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.

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