 

Candles for New Years

For centuries, groups of Lahu have been migrating from southwestern China into the highlands of Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle region. Though they share much with other migrants in the ethnic patchwork of the region, the Lahu maintain a vigorous sense of themselves as a distinct people. New Years is their prime time for celebrating what it means to be Lahu.

Run time: 30 minutes 

Rating: Not rated 

The Man Who Invented Christmas

The story of the magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and other classic characters from A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens mixed real life inspirations with his vivid imagination to conjure up unforgettable characters and a timeless tale, forever changing the holiday season into the celebration we know today.

Run time: 105 minutes

Rating: PG

Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas

Set almost entirely in a Chinese restaurant, this film is an offbeat, irreverent musical documentary that tells the story of a group of Jewish songwriters, including Irving Berlin, Mel Torme, Jay Livingston, Gloria Shayne Baker and Johnny Marks, who wrote the soundtrack to Christianity's most musical holiday.

Run time: 53 minutes

Rating: Not rated