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1. 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: 96,244
2. The Ridiculous 6 (2015)
TV-14 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
An outlaw who was raised by Native Americans discovers that he has five half-brothers. Together the men go on a mission to find their wayward, deadbeat dad.
Director: Frank Coraci | Stars: Adam Sandler, Terry Crews, Jorge Garcia, Taylor Lautner
Votes: 53,608
3. 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: 37,885 | Gross: $31.56M
4. 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: 680
5. Two Rode Together (1961)
Passed | 109 min | Drama, Western
A corrupt marshal is pressured by his army friend into negotiating the release of white captives of the Comanches, but finds that their reintegration into society has its consequences.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones, Linda Cristal
Votes: 6,950
6. 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: 751
7. Alone Yet Not Alone (2013)
PG-13 | 103 min | Action, Drama, History
Alone yet Not Alone is based on the inspirational, true story of Barbara and Regina Leininger, two immigrant sisters forced to embark on a journey of faith that will lead them through the darkness of war into the light of freedom.
Directors: Ray Bengston, George D. Escobar | Stars: Kelly Greyson, Natalie Racoosin, Clay Walker, Jenn Gotzon
Votes: 974 | Gross: $0.67M
8. Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, Western
James Arness rides again as Matt Dillon, the U.S. Marshal he made popular in the 1955-75 television series. In this movie he goes after a renegade Apache named Wolf (Joe Lara) who has taken... See full summary »
Director: Charles Correll | Stars: James Arness, Richard Kiley, Amy Stoch, Geoffrey Lewis
Votes: 466
9. Trooper Hook (1957)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Western
When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Earl Holliman, Edward Andrews
Votes: 999
10. Bianco Apache (1987)
100 min | Drama, Horror, Western
Outlaws attack a band of settlers and kill everyone except a pregnant woman who's rescued by a band of Indians. The woman dies giving birth but Chief White Bear adopts her male baby, naming... See full summary »
Directors: Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei | Stars: Sebastian Harrison, Lola Forner, Alberto Farnese, Charly Bravo
Votes: 239
11. The Pathfinder (1952)
Passed | 78 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Pathfinder, a white man raised by the Mohican Indians, joins forces with the British army to avenge himself on the Mingo warriors and the French, who have brought death and pillage to his ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: George Montgomery, Helena Carter, Jay Silverheels, Walter Kingsford
Votes: 234
12. Dear America: Standing in the Light (1999 TV Movie)
TV-Y7 | 29 min | Drama, Family, History
A teenage Quaker farm girl is abducted by Indians in 1750s Pennsylvania.
Director: Stacey Stewart Curtis | Stars: Madeleine Bergeron, C. David Johnson, Jane Johanson, Jennifer Podemski
Votes: 86
13. Johnny Moccasin (1956 TV Movie)
26 min | Western
Johnny Moccasin is a white teenage boy who has been raised by an Indian tribe after his parents were killed in a wagon train massacre.
Director: Laslo Benedek | Stars: Jody McCrea, Sara Shane, Raymond Bailey, John Larch
Votes: 17
14.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Erin
(1969)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Hoss is rescued from a band of hungry Paiutes rustling Ponderosa cattle after a hard winter by Erin O'Donnell, an Irish woman who was raised by the Sioux and revered by the tribes as a medicine woman and mystic.
Director: Don Richardson | Stars: Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Mary Fickett
Votes: 107
15.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Love Me Not
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Ben's Pygmalion-like efforts to 'civilize' a young, white woman, raised by a neighboring Paiute Indian tribe, have an unintended result when, instead of choosing a husband from among the ... See full summary »
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 117
16.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Beginning
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights find Billy Horn, a young man who was taken captive and raised by the Shoshone. He comes to live with them and befriends them, as they try to re-accustom him to the white ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 106
17.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Savage
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Adam rides up on some Indians wanting to harm a white woman they believed was a mountain spirit. He kills them but not before they wound him. The woman nurses him back to health but the rest of the tribe is still out there looking for her.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 154
18.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Survivors
(1968)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A white woman, abducted by the Paiutes and thought to be dead, is brought back to Virginia City and reunited with her husband. When it is found she has an Indian baby with a Paiute chief, ... See full summary »
Director: Leon Benson | Stars: Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Mariette Hartley
Votes: 90
19.
