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1. Dances with Wolves (1990)
PG-13 | 181 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.
Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant
Votes: 290,994 | Gross: $184.21M
2. Cold Mountain (2003)
R | 154 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.
Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins
Votes: 156,210 | Gross: $95.64M
3. The Searchers (1956)
Passed | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
Votes: 96,419
4. The Lone Ranger (2013)
PG-13 | 150 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.
Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 244,624 | Gross: $89.30M
5. How the West Was Won (1962)
G | 164 min | Adventure, War, Western
A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.
Directors: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe | Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda
Votes: 23,356 | Gross: $46.50M
6. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
PG | 135 min | Drama, Western
Missouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George, Bill McKinney
Votes: 79,925 | Gross: $31.80M
7. Seraphim Falls (2006)
R | 115 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
After the end of the American Civil War, a former Confederate colonel hunts down a former Yankee officer with whom he has a grudge.
Director: David Von Ancken | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Anjelica Huston, Michael Wincott
Votes: 34,565 | Gross: $0.42M
8. The Young Riders (1989–1992)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Romance, Western
The adventures of the riders of the Pony Express.
Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Josh Brolin, Ty Miller, Gregg Rainwater
Votes: 2,487
9. News of the World (2020)
PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl taken by the Kiowa people years ago to her aunt and uncle against her will. They travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search for a place that either can call home.
Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor, Travis Johnson
Votes: 95,723
10. Red River (1948)
Passed | 133 min | Drama, Western
Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.
Directors: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson | Stars: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan
Votes: 34,440
11. How the West Was Won (1976–1979)
16+ | Drama, Western
The Macahans, a family from Virginia, headed by Zeb Macahan, travel across the country to pioneer a new land and a new home in the American West.
Stars: James Arness, Bruce Boxleitner, Kathryn Holcomb, William Kirby Cullen
Votes: 2,573
12. American Outlaws (2001)
PG-13 | 94 min | Action, Western
5 Southern friends return home when the war ends 1865. But Yankee soldiers and Pinkerton are busy helping a railroad baron grab land from farmers along the planned railroad west. The 5 friends fight back.
Director: Les Mayfield | Stars: Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, Ali Larter, Gabriel Macht
Votes: 17,535 | Gross: $13.26M
13. Wild Bill (1995)
R | 98 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The early career of legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickock is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, John Hurt, Diane Lane
Votes: 7,891 | Gross: $2.17M
14. Major Dundee (1965)
PG-13 | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In 1864, due to frequent Apache raids from Mexico into the U.S., a Union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the Apache, using a mixed army of Union troops, Confederate POWs, civilian mercenaries, and scouts.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn
Votes: 8,829 | Gross: $0.01M
15. Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Western
During the Civil War, a group of Confederates escapes from the Union POW camp at Fort Bravo but has to contend with the desert, the Mescalero Apaches and the pursuing Union troops.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe, William Demarest
Votes: 3,146 | Gross: $1.45M
16. The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
PG | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The sole surviving Texas Ranger (Klinton Spilsbury) of an ambush arranged by outlaw leader Major Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish (Christopher Lloyd) returns to fight back as a great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger.
Director: William A. Fraker | Stars: Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse, Christopher Lloyd, Matt Clark
Votes: 2,528 | Gross: $12.62M
17. The Claim (2000)
R | 120 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A prospector who sold his wife and infant daughter in exchange for a mining claim, tries desperately to win them back as he helps to build the Pacific Railroad with a group of pioneer friends.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Wes Bentley, Peter Mullan, Ron Anderson, Marty Antonini
Votes: 6,620 | Gross: $0.67M
18. Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III (1994)
91 min | Drama, History, Romance
The Civil War has just ended, but things in the country aren't much better, especially in the south.
