Prospectors and Land Rights
  • The Claim picture
    Movies

    The Claim (2000)

    Twenty years after a town's founder (Peter Mullan) trades his wife and daughter for a gold claim,...

  • There Will Be Blood picture
    Movies

    There Will Be Blood (2007)

    Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) becomes a self-made oil tycoon, but he deviates into moral...

  • Eureka picture
    Movies

    Eureka (1984)

    An Alaskan gold prospector (Gene Hackman) lives in luxury with his family on an island gangsters...

  • Comes a Horseman picture
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    Comes a Horseman (1978)

    A rancher (James Caan) back from World War II helps a woman (Jane Fonda) fight a cattle baron (Jason...

  • 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...

  • Dynamite Canyon picture
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    Dynamite Canyon

    In this western, the bad guy kills a rancher and a Texas ranger so that the location of a copper...

  • The Gold Rush picture
    Movies

    The Gold Rush

    Mostly isolated in the Yukon, the little tramp (Charles Chaplin) cooks a shoe, falls in love, hangs...

  • River of No Return picture
    Movies

    River of No Return (1954)

    A farmer (Robert Mitchum) and his son raft Rockies rapids with a gold-rush gambler's (Rory Calhoun)...

  • The Ballad of Cable Hogue picture
    Movies

    The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

    A bushwhacked prospector (Jason Robards) teams up with a prostitute (Stella Stevens) to turn a water...

  • Call of the Wild picture
    Movies

    Call of the Wild (1975)

    The sled dog Buck helps a roughneck (Charlton Heston) and his partner to cover a lot of territory in...

  • White Fang picture
    Movies

    White Fang (1991)

    An orphan (Ethan Hawke) joins the Klondike gold rush with his Yukon guide (Klaus Maria Brandauer)...

  • The Spoilers picture
    Movies

    The Spoilers (1942)

    A cheated prospector (John Wayne) and a crooked gold official (Randolph Scott) have an epic brawl...

  • Cimarron picture
    Movies

    Cimarron (1960)

    Husband-and-wife homesteaders (Glenn Ford, Maria Schell) spend 25 years in Oklahoma after the great...

  • Paint Your Wagon picture
    Movies

    Paint Your Wagon (1969)

    Prospectors (Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood) share a wife (Jean Seberg) and a scheme to collect gold...

  • Tycoon picture
    Movies

    Tycoon (1947)

    An engineer (John Wayne) woos the daughter (Laraine Day) of a tycoon (Cedric Hardwicke) who has...

  • North Star picture
    Movies

    North Star (1996)

    The owner (Christopher Lambert) of gold-rich land counters attacks by a greedy businessman (James...

  • Cry Blood, Apache picture
    Movies

    Cry Blood, Apache

    An old man (Joel McCrea) recalls his days as a young man (Jody McCrea) fighting Indians in the Old...

  • Fighting Mad picture
    Movies

    Fighting Mad (1976)

    An Arkansas farmer (Peter Fonda) declares war on strip miners trying to grab his land.

  • Zanna Bianca picture
    Movies

    Zanna Bianca (1973)

    A boy and his family grow to love a wolf-dog raised to fight.

  • Cannibal! The Musical picture
    Movies

    Cannibal! The Musical (1998)

    A man (Juan Schwartz) convicted of cannibalism tells a reporter his story, complete with singing and...

  • The Return of a Man Called Horse picture
    Movies

    The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)

    An English lord (Richard Harris) returns to America and finds his Dakota brothers enslaved by a...

  • Three Violent People picture
    Movies

    Three Violent People (1956)

    Set in the American West after the Civil War, this drama is the pull-no-punches story of a lethal...

  • Forest Warrior picture
    Movies

    Forest Warrior (1996)

    An American-Indian spirit aids a group of children in saving a forest from destruction.

  • Wings of the Hawk picture
    Movies

    Wings of the Hawk

    Irish Gallegher, an American mining engineer working in Mexico has his gold mine is confiscated by...

  • Follow That Dream picture
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    Follow That Dream (1962)

    An Army veteran (Elvis Presley), his father (Arthur O'Connell) and four orphans live on a strip of...

  • The Hanging Tree picture
    Movies

    The Hanging Tree (1959)

    A doctor arrives in an old Western town, but his generosity in helping reform a thief and curing a...

  • Hurry Sundown picture
    Movies

    Hurry Sundown (1967)

    A ruthless up and coming Southerner is determined to buy up the tracts of land that border his land...

  • Oklahoma Crude picture
    Movies

    Oklahoma Crude (1973)

    A wildcatter (Faye Dunaway), her father (John Mills) and a boozing drifter (George C. Scott) defend...

  • The Violent Men picture
    Movies

    The Violent Men (1954)

    A rancher (Glenn Ford) fights a land-grabbing cattle baron (Edward G. Robinson) whose wife (Barbara...

  • Cowboys from Texas picture
    Movies

    Cowboys from Texas

    The Three Mesquiteers (Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton, Duncan Renaldo) defend the right to...