This 1946 classic is one of the all time Christmas greats. In a flashback in the film, George Bailey has spent his life giving up his big dreams for the good of other people. But in the present, on Christmas Eve, he is broken and suicidal due to misplacing an $8000 loan.

He is visited by his guardian angel, Clarence, who shows him how his town, family, and friends would turn out if he had never been born at all.