List of Western films

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.

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.

1900s

1903 — 8

• The Great Train Robbery

1904 — 4

1905 — 0

1906 — 0

1907 — 7

• The Bandit King

1908 — 13

1909 — 39

• The House of Cards
• The Red Man's View

1910s

1910 — 126

• In Old California
• Broncho Billy's Redemption

1911 — 224

• The Lonedale Operator
• Fighting Blood

1912 — 336

• The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch

1913 — 311

• The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
• The Massacre

1914 — 244

• The Squaw Man
• Broncho Billy and the Greaser

1916

• The Apostle of Vengeance

1917

• The Narrow Trail
• Wild and Wooly

1920s

1920

• The Toll Gate

1922

• Sky High

1924

• North of 36
• The Iron Horse

1925

• Go West
• The Lucky Horseshoe
• Tumbleweeds

1926

• The Great K & A Train Robbery
• Hellbent

1930s

1930

• Billy the Kid
• Cimarron
• Hell's Heroes

1932

• Law and Order

1933

• Son of the Border

1935

• Hopalong Cassidy Enters

1936

• Hopalong Cassidy Returns
• Miracle in the Sand

1938

• Come on Rangers
• Overland Stage Raiders
• The Texans

1939

• Destry Rides Again
• Dodge City
• Rough Riders' Roundup
• Stagecoach

1940s

1940

• The Dark Command
• Gaucho Serenade
• Go West
• When the Daltons Rode
• The Westerner

1941

• Western Union

1943

• The Ox-Bow Incident

1946

• Abilene Town
• Badman's Territory
• Canyon Passage
• Duel in the Sun
• My Darling Clementine
• My Pal Trigger
• The Virginian (film)

1947

• The Vigilante Fighting Hero of the West

1948

• Fort Apache
• The Man From Colorado
• Old Los Angeles
• Panhandle
• Red River
• Station West
• Three Godfathers
• The Untamed Breed
• Yellow Sky

1949

• I Shot Jesse James
• Masked Raiders
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

1950s

1950

• Broken Arrow
• The Gunfighter
• Rio Grande
• Short Grass
• Stars in My Crown
• Wagon Master
• Winchester '73

1951

• The Red Badge of Courage
• Westward the Women

1952

• Bend of the River
• High Noon
• Rancho Notorious

1953

• Hondo
• Shane
• The Last of the Pony Riders
• The Man from the Alamo
• The Naked Spur

1954

• Broken Lance
• Garden Of Evil
• Johnny Guitar
• Vera Cruz

1955

• Bad Day at Black Rock
• Chief Crazy Horse
• The Far Country
• The Man from Laramie
• Man Without a Star
• Wichita

1956

• 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

1957

• 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

1958

• The Big Country
• The Bravados
• Man of the West
• The Sheepman

1959

• Day of the Outlaw
• Last Train from Gun Hill
• No Name on the Bullet
• Ride Lonesome
• Rio Bravo
• Warlock

1960s

1960

• The Magnificent Seven
• The Unforgiven

1961

• The Comancheros
• The Misfits

1962

• How the West was Won
• Lonely Are the Brave
• Ride the High Country
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

1963

• Hud

1964

• A Fistful of Dollars

1965

• Cat Ballou
• For a Few Dollars More
• Shenandoah
• The Great Sioux Massacre
• The Sons of Katie Elder

1966

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• The Professionals

1967

• Hombre
• The Shooting
• The War Wagon

1968

• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Il Grande silenzio (aka The Great Silence)
• Will Penny

1969

• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Support Your Local Sheriff!
• The Wild Bunch
• True Grit

1970s

1970

• The Ballad of Cable Hogue
• Cannon for Cordoba
• Little Big Man
• Monte Walsh

1971

• The Hired Hand
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• The Wild Rovers
• Valdez Is Coming

1972

• Bad Company
• Jeremiah Johnson
• Ulzana's Raid

1973

• High Plains Drifter
• Valdez, il Mezzosangue
• Westworld

1974

• Blazing Saddles
• Zandy's Bride

1976

• The Outlaw Josey Wales
• The Shootist

1980s

1980

• The Long Riders

1982

• The Man from Snowy River

1985

• Silverado

1986

• West and soda

1987

• Near Dark

1988

• Return to Snowy River

1988 in film 1988

• Young Guns

1990s

1990

• Dances With Wolves

1990 in film 1990

• Young Guns II

1991

• Conagher (TV movie)

1992

• Mad at the Moon
• Unforgiven

1993

• Geronimo: An American Legend
• The Ballad of Little Jo
• Tombstone

1994

• Maverick

1995

• Dead Man
• The Desperate Trail (direct to video film)
• The Quick and the Dead

1999

• Wild Wild West

2000s

2000

• 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

2001

• The American Astronaut

2002

• 800 Bullets

2003

• Open Range
• The Missing

2004

• The Alamo
• Home on the Range
• Tremors 4: The Legend Begins

2005

• Brokeback Mountain
• The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
• The Proposition

2006

• Sugar Creek

See also

• Western movie
• Notable figures in Westerns

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