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1. The Revenant (I) (2015)

R | 156 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson

Votes: 874,591 | Gross: $183.64M

2. The Piano (1993)

R | 121 min | Drama, Music, Romance

In the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is soon lusted after by a farm worker.

Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin

Votes: 95,184 | Gross: $40.16M

3. All Mine to Give (1957)

Passed | 103 min | Drama, Family, Romance

An immigrant family in 1850's Wisconsin prospers until tragedy strikes.

Director: Allen Reisner | Stars: Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell, Rex Thompson, Patty McCormack

Votes: 1,574

4. The Salvation (2014)

R | 92 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

In 1870s America, the fury of a notorious gang leader is unleashed when a peaceful American settler avenges the death of his family. Then as his cowardly fellow townspeople betray him, he is forced to hunt down the outlaws alone.

Director: Kristian Levring | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eric Cantona

Votes: 43,208 | Gross: $0.01M

5. The Missouri Breaks (1976)

PG | 126 min | Drama, Western

Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.

Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Kathleen Lloyd

Votes: 12,195 | Gross: $14.00M

6. 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: 3,670

7. Westward the Women (1951)

Passed | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

A trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently begun settling there.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson, John McIntire

Votes: 3,803

8. The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert.

Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin

Votes: 10,534 | Gross: $3.50M

9. Into the Wild Frontier (2022– )

TV-PG | 43 min | Biography, Drama, History

As America expands westward, intrepid explorers and rugged mountain men risk their lives to blaze new trails into the wild frontier.

Stars: Delbert Hunt, Andrew Patrick Nelson, Walter Runningcrane Jr., Rick Hurst

Votes: 178

10. Broken Arrow (1950)

Approved | 93 min | Drama, Romance, Western

Tom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apaches in Arizona territory.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Basil Ruysdael

Votes: 9,684

11. Man in the Wilderness (1971)

GP | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Left for dead after a bear attack, a fur-trapper recuperates and pursues his former companions through dangerous Indian territory.

Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon, Percy Herbert

Votes: 3,477

12. The Way West (1967)

Approved | 122 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

In 1843, a former U.S. Senator leads a wagon train of settlers to Oregon, but his megalomania leads to growing dissatisfaction with his leadership.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright

Votes: 3,572

13. Unconquered (1947)

Passed | 146 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff

Votes: 2,889

14. The Mountain Men (1980)

R | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

A pair of grizzled frontiersmen fight Indians, guzzle liquor and steal squaws in their search for a legendary valley 'so full of beaver that they jump right into your traps' in this fanciful adventure.

Director: Richard Lang | Stars: Charlton Heston, Brian Keith, Victoria Racimo, Stephen Macht

Votes: 2,607

15. The Kentuckian (1955)

Passed | 104 min | Drama, Western

A Kentucky widower bound for 1820's Texas with his young son is thwarted in his efforts by a corrupt constable, a long-standing family feud, and a beautiful indentured servant.

Director: Burt Lancaster | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Diana Lynn, Dianne Foster, John McIntire

Votes: 3,111

16. Daniel Boone (1936)

Approved | 75 min | Biography, Drama, Family

In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.

Director: David Howard | Stars: George O'Brien, Heather Angel, John Carradine, Ralph Forbes

Votes: 323

17. Flaming Frontier (1965)

G | 93 min | Adventure, Western

Old Surehand and Old Wabble are trailing a killer, but on the way they also intervene in a dispute between the Comanche and the settlers.

Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Stewart Granger, Pierre Brice, Larry Pennell, Letícia Román

Votes: 1,686

18. Daniel Boone: Frontier Trail Rider (1966)

91 min | Western

Daniel Boone leads a party of settlers into Kentucky to found the town of Boonesborough. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with a lovely, red-haired servant named Rebecca and must vie with the gambler, Jim Santee for her affection.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Fess Parker, Ed Ames, Patricia Blair, Armando Silvestre

Votes: 84

19. Last of the Redmen (1947)

Passed | 79 min | Drama, Western

A retelling of The Last of the Mohicans with just enough changes to qualify for a different title. Major Heyward and Hawk-Eye escort three children of an officer to safety during the French... See full summary »

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Jon Hall, Michael O'Shea, Evelyn Ankers, Julie Bishop

Votes: 187

20. Utah Wagon Train (1951)

Passed | 67 min | Drama, Music, Western

Rancher Rex Allen (Rex Allen) receives a summons from his uncle (Forrest Taylor), an old time frontiersman, that he is in trouble. The uncle has been hired to lead a modern-day band of ... See full summary »

Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Rex Allen, Koko, Penny Edwards, Buddy Ebsen

Votes: 33

21. Kit Carson and the Mountain Men (1977 TV Movie)

90 min | Adventure, Family, Western

The legendary frontiersman and hero of boyhood paperbacks joins forces with Captain John Fremont as chief scout on a secret expedition to Mexico. The disobedient Randy tries to rejoin his ... See full summary »

Stars: Christopher Connelly, Robert Reed, Gary Lockwood, Ike Eisenmann

Votes: 27

22. A Horse Fly Fleas (1947)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A flea befriends a horsefly, who has hooves like those of a horse, and rides the horsefly into the hair of a dog. The flea chops down strands of the dog's hair to use as "logs" with which ... See full summary »

Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 210

23. Fighting Blood (1911)

18 min | Short, Action, Western

An old soldier on the frontier, the father of a dozen children, a staunch patriot himself, brings these children up with rigid military training. He conducts his household as a garrison ... See full summary »

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: George Nichols, Kate Bruce, Robert Harron, Florence La Badie

Votes: 170

24. When the Redskins Rode (1951)

Approved | 78 min | Western

In 1753, during the French and Indian War, Colonel George Washington and frontiersman Christopher Gist hope to persuade the Delaware tribes to join the British side but French spies aim for a contrary outcome.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Jon Hall, Mary Castle, James Seay, John Ridgely

Votes: 143

25. Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness (1926)

Passed | 62 min | Adventure, History, Romance

In pre-revolutionary war days, Daniel Boone captures the white renegade Simon Gerty but lets him go. After Boone moves from North Carolina to homestead in Kentucky, Gerty reappears. This ... See full summary »

Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Roy Stewart, Kathleen Collins, Edward Hearn, Jay Morley

Votes: 19

26. Davy Crockett (1916)

Passed | 50 min | Action, Biography, Western

The story of the famous Tennessee frontiersman, soldier, scout, and Congressman who fought and died at the Alamo.

Director: William Desmond Taylor | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Winifred Kingston, Harry De Vere, Herbert Standing

Votes: 20

27. Jasur (2012)

82 min | Action, Drama

A group of Islamic terrorists take a bus with hostages nearby border of Uzbekistan, but one of passengers manages to call to her husband - captain of frontier guard Jasur. He starts in pursuit of the bus.

Directors: Nazhmiddin Gulyamov, Bahodir Odilov | Stars: Mirolim Qilichev, Jamila Gafurova, Laziz Musaev, Gulxumor Abdullayeva

28. With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail (1926)

Passed | 54 min | Action, History, Romance

Buffalo Bill performs kindnesses for a native American and a runaway slave, and plans to build a new town along a planned train route.

Director: Frank S. Mattison | Stars: Roy Stewart, Kathryn McGuire, Cullen Landis, Sheldon Lewis

Votes: 24

29. Celebrity Playhouse (1955–1956)
Episode: He Knew All About Women (1955)

30 min | Drama

A frontiersman, looking for a wife, falls in love with a high-spirited woman.

Director: Gerald Freedman | Stars: Dan O'Herlihy, Barbara Hale, Paul Richards, Chubby Johnson

30. TopTenz (2010– )
Episode: The Most Remarkable POW Escapes in History (2022)

14 min | Documentary

Throughout history, prisoners of war have sought their freedom by fleeing from their captors, intent on returning to their homes and their duty. Some have escaped from captivity thousands ... See full summary »

Star: Simon Whistler

31. Captivating History (2017– )
Episode: The Legend of Davy Crockett Explained in 12 Minutes (2022)

13 min | Documentary, History

Born to a frontier family struggling to survive. He cultivated his now legendary frontiersman image in his political career which was stymied by enmity with Andrew Jackson. His legendary ... See full summary »

32. Bohéma (2017)
Episode: Dvojí tváre (2017)

TV-PG | 94 min | Biography, Drama, History

Come the 1950's, most people put on their second face - a mask under which some remain silent, others quietly resist, and others use it as a completely new face. The era of two faces has ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Sedlácek | Stars: Michal Dlouhý, Vladimír Javorský, Jaroslav Plesl, Sasa Rasilov

Votes: 8

33. Vegas: The City the Mob Made (2009)
Episode: Las Vegas Before the Mob (2009)

Documentary, Crime, History

Before the Mob made their mark in Las Vegas, the town was a barren one.

Director: Ron Meyer | Stars: Eugene Moehring, Anthony Curtis, Michael Green, Dennis McLatchey