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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: 291,783 | Gross: $184.21M

2. The Unforgiven (1960)

Approved | 125 min | Drama, Romance, Western

The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, John Saxon

Votes: 9,785

3. Fort Apache (1948)

Passed | 128 min | Drama, Western

At Fort Apache, an honorable and veteran war captain finds conflict when his regime is placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel with no respect for the local Indian tribe.

Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendáriz

Votes: 19,759

4. The Scalphunters (1968)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Western

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.

Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas, Ossie Davis

Votes: 4,430

5. 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: 3,156 | Gross: $1.45M

6. 7 Men from Now (1956)

Approved | 78 min | Western

A former sheriff blames himself for his wife's death during a Wells Fargo robbery and vows to track down and kill the seven men responsible.

Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin, Walter Reed

Votes: 6,020

7. Comanche Station (1960)

Approved | 73 min | Drama, Western

A man saves a woman who had been kidnapped by Comanches, then struggles to get both of them home alive.

Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins, Skip Homeier

Votes: 4,444

8. Arrow in the Dust (1954)

Approved | 79 min | Western

A cavalry deserter risks his life to warn and protect a wagon train from an impending Indian attack.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Keith Larsen, Tom Tully

Votes: 511

9. Against a Crooked Sky (1975)

G | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

When Charlotte Sutter is kidnapped by Apaches, her brother Sam, aided by an old drunk prospector, goes searching for her.

Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Richard Boone, Stewart Petersen, Henry Wilcoxon, Clint Ritchie

Votes: 754

10. A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Western

In 1876 Colorado, the Tomahawk and Western Railroad is expanding through the Rockies but some stagecoach operators, fearing a loss of revenue, plan to sabotage the railroad.

Director: Richard Sale | Stars: Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan

Votes: 770

11. Arizona (1940)

Passed | 125 min | Drama, Western

In Tucson of the 1860s, a pioneer woman struggles to succeed in the freight and cattle business while at risk at the hands of corrupt and violent local businessmen and rampaging Indians.

Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William, Porter Hall

Votes: 1,501

12. The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967)

Approved | 87 min | Western

Near the ending days of the Civil War, a group of Confederacy spies traveling under guises of musicians are tasked to steal a shipment of gold. Anything goes wrong, one spy (Roy Orbison) has a bullet-shooting guitar handy - just in case.

Director: Michael D. Moore | Stars: Roy Orbison, Sammy Jackson, Maggie Pierce, Joan Freeman

Votes: 476

13. Backlash (1956)

Passed | 84 min | Drama, Western

Jim Slater seeks a survivor of the Apache ambush his father died in.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: Richard Widmark, Donna Reed, William Campbell, John McIntire

Votes: 1,881

14. Fighting Caravans (1931)

Passed | 92 min | Western

A young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love.

Directors: Otto Brower, David Burton | Stars: Gary Cooper, Lili Damita, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall

Votes: 724

15. Molly and Lawless John (1972)

PG | 98 min | Drama, Western

In New Mexico, a sheriff's unhappy mid-aged wife aids a condemned prisoner escape her husband's jail and elopes with the young and attractive outlaw to Mexico, pursued by the sheriff's posse.

Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Vera Miles, Sam Elliott, Clu Gulager, John Anderson

Votes: 334

16. The Trackers (1971 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 73 min | Drama, Western

When a rancher's daughter is kidnapped by Apaches, he forms a posse and sends for the U.S. Marshal but an African-American Deputy Marshal shows up instead.

Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Sammy Davis Jr., Ernest Borgnine, Julie Adams, Connie Kreski

Votes: 360

17. Horse Hare (1960)

7 min | Family, Western, Animation

The setting is 1886, somewhere in the Old West. Sergeant Bugs Bunny of the United States Cavalry is the sole guard of Fort Lariat, as everyone else has left for a mission. Renegade Sam leads an army of Indians in a siege of the fort.

Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 283

18. 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: 232

19. Hawk of the Wilderness (1938)

Approved | 213 min | Adventure

An expedition arrives on an uncharted jungle island to rescue the local natives, led by a jungle boy, from a volcano that is about to erupt.

Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Bruce Bennett, Mala, Monte Blue, Harley Wood

Votes: 89

20. Flaming Feather (1952)

Approved | 77 min | Western

In Arizona,during the 1870s, rancher Tex McCloud and cavalry Lt. Tom Blaine race to capture the famous renegade outlaw Ute leader known as the Sidewinder.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Forrest Tucker, Arleen Whelan, Barbara Rush

Votes: 440

21. Fort Bowie (1958)

Approved | 80 min | Western

At Fort Bowie, Captain Thompson favors peace talks but Major Wharton advocates war with the renegade Apaches led by Chief Victorio.

Director: Howard W. Koch | Stars: Ben Johnson, Jan Harrison, Kent Taylor, Maureen Hingert

Votes: 376

22. Homesteader Droopy (1954)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Homesteaders are not popular in cattle country, so when the cows complain to Dishonest Dan, The Cattle Man, he makes it tough on the Droopy family.

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Colleen Collins, Paul Frees

Votes: 581

23. I Yam What I Yam (1933)

6 min | Family, Animation, Short

Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Wimpy land in America thanks to her rowing. Popeye quickly turns some trees into a log cabin. He hunts for ducks and encounters some pesky Indians while another band of natives surround his two friends in the cabin.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel | Stars: William Costello, Charles Lawrence, William Pennell, Bonnie Poe

Votes: 365

24. The Life of Buffalo Bill (1912)

Short, Biography, Western

While on a vacation, an elderly Buffalo Bill dreams of his adventures as a young man when he scouted for the cavalry, fought Indians and captured outlaws.

Director: Paul Panzer | Stars: Buffalo Bill Cody, William James Craft, Irving Cummings, Paul Panzer

Votes: 43

25. Sweet Sioux (1937)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Family, Short

A satirical look at Hollywood's versions of the American West that features an Indian maiden who is is a dead-ringer for Martha Raye, while the Warner Bros. orchestra plays "The ... See full summary »

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Tedd Pierce, Shirley Reed

Votes: 136

26. The Massacre (1912)

Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Action, War

The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Wilfred Lucas, Blanche Sweet, Charles West, Alfred Paget

Votes: 357

27. It's a Grand Old Nag (1947)

8 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

A slick movie director tricks a hayseed horse into becoming a stunt double.

Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Stan Freberg, Dave Barry

Votes: 56

28. The Old Pioneer (1934)

8 min | Animation, Short, Family

In this second entry in MGM's Happy Harmonies series, an old man tells a newsboy about his adventures with Native Americans in the Old West.

Director: Rudolf Ising | Stars: Rudolf Ising, Johnny Murray

Votes: 151

29. The Bugle Call (1916)

50 min | Drama, Western

Billy, who is the little son of Captain Andrews, commandant of a western army post, has one ambition in life, and that is to become a good soldier. This he has confided to his friend, ... See full summary »

Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: William Collier Jr., Wyndham Standing, Anna Lehr, Tom Guise

30. 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

31. Fort Laurens (2019 Video)

20 min | Documentary, Short, History

Fort Laurens is the only Revolutionary War-era military fort built in Ohio. This documentary explorers the history of the fort and the site, from the Pennsylvanian geologic era and the Ice ... See full summary »

Stars: Doug Angeloni, Dave Dyer, George Ebey, John Haas

32. Stunt Men (1960)

6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Heckle and Jeckle are stuntmen who try to sabotage the screen tests of the studio's newest TV star, Flint Locke, an actor who does all his own stunts.

Director: Martin Taras | Star: Roy Halee

Votes: 16

33. Nicky Rides Again (1938)

7 min | Animation, Short, Western

A naughty pilgrim boy holds an Indian boy hostage causing a war to break out, Nicky Nome comes to save the day with a Chevrolet.

Director: F. Lyle Goldman

Votes: 9

34. The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971)
Episode: The Indians Are Coming (1967)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

When Crowfoot Indians come to Beverly Hills to discuss a boundary dispute at the Clampett oil field, Granny prepares for war.

