Title: The Searchers
Released in: 1956
Genre Adventure, Western
Cast John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles
Director: John Ford
Plot: 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.
Title: Rio Bravo
Released in: 1959
Genre Western
Cast John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson
Director: Howard Hawks
Plot: A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
Title: How the West Was Won
Released in: 1962
Genre Action, Adventure, War
Cast James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck
Director: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall
Plot: 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.
Title: Cheyenne Autumn
Released in: 1964
Genre Drama, History, Western
Cast Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden
Director: John Ford
Plot: The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.
Title: The Wild Bunch
Released in: 1969
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama
Cast William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Plot: An aging group of outlaws in 1913 Texas look for one last big score, selling stolen Army rifles to a rogue Mexican general during that country s revolution, as the traditional American West is disappearing around them.
Title: Jeremiah Johnson
Released in: 1972
Genre Adventure, Drama, Western
Cast Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton
Director: Sydney Pollack
Plot: A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier.
Title: The Outlaw Josey Wales
Released in: 1976
Genre Drama, Western
Cast Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George
Director: Clint Eastwood
Plot: Missouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.
Title: Pale Rider
Released in: 1985
Genre Drama, Western
Cast Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress
Director: Clint Eastwood
Plot: A mysterious preacher protects gold miners from villains.
Title: Unforgiven
Released in: 1992
Genre Drama, Western
Cast Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman
Director: Clint Eastwood
Plot: Retired Old West gunslinger Will Munny reluctantly takes on one last job to avenge an injustice with the help of his old partner and a young would-be gunman calling himself The Schofield Kid .
Title: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Released in: 2007
Genre Biography, Crime, Drama
Cast Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard
Director: Andrew Dominik
Plot: Robert Ford, who has idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the resurgent gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.
Released in: 1956
Genre Adventure, Western
Cast John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles
Director: John Ford
Plot: 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.
Title: Rio Bravo
Released in: 1959
Genre Western
Cast John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson
Director: Howard Hawks
Plot: A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
Title: How the West Was Won
Released in: 1962
Genre Action, Adventure, War
Cast James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck
Director: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall
Plot: 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.
Title: Cheyenne Autumn
Released in: 1964
Genre Drama, History, Western
Cast Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden
Director: John Ford
Plot: The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.
Title: The Wild Bunch
Released in: 1969
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama
Cast William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Plot: An aging group of outlaws in 1913 Texas look for one last big score, selling stolen Army rifles to a rogue Mexican general during that country s revolution, as the traditional American West is disappearing around them.
Title: Jeremiah Johnson
Released in: 1972
Genre Adventure, Drama, Western
Cast Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton
Director: Sydney Pollack
Plot: A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier.
Title: The Outlaw Josey Wales
Released in: 1976
Genre Drama, Western
Cast Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George
Director: Clint Eastwood
Plot: Missouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.
Title: Pale Rider
Released in: 1985
Genre Drama, Western
Cast Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress
Director: Clint Eastwood
Plot: A mysterious preacher protects gold miners from villains.
Title: Unforgiven
Released in: 1992
Genre Drama, Western
Cast Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman
Director: Clint Eastwood
Plot: Retired Old West gunslinger Will Munny reluctantly takes on one last job to avenge an injustice with the help of his old partner and a young would-be gunman calling himself The Schofield Kid .
Title: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Released in: 2007
Genre Biography, Crime, Drama
Cast Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard
Director: Andrew Dominik
Plot: Robert Ford, who has idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the resurgent gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.