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1. Hell on Wheels (2011–2016)

TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Western

The Civil War is past, but former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon can't put it behind him. Fresh are the memories of the death of his wife, killed at the hands of Union soldiers, an act that sets him on a course of revenge.

Stars: Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Robin McLeavy, Phil Burke

Votes: 55,754

2. Hostiles (2017)

R | 134 min | Drama, Western

In 1892, a legendary Army Captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.

Director: Scott Cooper | Stars: Scott Shepherd, Rosamund Pike, Ava Cooper, Stella Cooper

Votes: 95,673 | Gross: $29.82M

3. August: Osage County (2013)

R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama

A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

Director: John Wells | Stars: Meryl Streep, Dermot Mulroney, Julia Roberts, Juliette Lewis

Votes: 95,328 | Gross: $37.74M

4. Stagecoach (1939)

Passed | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.

Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, John Carradine

Votes: 53,748

5. Little Big Man (1970)

PG-13 | 139 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.

Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam

Votes: 37,886 | Gross: $31.56M

6. Red Dead Redemption (2010 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Crime

A former outlaw is forced by the federal government to hunt down the members of his old gang.

Stars: Rob Wiethoff, Josh Blaylock, Sophia Marzocchi, Spider Madison

Votes: 30,486

7. Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

GP | 108 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

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.

Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton, Josh Albee

Votes: 34,979 | Gross: $47.74M

8. Into the West (2005)

TV-14 | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Tales from the American West in the 19th century, told from the perspective of two families, one of white settlers and one of Native Americans.

Stars: Joseph M. Marshall, Irene Bedard, Gil Birmingham, John Terry

Votes: 7,552

9. White Feather (1955)

Approved | 102 min | Drama, History, Western

In 1877 Wyoming, during the peace negotiations between the Cheyenne and the USA, an Indian girl falls in love with a land surveyor, causing the ire of her Cheyenne fiance.

Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, John Lund, Debra Paget

Votes: 1,170

10. The Quest (1976)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Western

2 brothers and a sister separated by Indians when the younger brother and sister were taken by them. The brothers finally reunite and decide to go on a quest to find their sister.

Stars: Kurt Russell, Tim Matheson, Frank Salsedo, Dan O'Herlihy

Votes: 293

11. Centennial (1978–1979)

TV-PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The economic and cultural growth of Colorado spanning two centuries from the mid 1700s to the late 1970s.

Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Carrera, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Conrad

Votes: 3,667

12. Soldier Blue (1970)

R | 112 min | Drama, War, Western

After a cavalry patrol is ambushed by the Cheyenne, the two survivors, a soldier and a woman, must reach the safety of the nearest fort.

Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, John Anderson

Votes: 6,276 | Gross: $0.51M

13. Wild Bill (1995)

R | 98 min | Action, Biography, Drama

The early career of legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickock is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.

Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, John Hurt, Diane Lane

Votes: 7,862 | Gross: $2.17M

14. The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Loosely based on historical fact, the series portrays the gunslinging Wyatt Earp and his successful determination for law and order.

Stars: Hugh O'Brian, Jimmy Noel, Ethan Laidlaw, Bill Coontz

Votes: 1,106

15. Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

PG | 154 min | Drama, History, Western

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.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo

Votes: 6,445

16. The Quest (1976 TV Movie)

PG | 93 min | Western

Two brothers search the west for their sister, who was kidnapped as a child and is now living with a tribe of Indians.

Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Kurt Russell, Tim Matheson, Brian Keith, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 337

17. Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)

PG | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Western

A cynical Buffalo Bill hires Sitting Bull to exploit him and add his credibility to the distorted view of history presented in his Wild West Show.

Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy, Harvey Keitel

Votes: 5,290

18. The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954–1959)

30 min | Family, Western

Rusty was orphaned in an Indian raid. He and his dog Rin Tin Tin were adopted by the troops at Fort Apache in Arizona, and helped establish law and order in and around Mesa Grande.

Stars: Lee Aaker, James Brown, Rin Tin Tin II, Joe Sawyer

Votes: 856

19. Windwalker (1980)

PG | 108 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

In 1797 Utah, an aged Cheyenne patriarch helps his kin to fight off a raiding party of rival Crow warriors and he tells his grandchildren the story of their family.

Director: Kieth Merrill | Stars: Trevor Howard, Nick Ramus, James Remar, Serene Hedin

Votes: 1,226 | Gross: $18.64M

20. DreamKeeper (2003)

TV-PG | 174 min | Drama, Fantasy

The legends of the Native American nations come to life in this epic new miniseries, as two generations--a century-old storyteller and his grandson, a troubled 17-year-old boy--embark on a cross-country journey toward self-discovery.

