Epic Western
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    People

    Jeff Fahey

    A prolific actor known to crank out up to six films a year, Jeff Fahey was pretty much hovering...

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    Movies

    Little Big Man (1970)

    A 121-year-old white survivor (Dustin Hoffman) of Custer's Last Stand recalls his checkered life...

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    Heaven's Gate (1980)

    A well-educated marshal (Kris Kristofferson) defends immigrant settlers against cattle barons in...

  • Custer of the West picture
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    Custer of the West (1968)

    Gen. George Armstrong Custer (Robert Shaw) offends politicians and ends up with the 7th Cavalry at...

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    The Alamo (1960)

    Davy Crockett (John Wayne), Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) and William Travis (Laurence Harvey) die...

  • The Big Country picture
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    The Big Country (1958)

    A former sea captain (Gregory Peck) goes West, woos women (Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker) and joins a...

  • The Magnificent Seven picture
    Movies

    The Magnificent Seven (1960)

    A man in black (Yul Brynner) recruits six hired guns to lead Mexican villagers against the gang of...

  • How the West Was Won picture
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    How the West Was Won (1962)

    The history of 19th-century Western expansion, as seen through the lives of three generations of a...

  • Duel in the Sun picture
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    Duel in the Sun

    Good and bad sons (Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck) of a Texas cattle baron fight each other, and the...

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    Red River (1948)

    A cattle baron (John Wayne) fights with his foster son (Montgomery Clift) on the first cattle drive...

  • Dances With Wolves picture
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    Dances With Wolves (1990)

    Costner's epic vision of the American frontier as seen through the eyes of a 19th-century U.S....

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    Wyatt Earp (1994)

    The portrait traces him from Southern boy to Western lawman (Kevin Costner) defending boomtowns with...

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    The Big Trail (1930)

    A young pioneer (John Wayne) leads the first wagon train west on the Oregon Trail.

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    The Searchers (1956)

    A Confederate veteran (John Wayne) and his part-Cherokee partner (Jeffrey Hunter) search five years...

  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly picture
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    The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)

    A drifter (Clint Eastwood), a bandit (Eli Wallach) and a bounty hunter (Lee Van Cleef) reach a...

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    The Alamo (2004)

    In 1836 Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton), Jim Bowie (Jason Patric) and more than 180 Texans hold...

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    People

    Thomas B Henry

    If you've ever seen a war picture, sci-fi epic or western from the 1940s or 1950s, then you've seen...

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    Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

    A cavalry captain (Richard Widmark) is ordered to stop 300 Cheyennes migrating from Oklahoma to...

  • Geronimo: An American Legend picture
    Movies

    Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)

    An Army general orders a Virginia lieutenant (Jason Patric) to bring in the Apache warrior (Wes...

  • Once Upon a Time in the West picture
    Movies

    Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)

    An outlaw (Henry Fonda) working for a railroad magnate fights a stranger (Charles Bronson) for a New...

  • The Great Sioux Massacre picture
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    The Great Sioux Massacre (1965)

    The story of Gen. Custer (Philip Carey) and the Little Bighorn is seen through the eyes of two of...

  • The Magnificent Seven Ride picture
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    The Magnificent Seven Ride (1972)

    A marshal (Lee Van Cleef), an Eastern reporter and five ex-convicts rescue widows from Mexican...

  • Across the Wide Missouri picture
    Movies

    Across the Wide Missouri (1951)

    A beaver trapper (Clark Gable) marries a Blackfoot chief's daughter who guides his group safely...

  • Cimarron picture
    Movies

    Cimarron (1930)

    Husband-and-wife homesteaders (Richard Dix, Irene Dunne) join the Oklahoma land rush of 1889 and...

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    The Covered Wagon (1924)

    James Cruze revived the western genre and presented audiences with the first western epic in the...

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    Movies

    The Plainsman

    Wild Bill Hickok (Gary Cooper), Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur) and Buffalo Bill (James Ellison) go up...

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    The Vanishing American

    A Navajo (Scott Brady) unites with an Eastern heiress (Audrey Totter) against a crooked trader...

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    Arizona (1940)

    A drifter (William Holden) and the cavalry help the first woman (Jean Arthur) in Tucson protect her...

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    Hearts of Oak

    Hearts of Oak is, alas, one of the many "lost" silent films of pantheon director John Ford. Filmed...

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    The Iron Horse

    A cowboy (George O'Brien) helps his sweetheart's (Madge Bellamy) father build the first...