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1	Dances with Wolves (1990) more movies like this directed by Kevin Costner featuring Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney Grant, Floyd Red Crow Westerman A historical drama about the relationship between a Civil War soldier and a band of Sioux Indians, Kevin Costner's directorial debut was also a surprisingly popular hit, considering its length, period setting, and often somber tone. The film opens on a particularly dark note, as melancholy Union lieutenant John W. Dunbar attempts to kill himself ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
2	The Magnificent Seven (1960) more movies like this directed by John Sturges featuring Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai (1954) is westernized as The Magnificent Seven. Yul Brynner plays Chris, a mercenary hired to protect a Mexican farming village from its annual invasion by bandit Calvera (Eli Wallach). As Elmer Bernstein's unforgettable theme music (later immortalized as the "Marlboro Man" leitmotif) blasts ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95!
3	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) more movies like this directed by Sergio Leone featuring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffré, Rada Rassimov, Mario Brega In the last and the best installment of his so-called "Dollars" trilogy of Sergio Leone-directed "spaghetti westerns," Clint Eastwood reprised the role of a taciturn, enigmatic loner. Here he searches for a cache of stolen gold against rivals the Bad (Lee Van Cleef), a ruthless bounty hunter, and the Ugly (Eli Wallach), a Mexican bandit. Though ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95!
4	The Searchers (1956) more movies like this directed by John Ford featuring John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood If John Ford is the greatest Western director, The Searchers is arguably his greatest film, at once a grand outdoor spectacle like such Ford classics as She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Rio Grande (1950) and a film about one man's troubling moral codes, a big-screen adventure of the 1950s that anticipated the complex themes and characters that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.57!
5	The Big Trail (1930) more movies like this directed by Raoul Walsh featuring John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall, Tyrone Power, Sr. The first "epic" western of the talkie era, The Big Trail is motivated by a hero's search for the murderer of his father. Twenty-three-year-old John Wayne, hitherto limited to bit parts, was thrust into the difficult leading role, a young mountaineer put in charge of a huge California-bound wagon train. Over the next several months, Wayne and his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.95!
6	Little Big Man (1970) more movies like this directed by Arthur Penn featuring Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan, Chief Dan George Recounting how the West was won through the eyes of a white man raised as a Native American, Arthur Penn's 1970 adaptation of Thomas Berger's satirical novel was a comic yet stinging allegory about the bloody results of American imperialism. As a misguided 20th-century historian listens, 121-year-old Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) narrates the story ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.67!
7	Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) more movies like this directed by Sergio Leone featuring Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Jr., Gabriele Ferzetti In Sergio Leone's epic Western, shot partly in Monument Valley, a revenge story becomes an epic contemplation of the Western past. To get his hands on prime railroad land in Sweetwater, crippled railroad baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) hires killers, led by blue-eyed sadist Frank (Henry Fonda), who wipe out property owner Brett McBain (Frank ... see all copies from $3.24! new only from $6.50!
8	Red River (1948) more movies like this directed by Howard Hawks featuring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray John Wayne -- showing off a darker side to his screen persona than we'd previously seen -- portrays Thomas Dunson, a frontiersman who, with his longtime partner Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan), leaves abandons a westbound wagon train in 1851 to make his future as a rancher in Texas. Doing so forces him to abandon Fen (Colleen Gray), his fiancee -- ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95!
9	The Big Country (1958) more movies like this directed by William Wyler featuring Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives In The Big Country Gregory Peck plays a seafaring man who heads west to marry Carroll Baker, the daughter of rancher Charles Bickford. Bickford is currently embroiled in a water-rights feud with covetous Burl Ives, so both he and his daughter are hoping that Peck can take care of himself. But Peck, who doesn't belief in fisticuffs, appears to be a ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $11.05!
10	Wyatt Earp (1994) more movies like this directed by Lawrence Kasdan featuring Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Jeff Fahey, Mark Harmon Directed by Lawrence Kasdan, this epic version of the legendary western sheriff-gunslinger's life story stars Kevin Costner as Earp, who lived from 1848 to 1929. Growing up on a farm in Iowa, Earp tries to run away to join the Union Army in the Civil War, but he is turned away because of his youth. Instead, he studies law and marries Urilla ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.51!
11 view cover	The Alamo (2004) more movies like this directed by John Lee Hancock featuring Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson, Jordi Mollà, Emilio Echeverria Re-teaming Dennis Quaid with John Lee Hancock, the director of 2002's The Rookie, The Alamo retells the story of the historic 1836 battle in the Texan War of Independence. Facing 4,000 Mexican troops, 186 Texan soldiers and volunteers -- including William Travis (Patrick Wilson), Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton), and Jim Bowie (Jason Patric) -- ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.91!
12 view cover	Heaven's Gate (1981) more movies like this directed by Michael Cimino featuring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, John Hurt A notorious artistic and financial failure, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate was blamed for critically wounding the movie Western and definitively ushering out the 1970s Hollywood New Wave of young, brash, independent filmmakers. Taking a revisionist, post-Vietnam view of American imperialism, Cimino used the historical Johnson County War incident ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.85!
13 view cover	Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) more movies like this directed by Walter Hill featuring Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Wes Studi, Matt Damon Walter Hill directs John Milius's script (co-written by Larry Gross) depicting a revisionist perspective on the "Geronimo Campaign" and how Geronimo, with 34 men, managed to elude 5000 U.S. cavalry men between 1885 and 1886 before his surrender at the Canyon of the Skeletons in September 1886. The film centers upon Charles Gatewood (Jason Patric), ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00!