Director: Joseph Depew | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr.

Votes: 122

35. Cheyenne (1955–1963)
Episode: Massacre at Gunsight Pass (1961)

TV-G | 60 min | Western

Cheyenne takes a stage to transfer an outlaw to the brig at Fort Bridger. One of the passengers shoots a Shoshone and the rest bury him. When they reach the Relay Station, they find plenty of surprises waiting besides the angry Indians.

Director: Robert Sparr | Stars: Clint Walker, Patricia Michon, Jack Elam, Kathie Browne

Votes: 76

36. Cheyenne (1955–1963)
Episode: The Greater Glory (1961)

TV-G | 60 min | Western

Cheyenne has never met a woman who's Mormon faith is quite this strong. Enough to drive her cattle to Salt Lake, survive a landslide, an attempted stampede and stop the men who are trying to stop her from saving her ranch and husband.

Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Clint Walker, Ray Stricklyn, Susan Crane, Tod Griffin

Votes: 81

37. Cheyenne (1955–1963)
Episode: Two Trails to Santa Fe (1960)

TV-G | 60 min | Western

The Army pulls out to head to Texas. This leaves the local prospectors unprotected and the Indians unchecked. When Cheyenne escorts a few women to Santa Fe, he has to fight two of the growing West's biggest issues - gold fever and Indians.

Director: Robert Sparr | Stars: Clint Walker, Randy Stuart, Robert Colbert, Richard Webb

Votes: 81

38. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Kiowa (1970)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

When Ed Vail's daughter is kidnapped by Indians, Ed and his sons set out to find the girl. But Ed will have to come to grips with himself before rescuing his daughter.

Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis, Buck Taylor

Votes: 167

39. Maverick (1957–1962)
Episode: Burial Ground of the Gods (1958)

TV-G | 60 min | Western

Bart trails a thief to the Wyoming badlands where the man is leading a woman and her fiancé to where he claims to have seen her supposedly dead husband. In order to regain his money, Bart ... See full summary »

Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: Jack Kelly, Nancy Gates, Robert Lowery, Claude Akins

Votes: 94

40. Maverick (1957–1962)
Episode: The Burning Sky (1958)

TV-G | 49 min | Western

Travelling across the Arizona desert, the stagecoach conveying Bart Maverick and his companions is attacked by what appear to be Apache Indians. The passengers manage to reach the ruins of ... See full summary »

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Jack Kelly, Gerald Mohr, Joanna Barnes, Douglas Kennedy

Votes: 107

41. Tate (1960)
Episode: The Return of Jessica Jackson (1960)

30 min | Western

Shades of The Searchers as an obsessed man negotiates the release of his wife abducted eight years earlier by a Paiute raiding party. He did not anticipate her bringing home a half-Indian child, or of the Paiute father's fierce resistance.

Director: David Orrick McDearmon | Stars: David McLean, John Kellogg, Jock Gaynor, Henry Corden

Votes: 28

42. Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode: The Molly Kincaid Story (1963)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

After leaving St. Joseph, Hale tells everyone there are no Indians when in fact two escaped Comanches have stolen horses and shown up at the wagon train's first stop. There, the female wants to kill a man-her cowardly husband.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: John McIntire, Robert Fuller, Frank McGrath, Terry Wilson

Votes: 116

43. Walker, Texas Ranger (1993–2001)
Episode: On Sacred Ground (1995)

TV-PG | Action, Adventure, Crime

Walker returns to the Indian reservation when some Cherokees are accused of stealing pieces from an art gallery, claiming the pieces are really artifacts from a Native American region.

Director: Joe Coppoletta | Stars: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Noble Willingham, Sheree J. Wilson

Votes: 127

44. Into the West (2005)
Episode: Manifest Destiny (2005)

TV-14 | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Manifest Destiny.

Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Beau Bridges, Jessica Capshaw, Tonantzin Carmelo, Derek de Lint

Votes: 181