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1. The Homesman (2014)

R | 122 min | Drama, Western

Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy, who in turn employs low-life drifter George Briggs to assist her.

Director: Tommy Lee Jones | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto

Votes: 35,736 | Gross: $2.43M

2. The Revenant (I) (2015)

R | 156 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson

Votes: 874,355 | Gross: $183.64M

3. 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: 290,662 | Gross: $184.21M

4. Wagon Train (1957–1965)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

Stories of the journeys of a wagon train as it leaves post-Civil War Missouri on its way to California through the plains, deserts, and Rocky Mountains.

Stars: Frank McGrath, Terry Wilson, Robert Horton, John McIntire

Votes: 3,751

5. The English (2022)

TV-MA | 51 min | Drama, Western

Follows a woman as she seeks revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.

Stars: Emily Blunt, Chaske Spencer, Stephen Rea, Tom Hughes

Votes: 29,089

6. Rawhide (1959–1965)

TV-PG | 50 min | Western

Gil Favor is trail boss of a continuous cattle drive. He is assisted by Rowdy Yates. The crew runs into characters and adventures along the way.

Stars: Clint Eastwood, Paul Brinegar, Steve Raines, Eric Fleming

Votes: 4,611

7. Little Big Man (1970)

PG-13 | 139 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.

Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam

Votes: 37,896 | Gross: $31.56M

8. Centennial (1978–1979)

TV-PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The economic and cultural growth of Colorado spanning two centuries from the mid 1700s to the late 1970s.

Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Carrera, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Conrad

Votes: 3,670

9. Assassin's Creed III (2012 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, History

The American Colonies, 1775. It's a time of civil unrest and political upheaval in the Americas. As a Native American fights to protect his land and his people, he will ignite the flames of a young nation's revolution.

Directors: François Daubet, Shea Wageman | Stars: Noah Watts, Neil Napier, Robin Atkin Downes, Adrian Hough

Votes: 18,671

10. 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: 509

11. The Mountain Men (1980)

R | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

A pair of grizzled frontiersmen fight Indians, guzzle liquor and steal squaws in their search for a legendary valley 'so full of beaver that they jump right into your traps' in this fanciful adventure.

Director: Richard Lang | Stars: Charlton Heston, Brian Keith, Victoria Racimo, Stephen Macht

Votes: 2,606

12. 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: 3,279

13. Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (2013)

Unrated | 117 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

A troubled Native American veteran forms an extraordinary friendship with his maverick French psychoanalyst as they try to find a cure to his suffering.

Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Gina McKee, Larry Pine

Votes: 3,119 | Gross: $0.02M

14. The Iron Horse (1924)

Passed | 150 min | Drama, History, Romance

After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.

Director: John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull, Cyril Chadwick

Votes: 2,443 | Gross: $2.06M

15. Grayeagle (1977)

PG | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In this variant of The Searchers (1956), a tough frontier trapper tracks the young Cheyenne warrior who kidnapped his daughter.

Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Ben Johnson, Iron Eyes Cody, Lana Wood, Jack Elam

Votes: 694

16. Fort Massacre (1958)

Approved | 80 min | Western

A cavalry troop finds itself under constant attack by Indians.

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Joel McCrea, Forrest Tucker, John Russell, Susan Cabot

Votes: 1,076

17. Westward Ho, the Wagons! (1956)

Approved | 90 min | Family, Western

The adventures of a group of pioneers as their wagon train crosses the West.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Fess Parker, Kathleen Crowley, Jeff York, David Stollery

Votes: 405

18. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: One Bullet from Broken Bow (1959)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

Pawnee renegade Stone Calf and his braves have taken two white girls captive in a raid. The Army is leaving to back up Custer so Bat is asked to rescue the sisters. He reluctantly agrees to do it when his female friends pressures him.

Director: Allen H. Miner | Stars: Gene Barry, H.M. Wynant, Joan O'Brien, Donna Martell

Votes: 50

19. Brave Eagle (1955–1956)
Episode: Shield of Honor (1955)

30 min | Western

A Pawnee, realizing that he can't trick Brave Eagle into declaring war on a neighboring tribe, tries another tactic--befriending Keena, hoping it will get him influence over Brave Eagle.

Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Keith Larsen, Anthony Numkena, Bert Wheeler, Kim Winona

20. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode: Bread on the Desert (1968)

TV-PG | 25 min | Western

Two Americans on their way to Santa Fe are captured by Mexican troops and held prisoner until an Indian woman comes to their aid.