Stars: Philip Casnoff, Kyle Chandler, Cathy Lee Crosby, Lesley-Anne Down
Votes: 2,877
19. The Naked Spur (1953)
Passed | 91 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker
Votes: 12,671
20. Buck and the Preacher (1972)
GP | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
Directors: Sidney Poitier, Joseph Sargent | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 2,694 | Gross: $3.03M
21. Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Drama, Romance, Western
In 1868 Kansas, a Lakota Sioux warrior stubbornly refuses to free the 2 white women he kidnapped, triggering a war between his tribe and General Custer's rescuing troops.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Janine Turner, Jean Louisa Kelly, Patrick Bergin, William Shockley
Votes: 1,094
22. Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, War, Western
In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan
Votes: 4,161
23. The New Land (1972)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Western
A Swedish immigrant family struggle to establish a new life for themselves in the forest of Minnesota in the mid 19th Century.
Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Pierre Lindstedt
Votes: 5,289
24. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 110 min | Drama, History
Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Director: John Korty | Stars: Cicely Tyson, Eric Brown, Richard Dysart, Joel Fluellen
Votes: 2,506
25. Black Fox (1995 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 92 min | Romance, Western
A former slave affects peace between Native American tribes and homesteaders in 1860s around western Texas.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Raoul Max Trujillo, Tony Todd, Janet Bailey
Votes: 483
26. Red River (1988 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 96 min | Drama, Western
Thomas Dunson is a rancher at odds with his adopted son.
Director: Richard Michaels | Stars: James Arness, Bruce Boxleitner, Gregory Harrison, Ray Walston
Votes: 441
27. Rocky Mountain (1950)
Passed | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In California during the Civil War, a Confederate patrol and a Union troop must set their differences aside in order to survive a Shoshone attack.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Scott Forbes, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Votes: 1,322
28. Savage Sam (1963)
Approved | 103 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Travis, Arliss, and Lisbeth are captured by Apaches while Old Yeller's son, Sam, tracks their trail.
Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Brian Keith, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Dewey Martin
Votes: 1,177 | Gross: $6.54M
29. Western Union (1941)
Passed | 95 min | History, Western
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore
Votes: 3,282
30. Treasure of Matecumbe (1976)
G | 117 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
In 1869 Kentucky, a young boy and his friends set out to find a treasure chest hidden by his late father in the Florida Everglades during the Civil War.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Robert Foxworth, Joan Hackett, Peter Ustinov, Vic Morrow
Votes: 989
31. Winnetou & Old Shatterhand (2016)
117 min | Drama, Western
Apache chief Winnetou forms a friendship with a German immigrant rail road engineer Karl May, named afterwards Old Shatterhand.
Director: Philipp Stölzl | Stars: Nik Xhelilaj, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Jürgen Vogel, Milan Peschel
Votes: 1,018
32. 40 Guns to Apache Pass (1967)
Approved | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The Apaches are on the warpath and the Army must defeat them. Murphy's mission is to get a shipment of rifles, but they're stolen by greedy white traders with the help of mutinous soldiers.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Audie Murphy, Michael Burns, Kenneth Tobey, Laraine Stephens
Votes: 1,183
33. Tomahawk (1951)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Western
In 1866 Wyoming, a frontier scout tries to prevent a war between the Sioux and the U.S. after the Army builds a road and a fort on territory previously ceded to the Sioux by treaty.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Van Heflin, Yvonne De Carlo, Alex Nicol, Preston Foster
Votes: 1,047
34. The Shadow of Chikara (1977)
PG | 114 min | Horror, Western
Two former Confederate captains set out to recover diamonds hidden in the mountains of Arkansas but a native spirit named Chikara is said to protect the sacred mountains against intruders.
Director: Earl E. Smith | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Sondra Locke, Ted Neeley, Joy N. Houck Jr.
Votes: 463
35. The Savage (1952)
Passed | 95 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A white boy raised by the Sioux must choose sides when the Sioux threaten to go to war against the Whites.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Charlton Heston, Susan Morrow, Peter Hansen, Joan Taylor
Votes: 684
36. The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Framed for murder during the Civil War, Gil Kyle's only alibi is Confederate agent Candace Bronson who he must track down in dangerous territory filled with foes.
Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Glenn Ford, Edmond O'Brien, Rhonda Fleming, Alan Reed
Votes: 391
37. Caddie Woodlawn (1989)
TV-G | 104 min | Adventure, Family
The exciting adventures of an 11-year-old tomboy growing up in the Wisconsin frontier of the 1860s. Based on the children's book.
