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In the UK The Great Escape (1963) has become synonymous with Christmas through a mixture of nostalgia, seasonal hope and just plain repetition in the broadcast schedules:
https://www.eckleburg.org/the-big-x-why-the-great-escape-still-captures-a-particularly-british-christmas/