List of Western films
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This is a list of notable Western films and TV series by year. For a long-running TV series, the year is its first in production.
The movie industry began with the work of Louis Le Prince in 1888. Until 1903, films had been one-reelers, usually lasting 10 to 12 minutes, reflecting the amount of film that could be wound onto a standard reel for projection, hence the term. Edwin S. Porter was a former projectionist and exhibitor who had taken charge of motion-picture production at Thomas Edison’s company in 1901. He fully realised the potential of motion pictures as an entertainment medium and began making longer films that told a story. As with the films of Georges Méliès, these required multiple shots that could be edited into a narrative sequence.
The most famous work of early cinema, The Great Train Robbery is credited with establishing the movies as a commercial entertainment medium. It was notable for rapid shifts of location, including action on a moving train. Although there had previously been short films that referenced the "Wild West" or paid homage to it, "The Great Train Robbery" marked the birth of the genre.
Note: The figure that follows each year is the number of western genre titles listed in the IMDb catalogue for that year. 1903 is the first year in which IMDb acknowledges the genre.
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[edit] 1890s
1894 — 0
- Annie Oakley
- Buffalo Bill
- Buffalo Dance
- Sioux Ghost Dance
These films were all shorts produced by William K. L. Dickson at the famous Edison "Black Maria" studio. All the performers were from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show with Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill himself exhibiting their rifle shooting skills. The two dances featured three members of the Sioux tribe who were thus the first Native Americans to perform on film.
[edit] 1900s
1905 — 0
1906 — 0
- The Bandit King
- The House of Cards
- The Red Man's View
[edit] 1910s
- In Old California
- Broncho Billy's Redemption
- The Lonedale Operator
- Fighting Blood
- The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
- The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
- The Massacre
- The Squaw Man
- Broncho Billy and the Greaser
- The Apostle of Vengeance
- The Narrow Trail
- Wild and Wooly
[edit] 1920s
- The Toll Gate
- North of 36
- The Iron Horse
- Go West
- The Lucky Horseshoe
- Tumbleweeds
[edit] 1930s
- Billy the Kid
- Cimarron
- Hell's Heroes
- Law and Order
- Son of the Border
- Hopalong Cassidy Enters
- Hopalong Cassidy Returns
- Miracle in the Sand
- Rhythm on the Range
- Come on Rangers
- Overland Stage Raiders
- The Texans
- Destry Rides Again
- Dodge City
- Rough Riders' Roundup
- Stagecoach
[edit] 1940s
- The Dark Command
- Gaucho Serenade
- Go West
- When the Daltons Rode
- The Westerner
- Abilene Town
- Bad Bascomb
- Badman's Territory
- Canyon Passage
- Duel in the Sun
- My Darling Clementine
- My Pal Trigger
- The Virginian (film)
- Fort Apache
- The Man From Colorado
- Old Los Angeles
- Panhandle
- Red River
- Station West
- Three Godfathers
- The Untamed Breed
- Yellow Sky
- I Shot Jesse James
- Masked Raiders
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
[edit] 1950s
- Broken Arrow
- The Gunfighter
- Rio Grande
- Short Grass
- Stars in My Crown
- Wagon Master
- Winchester '73
- The Red Badge of Courage
- Westward the Women
- Hondo
- Shane
- The Last of the Pony Riders
- The Man from the Alamo
- The Naked Spur
- Broken Lance
- Garden Of Evil
- Johnny Guitar
- The Lawless Rider
- Vera Cruz
- Bad Day at Black Rock
- Chief Crazy Horse
- The Far Country
- The Man from Laramie
- Man Without a Star
- Wichita
- The Broken Star
- The Fastest Gun Alive
- Giant
- Great Day in the Morning
- Jubal
- The Last Wagon
- The Proud Ones
- The Searchers
- Seven Men from Now
- 3:10 to Yuma
- Decision at Sundown
- Dragoon Wells Massacre
- Drango
- Forty Guns
- Gun Glory
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
- Man in the Shadow
- Night Passage
- Run of the Arrow
- The Hired Gun
- The Ride Back
- The Tall Stranger
- The Tall T
- The Tin Star
- The True Story of Jesse James
- "Boots and Saddles" — TV Series
- "Have Gun - Will Travel" — TV Series
- "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans" — TV Series
- "Maverick" — TV Series
- "Sugarfoot" — TV Series
- "Tales of Wells Fargo" — TV Series
- "Wagon Train" — TV Series
- "Zorro" — TV Series
- The Big Country
- The Bravados
- Man of the West
- The Sheepman
- Day of the Outlaw
- Last Train from Gun Hill
- No Name on the Bullet
- Ride Lonesome
- Rio Bravo
- Warlock
[edit] 1960s
- Cat Ballou
- For a Few Dollars More
- Shenandoah
- The Great Sioux Massacre
- The Sons of Katie Elder
- West and soda
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Il Grande silenzio (aka The Great Silence)
- Will Penny
- Hang 'Em High
[edit] 1970s
- The Hired Hand
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller
- The Wild Rovers
- Valdez Is Coming
- High Plains Drifter
- Valdez, il Mezzosangue
- Westworld
- Blazing Saddles
- Zandy's Bride
- The Outlaw Josey Wales
- The Shootist
- The Last Hard Men
[edit] 1980s
[edit] 1990s
- Conagher (TV movie)
- Dead Man
- The Desperate Trail (direct to video film)
- The Quick and the Dead
[edit] 2000s
- All the Pretty Horses
- From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
- Shanghai Noon
- South of Heaven, West of Hell
- Tears of the Black Tiger
- Bandidas
- Sugar Creek