Director: Giles Walker | Stars: Melissa Clayton, Comet, Victor DiMattia, Aron Eisenberg
Votes: 109
38. New Mexico (1951)
Approved | 76 min | Drama, Western
A cavalry captain has great difficulty keeping the peace between his tyrannical colonel and an Indian chief bent on revenge.
Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Lew Ayres, Marilyn Maxwell, Andy Devine, Robert Hutton
Votes: 215
39. Haunted (1977)
R | 82 min | Horror
In Arizona during the Civil War, a woman is accused of witchcraft, tied to a horse, and left to die in the desert. One hundred years later, the descendants of the woman's accusers start ... See full summary »
Director: Alessandro De Gaetano | Stars: Aldo Ray, Virginia Mayo, Ann Michelle, Jim Negele
Votes: 228
40. Red Mountain (1951)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Western
In 1865 Confederate Capt. Sherwood is heading to Colorado where Confederate Gen. Quantrill is stirring up rebellion using various Indian Nations.
Directors: William Dieterle, John Farrow | Stars: Alan Ladd, Lizabeth Scott, Arthur Kennedy, John Ireland
Votes: 653
41. Gun Fever (1958)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Western
Lucas (Stevens) and his partner Simon (John Lupton) set about to capture the renegade white man who caused the deaths of Lucas' parents in an Indian raid.
Director: Mark Stevens | Stars: Mark Stevens, John Lupton, Larry Storch, Maureen Hingert
Votes: 215
42. Legend of the Phantom Rider (2002)
R | 100 min | Action, Western, Fantasy
Two ancient entities reincarnated through the centuries face off time and again for an innocent soul.
Director: Alex Erkiletian | Stars: Denise Crosby, Robert McRay, Stefan Gierasch, Zen Gesner
Votes: 233
43. Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion (1977 TV Movie)
85 min | Drama, Western
A teenage boy gets a job as a Pony Express rider in the Nebraska Territory not long before the Civil War breaks out.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: Leif Garrett, Milo O'Shea, Bibi Besch, John Quade
Votes: 86
44. The Raiders (1963)
Approved | 75 min | Western
Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad.
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Brian Keith, Robert Culp, Judi Meredith, Jim McMullan
Votes: 229
45. Red Runs the River (1963)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, History, War
This is the story of two wars - one in the heart of General Richard Stoddard Ewell and the other on the battlefields of Bull Run and Manassas. The film traces the influence of General "... See full summary »
Director: Katherine Stenholm | Stars: Bob Jones Jr., Bob Jones III, Jack Buttram, Lonnie Iglesias
Votes: 39
46. Ghost Treasure (1941)
Approved | 10 min | Short
Rumors of a rich vein of gold embedded in rose quartz persist for Death Valley. Here are three stories from the nineteenth century: in 1843, Mariano Arguello and three other Spanish ... See full summary »
Director: Will Jason | Stars: Carey Wilson, Roman Bohnen, Henry Brandon, Manuel París
Votes: 68
47. Gag and Baggage (1952)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Family
This "depicts" the development of the American railroad, in cartoon (kartune) form from 1829 into the 1950s. When it gets to the streamliner era, they bring out the bouncing-ball which ... See full summary »
Directors: Izzy Sparber, Dave Tendlar | Stars: Jackson Beck, Jack Mercer
Votes: 15
48. The Glory Trail (1936)
Passed | 65 min | Western
It's just after the Civil War and Captain Morgan and his confederate soldiers are establishing a town on the Bozeman trail. Colonel Strong and his union men are at the nearby fort. Things ... See full summary »
Director: Lynn Shores | Stars: Tom Keene, Joan Barclay, James Bush, Frank Melton
Votes: 28
49. Native Americans of the Civil War (2006)
75 min | Documentary, History, War
Director: Stan Armstrong
50. Mythos Winnetou (2016 TV Movie)
Documentary
Stars: Mario Adorf, Wolfgang Bahro, Lex Barker, Pierre Brice
Votes: 10