Thanksgiving 2014: 5 Best Movies to Download from iTunes for Turkey Day

As one of the most important American holidays, Thanksgiving is a great chance for us to spend time with our families and give our thanks to them. In the Thanksgiving Day, we go to church, have costume parade, cook turkey and play Thanksgiving football. Aside from those traditional activities to celebrate the Thanksgiving, watching a Thanksgiving-themed movie with the whole family during or after Thanksgiving dinner is also a popular way to get into the spirit of the Turkey Day. For iTunes users, you might have already started the movie collection plan for the upcoming Thanksgiving 2014. Here we've listed the top 5 Thanksgiving films sold on iTunes store from heartwarming classics to laugh-out-loud comedies for your reference.

Top 5 Classic Thanksgiving Movies on iTunes Store

No.5 Addams Family Values (1993)

Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, Addams Family Values is the sequel to the 1991 American dark comedy film The Addams Family. It tells the story when the Addams family welcomes a new baby, they hire a devious nany, Cussack, who falls in love with and marries Fester. Her true intentions are revealed as a serial killer who marries wealthy men but she is no match for the insanity of the Addams.

No.4 The Nut Job (2014)

The Nut Job is a Canadian-South Korean-American 3D computer-animated heist-comedy film directed by Peter Lepeniotis based on his 2005 short animated film Surly Squirrel. When a grumpy squirrel gets kicked out of his park due to his attitude, he decides that he's not going to be beat and plans an hilarious caper to try and rob Maury's Nut Shop so that he can stock up on food for the long winter. It's undoubtedly a nice movie to watch with kids in Thxsgiving.

No.3 Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

This film stars Steve Martin as Neal Page, a high-strung marketing executive, who meets Del Griffith, played by John Candy, an eternally optimistic, overly talkative, and clumsy shower curtain ring salesman who seems to live in a world governed by a different set of rules. They share a three-day odyssey of misadventures trying to get Neal home to Chicago from New York City in time for Thanksgiving dinner with his wife and kids.

No.2 Free Birds (2013)

This American 3D computer-animated buddy comedy film Free Birds is perhaps the most overtly Thanksgiving themed movie which features a turkey afraid of being killed on Thanksgiving who is given the presidential pardon and then goes back in time to the first Thanksgiving to try and get turkeys off the menu for the holiday. This a great film for the whole family and stars Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Amy Poehler.

No.1 A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973)

As the tenth prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving mainly focuses on the storyline that peppermint Patty invites herself and her friends over to Charlie Brown's for Thanksgiving, and with Linus, Snoopy, and Woodstock, he attempts to throw together a Thanksgiving dinner. This animated Emmy-winner is sure a Thanksgiving classic for both the parents and children.

More Thanksgiving-themed iTunes Movies/Episodes for Thanksgiving 2014

There are also some other Thanksgiving-related comedies and dramas on iTunes that are worth watching in this Thanksgiving Day with family and friends.

• Love At the Thanksgiving Day Parade (2012)
• An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving(2008)
• A Family Thanksgiving (2010)
• Where the Bears Are Thanksgiving Special(2013)
• New Girl, Season 1 (2011)
• Glee, Season 4 (2013)
• Family Guy (2009)

Stream DRM-ed Thanksgiving Movies from iTunes to HDTV

If you have already purchased or rented those popular Thanksgiving movies from iTunes, you may need to sync them to your HDTV for watching with the whole family in the Turkey Day. But streaming movies from iTunes is not as easy as you can imagine. You would probably be told that iTunes movies and TV shows are not supported by your HDTV system while you are trying to transferring the Thanksgiving movies from iTunes to television. That's because all iTunes movies are encrypted with Apple's DRM technology which doesn't allow you to play any iTunes movies on non-Apple-approved devices. So if that's your case and you don't want to pay an extra fee to buy an Apple TV in order to stream the iTunes movies to HDTV, TunesKit iTunes DRM Video Converter (Mac & Windows) could get you out of the trap by easily removing the FairPlay DRM protection from both rented and purchased iTunes movies, TV episodes and music videos while converting the DRM'd M4V files to non-DRM MP4 supported by most of the existing media players, including any model of HDTV with 100% original image quality(even 1080p HD movies), audio tracks(Dolby 5.1 surround sound) and multi-language subtitles kept.

You can simply follow the page: How to Watch iTunes Movie Rentals and Purchases on HDTV to learn the tutorial of streaming Thanksgiving movies from iTunes to HDTV or directly download the proper version of TunesKit iTunes DRM Remover as below to test it by yourself now.

Matt Smith is an amateur writer engaged in Tuneskit in 2013. He is a movie lover who write a lot of movie reviews for many websites and blogs.