14 view cover	Broken Trail (2006) more movies like this directed by Walter Hill featuring Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church, Greta Scacchi Sideways star Thomas Hayden Church appears alongside Academy Award-winner Robert Duvall in a dramatic mini-series shot in the classic western tradition. The year is 1897. As Print Ritter (Duvall) and his estranged nephew Tom Harte (Church) travel the slow road to reconciliation, they reluctantly find themselves forced to care for five abused and ... see all copies from $14.88! new only from $14.88!
15 view cover	True Women (1997) more movies like this directed by Karen Arthur featuring Dana Delany, Annabeth Gish, Angelina Jolie Based on a true story, this Civil War-era epic centers on the exploits of Sarah Ashby McClure (Dana Delany) and her sister Euphemia (Annabeth Gish) as they try to make their way on the male-dominated West Texas plains. When their home is threatened by Mexican forces and Native American warriors, the sisters lead their family and friends to safety. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00!
16 view cover	Duel in the Sun (1946) more movies like this directed by King Vidor featuring Griff Barnett, Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Charles Bickford, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore, Sidney Blackmer, Harry Carey, Lillian Gish In David O. Selznick's Duel in the Sun, Jennifer Jones stars as half-breed Pearl Chavez, whom everyone has tagged as a "bad girl" foredoomed to an unhappy end. She is taken into the home of wealthy, greedy rancher McCanles (Lionel Barrymore) and his kindly wife Laura Belle (Lillian Gish), who'd once been the sweetheart of Pearl's recently executed ... see all copies from $4.92! new only from $7.00!
17 view cover	The Alamo (1960) more movies like this directed by John Wayne featuring John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Richard Boone John Wayne's directorial debut The Alamo is set in 1836: Wayne plays Col. Davy Crockett, who, together with Colonels Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) and William Travis (Laurence Harvey) and 184 hardy Americans and Texicans, defends the Alamo mission against the troops of Mexican general Santa Ana. There's a lot of macho byplay before the actual attack ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.98!
18 view cover	How the West Was Won (1962) more movies like this directed by George Marshall, Henry Hathaway, John Ford featuring James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, Richard Widmark, George Peppard, Karl Malden, John Wayne Filmed in panoramic Cinerama, this star-studded, epic Western adventure is a true cinematic classic. Three legendary directors (Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall) combine their skills to tell the story of three families and their travels from the Erie Canal to California between 1839 and 1889. Spencer Tracy narrates the film, which ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.75!
19 view cover	Cheyenne Autumn (1964) more movies like this directed by John Ford featuring Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden John Ford's last western film, Cheyenne Autumn was allegedly produced to compensate for the hundreds of Native Americans who had bitten the dust in Ford's earlier films (that was the director's story, anyway). Set in 1887, the film recounts the defiant migration of 300 Cheyennes from their reservation in Oklahoma territory to their original home ... see all copies from $12.34! new only from $14.90!
20 view cover	Johnson County War (2002) more movies like this directed by Dave Cass featuring Tom Berenger, Luke Perry, Michelle Forbes, Adam Storke, Burt Reynolds The backdrop for this epic Western, which aired in August 2002 on the Hallmark Channel, will be familiar to fans of the genre and students of Western history. The Johnson County War took place in northern Wyoming in April 1892, growing out of the familiar story of big-money ranchers who suspected homesteader neighbors of rustling. Screenwriters ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.21!
21 view cover	Cimarron (1930) more movies like this directed by Wesley Ruggles featuring Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Nance O'Neil, William Collier, Jr. Cimarron was the first Western to win the Oscar for Best Picture--and, until Dances with Wolves in 1990, the only one. The film begins on April 22, 1889, the opening day of the great Oklahoma Land Rush on the Cherokee Strip. Boisterous Yancey Cravat (Richard Dix) is cheated out of his land claim by the devious Dixie Lee (Estelle Taylor). Instead ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95!
22 view cover	Union Pacific (1939) more movies like this directed by Cecil B. DeMille featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Lynne Overman Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The real-life spectacle is occasionally interrupted by the fictional adventures of railroad overseer Joel McCrea, postmistress Barbara Stanwyck (with an incredible Irish brogue), and McCrea's best pal Robert Preston. Unfortunately ... see all copies from $12.99!
23 view cover	The Plainsman (1937) more movies like this directed by Cecil B. DeMille featuring Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Helen Burgess One is immediately aware that The Plainsman is a Cecil B. DeMille production in the opening scene, wherein President Abraham Lincoln (Frank McGlynn Sr.), on the verge of signing crucial legislation which will determine the future of the American West, is dragged away from his Cabinet by a scolding Mrs. Lincoln (Leila McIntyre), who informs her ... see all copies from $3.13! new only from $11.03!
24 view cover	Arizona (1940) more movies like this directed by Wesley Ruggles featuring William Holden, Jean Arthur, Warren William, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey Wesley Ruggles's Arizona is an epic western set in an impoverished Arizona outpost. It tells the story of the feisty, no-nonsense Phoebe Titus (Jean Arthur). Wearing leather breeches, with a bullwhip and gun, she can out-shoot and out-fight nearly every bad hombre in town, and manages to transform the down-and-out community into Tuscon, one of the ... see all copies from $6.89!
25 view cover	The Iron Horse (1924) more movies like this directed by John Ford featuring George O'Brien, Winston Miller, Madge Bellamy, Peggy Cartwright, Charles Edward Bull, Cyril Chadwick, James Gordon, Fred Kohler John Ford directed this epic-scale silent western, which was one of his first major successes and was hugely influential on outdoor films that followed. David Brandon (James Gordon) is a surveyor in the Old West who dreams that one day the entire North American continent will be linked by railroads. However, to make this dream a reality, a clear ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!

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