Is Home Alone one of your must-watch holiday films? Have you ever argued with a friend over whether Die Hard is really a Christmas movie? If so, then the Netflix series The Movies That Made Us is for you. This new series from the folks that brought you The Toys That Made Us looks at the stories behind four beloved films: Home Alone, Die Hard, Dirty Dancing, and Ghostbusters. Each episode features interviews with key players involved in each movie, including actors like Dan Aykroyd and Daniel Stern and directors Ivan Reitman and Chris Columbus. Layered between the goofy soundtrack, and jokey-chipper narration from Donald Ian Black, we get information about the origins of each movie, some of the bumps and detours the projects took before any film was exposed, and the impact each hit had when it came out. Like its toy-related cousin show, The Movies That Made Us feels like a light, surfacey, latter-day style documentary designed to make old millennials nostalgic for the movies they watched as kids. But, because Volk-Weiss gets some pretty good interviews, insights into the making and history of the blockbusters come out that go beyond the trivia you might see on the Wikipedia page. You may know everything about the movies profiled in The Movies That Made Us. But we bet you’ll come away from each episode with a few more tidbits you didn’t know before.

It’s a yes from us!