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1. Hatfields & McCoys (2012)
directed by Kevin Reynolds
featuring Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton, Tom Berenger, Powers Boothe, Mare Winningham
This miniseries from cable's History Channel travels back to the second half of the 19th century for an epic-length, dramatic evocation of one of ... More
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2. Lonesome Dove (1989)
directed by Simon Wincer
featuring Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Rick Schroder, Robert Urich, Diane Lane, Danny Glover, Anjelica Huston
This six-hour miniseries, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Larry McMurtry, revitalized both the miniseries and Western genres, both of ... More
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3. Rio Bravo (1959)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan
Set in Texas during the late 1860s, Rio Bravo is a story of men (and women) and a town under siege. Presidio County Sheriff John T. Chance (John ... More
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4. True Grit (2010)
directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
featuring Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, Barry Pepper
Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) joins an aging U.S. marshal (Jeff Bridges) and another lawman (Matt Damon) in tracking her father's ... More
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5. Big Jake (1971)
directed by George Sherman
featuring John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum
When his grandson (played by real-life son Ethan Wayne) is kidnapped by scurrilous baddie Richard Boone, Big Jake (John Wayne) sets out to deliver ... More
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6. Streets of Laredo (1995)
directed by Joseph Sargent
featuring James Garner, Alexis Cruz, Sam Shepard, Sissy Spacek
This miniseries follows the original Lonesome Dove miniseries, and both are based on the characters created by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry ... More
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7. The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
directed by Henry Hathaway
featuring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Michael Anderson, Jr., Earl Holliman
Henry Hathaway directs the 1965 psychological Western The Sons of Katie Elder. Four sons reunite in their Texas hometown to attend their mother's ... More
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8. Dead Man's Walk (1996)
directed by Yves Simoneau
Author Larry McMurtry revisits Gus and Woodrow, the aging lawmen from his bestselling Western novel Lonesome Dove, in their early days as young men ... More
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9. The Shadow Riders (1982)
directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
featuring Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Katharine Ross, Ben Johnson, Geoffrey Lewis
In this made-for-TV movie, two brothers who battled on opposing sides of the Civil War return home at the end of the war to discover that their ... More
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10. Appaloosa (2008)
directed by Ed Harris
featuring Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Timothy Spall, Lance Henriksen
Upon drifting into a troubled Western outpost and discovering that the helpless locals are being terrorized by a ruthless rancher and his brutish ... More
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11. Open Range (2003)
directed by Kevin Costner
featuring Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Michael Jeter
Kevin Costner stars in and directs the Western Open Range. Robert Duvall stars as Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer who free-grazes cattle. He and ... More
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12. Chisum (1970)
directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
featuring John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Ben Johnson, Glenn Corbett
John Wayne toplines this biography of the cattle owner John Simpson Chisum, a controversial figure who was the most powerful man in New Mexico during ... More
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13. The Sacketts (1979)
directed by Robert J. Totten
The made-for-television western The Sacketts combines the plotlines from two seperate Louis L'Amour novels, The Daybreakers and The Sacketts. In this ... More
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14. Westward the Women (1951)
directed by William Wellman
featuring Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson, John McIntire, Henry Nakamura, Julie Bishop
Though Frank Capra wrote the original story treatment for MGM's Westward the Women, he was too busy to direct the film, and handed the reigns instead ... More
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15. Comanche Moon (2008)
directed by Simon Wincer
featuring Val Kilmer, Steve Zahn, Linda Cardellini, Rachel Griffiths, Karl Urban, Elizabeth Banks
This epic western starring Val Kilmer, Steve Zahn, Linda Cardellini, and Rachel Griffiths was adapted from Larry McMurtry's sprawling novel of the ... More
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16. Stagecoach (1939)
directed by John Ford
featuring Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, Thomas Mitchell, George Bancroft, John Carradine
Although there were Westerns before it, Stagecoach quickly became a template for all movie Westerns to come. Director John Ford combined action, ... More
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17. The Quick and the Dead (1987)
directed by Robert Day
featuring Sam Elliott, Tom Conti, Kate Capshaw, Kenny Morrison, Matt Clark
Based on a novel by Louis L'Amour, this made-for-HBO western stars Sam Elliott, an enigmatic gunslinger who comes to the aid of a family traveling ... More
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18. The Three Godfathers (1948)
directed by John Ford
featuring John Wayne, Harry Carey, Jr., Ward Bond, Mae Marsh
John Ford had already directed one of the three previous film versions of Peter Kyne's novel under the title Marked Men (1919) with his mentor Harry ... More
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19. Rooster Cogburn (1975)
directed by Stuart Millar
featuring John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Jordan, John McIntire
John Wayne returned to the role that won him an Oscar in this sequel to the western classic True Grit. Rooster Cogburn (Wayne) has once again been ... More
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20. Gunsmoke: Season 02 (1956)
Season Two of Gunsmoke introduces the series' now-legendary opening sequence, as Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) shoots it out on the deserted ... More
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21. The Train Robbers (1973)
directed by Burt Kennedy
featuring John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Christopher George
The action never stops in this western, which has a surprise ending. Ann-Margret stars as Mrs. Lowe, a widow who wishes to recover some gold stolen ... More
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22. Gunsmoke: Season 01 (1955)
The original radio version of Gunsmoke was in its third year on the air when the TV version made its CBS network bow on September 10, 1955. Replacing ... More
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23. Gunsmoke: Season 04 (1958)
Having ended its third season as America's top-rated TV series, Gunsmoke managed to retain that title throughout Season Four, not only because of its ... More
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24. Fort Apache (1948)
directed by John Ford
featuring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Ward Bond, John Agar, Dick Foran, Pedro Armendáriz
The first of John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", Fort Apache stars John Wayne as captain Kirby York and Henry Fonda as Custer clone Lt. Col. Owen Thursday ... More
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25. Broken Arrow (1950)
directed by Delmer Daves
featuring James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Basil Ruysdael, Will Geer
Indian scout Tom Jeffords (James Stewart) is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns (through an ... More
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