Director: Steve Barron | Stars: August Schellenberg, Eddie Spears, Gary Farmer, John Trudell

Votes: 1,724

21. Custer of the West (1967)

G | 143 min | Biography, Drama, History

George Armstrong Custer's love of the heroic traditions of the Calvary and his distaste with the coming of industrialization leads him to his destiny at the Little Big Horn.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Ty Hardin, Jeffrey Hunter

Votes: 1,620

22. Son of the Morning Star (1991– )

PG-13 | 187 min | Biography, History, Western

The story of George Custer, Crazy Horse and the events prior to the battle of the Little Bighorn, told from the different perspectives of two women.

Stars: Gary Cole, Rosanna Arquette, Stanley Anderson, Edward Blatchford

Votes: 1,059

23. The Captive: The Longest Drive 2 (1976)

PG-13 | 80 min | Western

During a Cavalry massacre at an Indian village, two brothers, searching for their captured sister, rescue a white woman long ago kidnapped by the Cheyenne. They ride for their lives, haunted by the chant of the tribal Death Song.

Director: Barry Shear | Stars: Kurt Russell, Tim Matheson, Richard Egan, Dennis Cole

Votes: 114

24. The Iron Horse (1924)

Passed | 150 min | Drama, History, Romance

After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.

Director: John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull, Cyril Chadwick

Votes: 2,444 | Gross: $2.06M

25. The Plainsman (1936)

Passed | 113 min | Drama, Western

Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody attempt to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun-runners.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford

Votes: 2,429

26. Tomahawk (1951)

Approved | 82 min | Drama, Western

In 1866 Wyoming, a frontier scout tries to prevent a war between the Sioux and the U.S. after the Army builds a road and a fort on territory previously ceded to the Sioux by treaty.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Van Heflin, Yvonne De Carlo, Alex Nicol, Preston Foster

Votes: 1,043

27. Custer's Strategy of Defeat (2021)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Follows the narratives of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry and Native American warriors through the Battle of the Little Big Horn from June 25th through June 27th, 1876.

Director: Chris Hoffert | Stars: Bill Rini, Kyle C. Reed, Casey Birdinground, Ron Garritson

Votes: 10

28. Grayeagle (1977)

PG | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In this variant of The Searchers (1956), a tough frontier trapper tracks the young Cheyenne warrior who kidnapped his daughter.

Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Ben Johnson, Iron Eyes Cody, Lana Wood, Jack Elam

Votes: 694

29. 7th Cavalry (1956)

Approved | 75 min | Western

An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Horn.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Randolph Scott, Barbara Hale, Jay C. Flippen, Frank Faylen

Votes: 1,375

30. Buffalo Bill (1944)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Western

The story of William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, legendary westerner, from his days as an army scout to his later activities as owner of a Wild West show.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 1,701

31. Reel Injun (2009)

Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Western

The history of the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood films.

Directors: Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, Jeremiah Hayes | Stars: Adam Beach, Chris Eyre, Russell Means, John Trudell

Votes: 1,646

32. The Yellow Tomahawk (1954)

Approved | 82 min | Western

When the army insists on building a fort on Indian land, in defiance of a treaty, the warnings of a scout go unheeded.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Peggie Castle, Noah Beery Jr., Warner Anderson

Votes: 475

33. Dakota Incident (1956)

Approved | 88 min | Drama, Western

Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate group of passengers must band together to fight them off.

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Linda Darnell, Dale Robertson, John Lund, Ward Bond

Votes: 641

34. Apache Uprising (1965)

Approved | 90 min | Western

Various stage coach passengers and outlaws travelling through Indian country are forced to join forces against the Apaches.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet, John Russell, Lon Chaney Jr.

Votes: 504

35. Ride Out for Revenge (1957)

Approved | 78 min | Drama, Western

When an Indian chief is murdered in a hateful town, a sympathizing ex marshal tries to stop the Indians from attacking for revenge.

Director: Bernard Girard | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Gloria Grahame, Lloyd Bridges, Joanne Gilbert

Votes: 443

36. Cheyenne Warrior (1994)

PG | 90 min | Action, Western

An interracial love story, set in the turbulent wild west, stirs up tensions between the Indians and the settlers.

Director: Mark Griffiths | Stars: Kelly Preston, Bo Hopkins, Dan Haggerty, Clint Howard

Votes: 528

37. Brave Eagle (1955–1956)

30 min | Western

Reflecting the Native American viewpoint in the settlement of the American West, This was the first series where an American Indian was the lead character.

