Westerns Films
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Selection of Greatest Westerns Films:
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Greatest Early Westerns Films:
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
The Squaw Man (1914)
Truthful Tulliver (1916)
The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917)
The Covered Wagon (1923)
The Iron Horse (1924)
Riders of the Purple Sage (1925)
Tumbleweeds (1925)
In Old Arizona (1928)
The Virginian (1929)
The Big Trail (1930)
Montana Moon (1930)
Viva Villa! (1934)
Annie Oakley (1935)
Tumblin' Tumbleweeds (1935)
The Plainsman (1936)
Rhythm of the Saddle (1938)
Allegheny Uprising (1939)
Dodge City (1939)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Jesse James (1939)
Stagecoach (1939)
Union Pacific (1939)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
Northwest Passage (1940)
The Return of Frank James (1940)
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Virginia City (1940)
The Westerner (1940)
They Died With Their Boots On (1941)
Western Union (1941)
King of the Cowboys (1943)
The Outlaw (1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Duel in the Sun (1946)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
The Overlanders (1946, Australia/UK)
Home in Oklahoma (1947)
Pursued (1947)
The Paleface (1948)
Red River (1948)
Broken Arrow (1950)
The Gunfighter (1950)
Stars in My Crown (1950)
Winchester '73 (1950)
Bend of the River (1952)
The Big Sky (1952)
The Lusty Men (1952)
Rancho Notorious (1952)
Hondo (1953)
The Naked Spur (1953)
Pony Express (1953)
Shane (1953)
Broken Lance (1954)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Vera Cruz (1954)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
The Far Country (1955)
The Man From Laramie (1955)
The Searchers (1956)
Seven Men From Now (1956)
Forty Guns (1957)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Run of the Arrow (1957)
The Tall T (1957)
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
The Big Country (1958)
Man of the West (1958)
Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
Last Train From Gun Hill (1959)
Ride Lonesome (1959)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Greatest John Ford Westerns Films:
* John Ford's "Cavalry" trilogy: Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Rio Grande (1950)
Wagonmaster (1950)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Greatest Recent Westerns Films:
The Alamo (1960)
The Magnificent Seven (1960) (sequels in 1966, 1969, 1972, and remake in 2016)
North to Alaska (1960)
The Misfits (1961)
How the West Was Won (1962)
Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
Ride the High Country (1962)
McLintock! (1963)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964, Sp./It.) (1st in Sergio Leone's Man-With-No-Name "spaghetti western" trilogy)
Cat Ballou (1965)
For a Few Dollars More (1965, Sp./It.) (2nd in trilogy)
Major Dundee (1965)
Shenandoah (1965)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966, Sp./It.) (3rd in trilogy)
The Professionals (1966)
El Dorado (1967)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, It.)
Will Penny (1968)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
Little Big Man (1970)
A Man Called Horse (1970) (sequels in 1976 and 1983)
Rio Lobo (1970)
Big Jake (1971)
Hannie Caulder (1971)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Cowboys (1972)
The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid (1972)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Ulzana's Raid (1972)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians (or Sitting Bull's History Lesson) (1976)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
The Electric Horseman (1979)
Heaven's Gate (1980)
The Long Riders (1980)
Pale Rider (1985)
Silverado (1985)
Young Guns (1988)
Lonesome Dove (1989) - TV miniseries
Back to the Future, Part III (1990)
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Grim Prairie Tales (1990)
City Slickers (1991)
Unforgiven (1992)
The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
Posse (1993)
Tombstone (1993)
Bad Girls (1994)
Maverick (1994)
Wyatt Earp (1994)
The Wild Wild West (1999)
Shanghai Noon (2000)
Open Range (2003)
Hidalgo (2004)
The Proposition (2005, Australia)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
The Hateful Eight (2015)
The Revenant (2015)
Hell or High Water (2016)
The Magnificent Seven (2016)