Bordertown (1989–1991)
Episode:
Over the Line
(1989)
TV-14 | 23 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Craddock recognizes a visiting railroad promoter as a person from his Civil War past. The promoter has changed his name to hide his identity. Craddock ends up in jail accused of attacking the promoter
Director: Brad Turner | Stars: Richard Comar, John H. Brennan, Sophie Barjac, Jason Michas
Votes: 6
20.
Branded (1965–1966)
Episode:
The Wolfers
(1966)
22 min | Western
Jason comes upon a woman, a white Indian, tied up and rescues her. She tells him three wolfer brothers had kidnapped her and done unspeakable things to her. Jason attempts to take her back ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Chuck Connors, Bruce Dern, Zeme North, Morgan Woodward
Votes: 30
21.
Cheyenne (1955–1963)
Episode:
West of the River
(1956)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Cheyenne is asked to lead a group of guardhouse prisoners on a mission to rescue two girls taken captive by the Kiowa. He questions the odds or whether the girls will want to return. The mission starts okay but his fears may be true.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Clint Walker, Lois Collier, Trevor Bardette, Stephanie Griffin
Votes: 135
22.
Cimarron Strip (1967–1968)
Episode:
Heller
(1968)
TV-PG | 74 min | Western
Marshal Crown is shot while pursuing a murderous gang of outlaws who prey on isolated Indian villages. He is found, hidden and nursed back to health by Heller, a young woman who was raised ... See full summary »
Director: Gunnar Hellström | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Percy Herbert, Randy Boone, Jill Townsend
Votes: 52
23.
Daniel Boone (1964–1970)
Episode:
Hannah Comes Home
(1969)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Western
A woman long thought dead is discovered by Daniel living with the Chickasaw. Daniel tells her her husband is still alive and that she should come back. She does, but her husband has trouble accepting her Indian son.
Director: Fess Parker | Stars: Fess Parker, Patricia Blair, Darby Hinton, Dal McKennon
Votes: 35
24.
Daniel Boone (1964–1970)
Episode:
Tekawitha McLeod
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Western
A dance at Fort Boonesborough is interrupted by Flathead Joseph, a halfbreed slave trader. He has a young Indian girl with him whom he claims is a Cherokee Princess...and a white girl. Her ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Fess Parker, Albert Salmi, Ed Ames, Patricia Blair
Votes: 59
25.
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–1998)
Episode:
Another Woman
(1994)
TV-G | 47 min | Drama, Family, Western
A woman who has been living with Native Americans for over ten years is found and brought to Colorado Springs. Tensions rise between Sully and Mike when the girl becomes unusually attached to Sully.
Director: Chuck Bowman | Stars: Jane Seymour, Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores
Votes: 138
26.
F Troop (1965–1967)
Episode:
Yellow Bird
(1966)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Western
A white woman raised by Indians starts to take after the Captain.
Director: David Alexander | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch, Ken Berry, Melody Patterson
Votes: 58
27.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Hawk
(1969)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Sgt. Hawk is a half-breed lawman who stops by to visit his mother, who bore him while being held captive by Indians 20 years before. He finds that she has nothing but hate for him.
Director: Gunnar Hellström | Stars: Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis, Buck Taylor
Votes: 206
28.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Indian Ford
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Matt escorts a captain and his troops to an Indian village, to make an exchange for a white woman captured over a year ago.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake
Votes: 208
29.
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957)
Episode:
The Search
(1957)
Approved | Adventure, Drama, Western
Hawkeye and Chingachkook rescue an elderly woman from two Indians who have kidnapped her and were about to take her back to their tribe. She asks the two for help in finding her son, who ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr., Larry Solway, Marjorie Purvey
Votes: 28
30.
Hawkeye (1994–1995)
Episode:
The Child
(1994)
TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure
A couple from Virginia with a child seek safety in the fort, only they aren't the baby's parents, but uncle. When the baby is stolen by Hurons, Elizabeth goes to the camp to bring the white... See full summary »
Director: Richard Compton | Stars: Lee Horsley, Lynda Carter, Rodney A. Grant, Tamsin Kelsey
Votes: 30
31.
The High Chaparral (1967–1971)
Episode:
Feather of an Eagle
(1969)
PG | 60 min | Western
After spotting a blonde white woman with a group of Apaches, Blue cannot resist the urge to free her against the advice of Buck and Manolito. He frees her but is captured and her Apache husband wants her returned in return for Blue.