Stars: Keith Larsen, Anthony Numkena, Kim Winona, Bert Wheeler

Votes: 81

38. Cavalry Scout (1951)

Approved | 78 min | Western

After 3 Gatling Guns are stolen from a Montana army arsenal, a Cavalry scout is dispatched there to retrieve them before the thieves can sell them to the Indians.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Rod Cameron, Audrey Long, Jim Davis, James Millican

Votes: 172

39. Masterson of Kansas (1954)

Approved | 73 min | Western

In Kansas, fearing another Indian War, Sheriff Bat Masterson, Marshal Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday join forces to defuse tensions over grazing lands between Indians and greedy cattlemen.

Director: William Castle | Stars: George Montgomery, Nancy Gates, James Griffith, Jean Willes

Votes: 410

40. Trail of the Falcon (1968)

121 min | Drama, Western

In the latter half of the 19th century, gold is discovered in the Black Hills, an area which has already been allocated to the Dakota Indians as a winter reservation in a treaty. ... See full summary »

Director: Gottfried Kolditz | Stars: Gojko Mitic, Hannjo Hasse, Barbara Brylska, Lali Meskhi

Votes: 283

41. Wagons West (1952)

Passed | 70 min | Western

Jeff Curtis (Rod Cameron), a wagon-master on his way to accept the job of leading a pioneer train from Joplin, Missouri to the Oregon territory, picks up Ben Wilkins (Michael Chapin), a ... See full summary »

Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Rod Cameron, Noah Beery Jr., Peggie Castle, Michael Chapin

Votes: 146

42. Bad Jim (1990)

PG | 90 min | Drama, Western

A cowpoke buys Billy the Kid's horse and, upon riding it, becomes an incorrigible outlaw himself.

Director: Clyde Ware | Stars: James Brolin, Richard Roundtree, John Clark Gable, Harry Carey Jr.

Votes: 246

43. Warrior Women (2018)

65 min | Documentary, History

A documentary which details the life of Lakota activist and community organizer Madonna Thunder Hawk, whose career fighting for Indigenous and women's rights has now spanned over 50 years.

Directors: Elizabeth Castle, Christina D. King | Stars: Marcella Gilbert, Madonna Thunder Hawk

Votes: 50

44. Before the White Man Came (1920)

46 min | Documentary, Drama

Big Elk and Che-wee-na, both of the Great Bear tribe, are engaged to be married. White Wolf, the son of the chief of another tribe, offers to buy Che-wee-na; when her father refuses, Little... See full summary »

Director: John E. Maple | Stars: Old Badger, Bird Tail, Bear Claw, Mae Old Coyote

Votes: 19

45. The Life of Buffalo Bill (1912)

Short, Biography, Western

While on a vacation, an elderly Buffalo Bill dreams of his adventures as a young man when he scouted for the cavalry, fought Indians and captured outlaws.

Director: Paul Panzer | Stars: Buffalo Bill Cody, William James Craft, Irving Cummings, Paul Panzer

Votes: 43

46. Prudence and the Chief (1970 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy, Western

A young widow takes her two children and mother and opens a school in the untamed West and immediately comes into conflict with the local Indians

Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: Sally Ann Howes, Rick Jason, Kathryn Givney, Teddy Quinn

Votes: 10

47. Indian Life (1918)

Documentary

Director Paul Powell's documentary about American Indians shows life on the Cheyenne and Crow reservations in Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming.

Directors: John E. Maple, Paul Powell

48. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: Last Stop to Austin (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

Bat thinks a young gunfighter might be the son of a man with whom he fought at the Battle of Adobe Wells. He plans to appeal to the governor for a pardon for his crimes because of the unrewarded service of his father.

Director: Eddie Davis | Stars: Gene Barry, Jan Merlin, Robert Karnes, Charles Fredericks

Votes: 29

49. Brave Eagle (1955–1956)
Episode: The Treachery of At-Ta-Tu (1955)

26 min | Western

Brave Eagle puts his life on the line to prevent an Indian war after a Cheyenne warrior defies him and kidnaps a young white boy.

Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Keith Larsen, Anthony Numkena, Bert Wheeler, Kim Winona

Votes: 6

50. Custer (1967)
Episode: To the Death (1967)

60 min | Western

Chief Yellow Hawk is captured by the 7th. Later he manages to escape and begins a campaign to draw Custer into a personal battle to the death.

Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Wayne Maunder, Slim Pickens, Michael Dante, Robert F. Simon

Votes: 13