Director: Jack Shea | Stars: Sam Melville, Paul Winfield, Adrienne Hayes, Michael Keep

Votes: 30

21. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Long Hours, Short Pay (1961)

TV-G | 30 min | Western

A gunrunner supplies the Pawnee with weapons. Matt arrests him, but when the Pawnee find out, they capture Matt and free his prisoner.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, John Larch, Lalo Rios, Allan Lane

Votes: 132

22. Laramie (1959–1963)
Episode: Circle of Fire (1959)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

The stage arrives after a female passenger shoots a Pawnee who is the son of Chief Yellow Knife. The group is trapped at the relay station resulting in discord when they learn the woman is traveling with an ex-major accused of cowardice.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: John Smith, Hoagy Carmichael, Robert Crawford Jr., Robert Fuller

Votes: 120

23. Riverboat (1959–1961)
Episode: The Long Trail (1960)

60 min | Adventure, Western

A U.S. Army detachment is ordered to remove the Cherokee Indians from the ancestral homeland and the Enterprise is commandeered to transport the tribe to its new reservation. Gray Holden is... See full summary »

Director: Hollingsworth Morse | Stars: Darren McGavin, Jack Lambert, Michael McGreevey, Dick Wessel

24. Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode: The Emily Rossiter Story (1957)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

Emily Rossiter had a young daughter to care for. She met and married someone she felt she could trust. When she found out this was misplaced, getting the daughter away from him and into a better life becomes her main goal.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Ward Bond, Robert Horton, Mercedes McCambridge, Susan Oliver

Votes: 142

25. Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode: The Jose Maria Moran Story (1959)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

The Major and party find a Pawnee Indian strung up and left to die. Back at the wagon train they find he is not who he appears to be. The mystery deepens as the Shoshonees, who hung him there, are still after him and getting closer.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Ward Bond, Robert Horton, Robert Loggia, Audrey Dalton

Votes: 86

26. Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode: The Nels Stack Story (1957)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

A pacifist since the war, Nels Stack stands up to any man prejudiced against another. When his own beliefs are tested in the face of an impending Indian attack against the wagon train, he has to decide who he is going to defend.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Ward Bond, Robert Horton, Mark Stevens, Joanne Dru

Votes: 113

27. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Prison Trail (1960)

Approved | 30 min | Western

Josh and Jason are escorting four prisoners - three men and one woman - to Leavenworth prison when a stranger begins following along behind asking to travel with the group for protection from the Pawnee Indians but Josh refuses.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Wright King, Brad Dexter, Claude Akins

Votes: 125

28. The English (2022)
Episode: What You Want & What You Need (2022)

TV-MA | Drama, Western

Eli Whipp, a retired Pawnee scout out to claim his birthright, meets Cornelia Locke, an Englishwoman hell-bent on revenge. Their paths fated to cross, they travel north together.

Director: Hugo Blick | Stars: Emily Blunt, Chaske Spencer, Sam Alexander, Ben Temple

Votes: 1,263

29. Centennial (1978–1979)
Episode: For as Long as the Waters Flow (1978)

TV-PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Levi Zendt partners with Alexander McKeag and opens a trading post; later he assists in a historical treaty between the U.S. and the Indian Nations that soon falls apart.

Director: Paul Krasny | Stars: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Barbara Carrera, Richard Chamberlain

Votes: 132

30. Centennial (1978–1979)
Episode: The Wagon and the Elephant (1978)

TV-PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In the mid 1800s, Levi Zendt, a Mennonite, leaves Pennsylvania with his new wife Elly; the two head west for Oregon and along the way cross paths with Alexander McKeag.

Director: Paul Krasny | Stars: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Barbara Carrera, Richard Chamberlain

Votes: 146

31. Dead Man's Walk (1996)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (1996)

TV-14 | 90 min | Western

Young Texas Rangers Woodrow Call and Augustus McRae join with military expedition whose goal it is to annex Sante Fe on behalf of the new Texas Republic.

Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Keith Carradine, Patricia Childress, Brian Dennehy

Votes: 76

32. Dead Man's Walk (1996)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (1996)

TV-14 | 88 min | Western

A series of disasters overtakes Colonel Cobb and his ambition to annex Sante Fe including dust storms, prairie fires, Indians, and the Mexican army.

Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Keith Carradine, Patricia Childress, Edward James Olmos

Votes: 75

33. The Chisholms (1979– )
Episode: Chapter IV (1979)

96 min | Romance, Western

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Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Robert Preston, Rosemary Harris, Ben Murphy, Brian Kerwin

Votes: 13