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Leif Erickson, Cameron Mitchell, Mark Slade, Henry Darrow
Votes: 76
32.
Hudson's Bay (1959– )
Episode:
Blue-Eyed Squaw
26 min | Adventure, Family, Western
Jonathan Banner and Pierre Falcon are sent on a special assignment from Fort Gannon to meet with Standing Bear. When the arrive, they meet Standing Bear's "adopted" daughter, blonde-haired ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Barry Nelson, George Tobias, Carol Starkman, Ron Taylor
33.
The Lazarus Man (1996)
Episode:
The Rescue
(1996)
Mystery, Western
Lazarus helps a group of men "rescue" a woman who was captured by Comanches years ago when she was 6. But the woman would rather stay with her Comanche family.
Stars: Robert Urich, Tym Thurston, Carmen Thomas, Heather Ehlers
Votes: 6
34.
Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode:
Injun Kid
(1977)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Jeremy Stokes lives in Walnut Grove. His daughter Amelia was rumored to have been kidnapped by some Indians. When her husband is killed she and her son, Spotted Eagle, come home to live ... See full summary »
Director: Victor French | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson
Votes: 341
35.
The Lone Ranger (1949–1957)
Episode:
The Law and Miss Aggie
(1957)
TV-G | 23 min | Western
The Lone Ranger becomes involved when a group of Indians are on the way to a special government meeting are attacked by a local land owner.
Director: Oscar Rudolph | Stars: Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Florence Lake, Dennis Moore
Votes: 45
36.
Northwest Passage (1958–1959)
Episode:
Vengeance Trail
(1958)
30 min | Adventure
A bounty hunter reports that the Mohegans, an Indian tribe who were previously neutral in the fight between the French and the English colonists, are preparing to go on the warpath against ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Keith Larsen, Buddy Ebsen, Don Burnett, Paul Fix
Votes: 8
37.
The Rebel (1959–1961)
Episode:
Yellow Hair
(1959)
Approved | 25 min | Western
A mortally wounded soldier stumbles into Johnny's camp. Before he dies, he says only one thing: "Fort Concho." Johnny rides to the fort and discovers it empty of soldiers. The sole survivor... See full summary »
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Nick Adams, Royal Dano, Rodolfo Acosta, Eddie Little Sky
Votes: 65
38.
The Tall Man (1960–1962)
Episode:
Apache Daughter
(1961)
30 min | Western
Garrett negotiates the return of a girl, now a full-grown woman, who was captured by the Apaches nine years earlier. Although her father welcomes her back with open arms, the former captive... See full summary »
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Clu Gulager, Sherry Jackson, J. Pat O'Malley
Votes: 11
39.
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
40.
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: 115
41.
Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode:
The Ruth Marshall Story
(1959)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Flint goes to look for a white woman lost in a battle with the Sioux eleven years earlier. A Sioux brave wounds Flint followed by Flint shooting the brave. A white woman who doesn't speak and lives with four wolves finds and treats Flint.
Director: Richard Bartlett | Stars: Ward Bond, Robert Horton, Luana Patten, Frank McGrath
Votes: 85
42.
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode:
Bounty for a Bride
(1959)
Approved | 24 min | Western
A decidedly different and dangerous assignment awaits Josh when he agrees to go into the Apache camp and compete in their contests to win the hand of a white woman the Indians kidnapped as a child and have raised as their own.
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Lori Nelson, Patrick McVey, Michael Pate
Votes: 131
43.
The Young Riders (1989–1992)
Episode:
Pride and Prejudice
(1990)
TV-PG | 47 min | Drama, Romance, Western
When Thompkins' wife and daughter who were taken by Indians years ago are found, they return to him. But also with give is a boy whom his wife says was fathered by the Indian who took them.... See full summary »
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan | Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Josh Brolin, Travis Fine, Don Franklin
Votes: 38
44.
Mackenzie's Raiders (1958–1959)
Episode:
Apache Boy
(1959)
30 min | Western
Colonel Mackenzie discovers that the son of an Apache chief he has captured is actually a white boy taken from his family long ago. The youngster's aunt and uncle agree to take the child as... See full summary »
Director: Richard Carlson | Stars: Richard Carlson, William Challee, Jack Mather, Elisabeth Cope
Votes: 15