WESTERNS FILMS

Selection of Greatest Westerns Films:

See also AFI's 10 Top 10 - The Top 10 Western Films
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 (1928/9)
The Virginian (1929)
The Big Trail (1930)
Montana Moon (1930)
Cimarron (1931)
Viva Villa! (1934)
Annie Oakley (1935)
Tumblin' Tumbleweeds (1935)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
The Plainsman (1936)
Rhythm of the Saddle (1938)
Allegheny Uprising (1939)
Destry Rides Again (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)
Billy the Kid (1941)
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)
Home in Oklahoma (1947)
Pursued (1947)
Red River (1948)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Broken Arrow (1950)
The Gunfighter (1950)
Winchester '73 (1950)
Bend of the River (1952)
The Big Sky (1952)
High Noon (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)
Giant (1956)
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)
Ride Lonesome (1959)
Rio Bravo (1959)
 
Greatest John Ford Westerns Films:
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Stagecoach (1939)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Fort Apache (1948)*
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)*
Rio Grande (1950)*
Wagonmaster (1950)
The Searchers (1956)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
  * John Ford's "Cavalry" trilogy
 
Greatest Recent Westerns Films:
The Alamo (1960)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Misfits (1961)
How the West Was Won (1962)
Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Ride the High Country (1962)
Hud (1963)
McLintock! (1963)
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964, Sp./It.) (1st in Sergio Leone's "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)
Hombre (1967)
Will Penny (1968)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1969, It.)
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
True Grit (1969)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Little Big Man (1970)
A Man Called Horse (1970)
Rio Lobo (1970)
Big Jake (1971)
Hannie Caulder (1971)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Cowboys (1972)
The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid (1972)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Ulzana's Raid (1972)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
Westworld (1973)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians (or Sitting Bull's History Lesson) (1976)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
The Shootist (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)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
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 Quick and the Dead (1995)
Dead Man (1996)
Lone Star (1996)
The Wild Wild West (1999)
Shanghai Noon (2000)
Open Range (2003)
The Missing (2003)
The Alamo (2004)
Hidalgo (2004)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
3:10 To Yuma (2007)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

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