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1. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)

PG | 105 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Security guard Larry Daley infiltrates the Smithsonian Institution in order to rescue Jedediah and Octavius, who have been shipped to the museum by mistake.

Director: Shawn Levy | Stars: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria

Votes: 212,922 | Gross: $177.24M

2. They Died with Their Boots On (1941)

Approved | 140 min | War, Western

A highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin

Votes: 6,914

3. 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: 37,924 | Gross: $31.56M

4. The White Buffalo (1977)

PG | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Western

At the closing of 1874 a haunted, dying Wild Bill Hickok teams up with a grieving Crazy Horse to hunt a murderous albino buffalo.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson, Kim Novak

Votes: 5,229

5. The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)

PG | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The sole surviving Texas Ranger (Klinton Spilsbury) of an ambush arranged by outlaw leader Major Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish (Christopher Lloyd) returns to fight back as a great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger.

Director: William A. Fraker | Stars: Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse, Christopher Lloyd, Matt Clark

Votes: 2,525 | Gross: $12.62M

6. Crazy Horse (1996 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 90 min | Action, Biography, Drama

The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.

Director: John Irvin | Stars: Michael Greyeyes, Victor Aaron, Nathaniel Arcand, Frankie Avina

Votes: 519

7. Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, War, Western

In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan

Votes: 4,160

8. 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: 1,622

9. 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

10. 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, Greg Shadetree Falcon

Votes: 10

11. Buffalo Girls (1995)

180 min | Drama, Western

Follows the life of the heroine of the Wild West: Calamity Jane and her best friend Dora Du Fran who runs a brothel.

Stars: Anjelica Huston, Melanie Griffith, Gabriel Byrne, Peter Coyote

Votes: 959

12. 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: 2,431

13. Sitting Bull (1954)

Approved | 105 min | Drama, Western

A cavalry officer sympathetic to the wronged Sioux fixes a meeting between Chief Sitting Bull and President Grant but a dishonest Indian Agent and a hateful General Custer test the Sioux's patience, threatening to derail the peace-talks.

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Dale Robertson, Mary Murphy, J. Carrol Naish, John Litel

Votes: 897 | Gross: $1.50M

14. Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher (2021)

TV-14 | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History

A remarkable story inspired by the life of renowned Chickasaw cattleman Montford T. Johnson, a man who overcame great hardships to establish a ranching empire along the famous cattle highway of the American West, the Chisolm Trail.

Director: Nathan Frankowski | Stars: Martin Sensmeier, Dermot Mulroney, Tommy Flanagan, James Landry Hébert

Votes: 1,003

15. Battle of Little Bighorn (2020)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, Action, Biography

The U.S. expands westward after the Civil War displacing the last of the free-roaming Native Americans onto Reservations. This show focuses special attention on General George A. Custer and... See full summary »

Director: Molly Hermann | Stars: Steve Alexander, Kirk Chapman, Ron Glasgow, Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas

Votes: 107

16. Custer (1967)

60 min | Western

In 1868, after the Civil War, Custer takes charge of a mix of ex-Confederates and criminals, the 7th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hays, Kansas.

Stars: Wayne Maunder, Slim Pickens, Michael Dante, Robert F. Simon

Votes: 152

17. Bugles in the Afternoon (1952)

Approved | 85 min | Drama, Western

After violently attacking a fellow officer Lt. Edward Garnett, cavalry Captain Kern Shafter is court martialled. Later, he rejoins the army with Custer's regiment at Fort Lincoln, Dakota, becoming a sergeant, where he runs into his old foe.

Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Ray Milland, Helena Carter, Hugh Marlowe, Forrest Tucker

Votes: 466

18. Warpath (1951)

Passed | 95 min | Western

John Vickers joins Custer's cavalry regiment seeking private revenge.

Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Dean Jagger, Forrest Tucker, Harry Carey Jr.

Votes: 522

19. Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974)

108 min | Comedy, Western

A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.

Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret

Votes: 954

20. Time Machine: Little Big Horn - The Untold Story (2001 TV Movie)

Documentary, Biography, History

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Stars: Steve Alexander, Joe Desson, Ron Garritson, Paul Hauser

Votes: 12

21. Tonka (1958)

Approved | 97 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The remarkable and ironical story of a wild colt that changes owners around the time of the Great Sioux War of 1876.

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Sal Mineo, Philip Carey, Jerome Courtland, H.M. Wynant

Votes: 513

22. Badlands of Dakota (1941)

Approved | 74 min | Western

Indian raids are being perpetrated by an outlaw gang in disguise.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Robert Stack, Ann Rutherford, Richard Dix, Frances Farmer

Votes: 267

23. The Great Sioux Massacre (1965)

Approved | 91 min | Action, Biography, Drama

A somewhat different take on Custer's motivation that changed him from a defender of Native-American rights into a politically-driven, headline-seeker chastiser of the Sioux during the 1870s.

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Darren McGavin, Philip Carey, Julie Sommars

Votes: 709

24. The Last Frontier (1932)

Passed | 213 min | Drama, Western

A frontier newspaper editor Kirby battles outlaw Tiger Morris who is causing indian uprisings to drive away settlers so that he will can claim a gold deposit as his own. With the help of ... See full summary »

Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Storey | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Dorothy Gulliver, Francis X. Bushman Jr., William Desmond

Votes: 76

25. The Great Indian Wars 1540-1890 (1991– )

235 min | Documentary

The year 1540 was a crucial turning point in American history. The Great Indian Wars were incited by Francisco Vazquez de Coronado when his expedition to the Great Plains launched the ... See full summary »

Stars: Gary Stewart, Alphonse Keasley, Steve Alexander

Votes: 66

26. The Legend of Custer (1968)

94 min | Drama, Western

Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer has been reinstated and assigned to command the 7th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hays. The regiment has become a ragtag outfit of thieves and ruffians and ... See full summary »

Directors: Norman Foster, Sam Wanamaker | Stars: Wayne Maunder, Slim Pickens, Michael Dante, Robert F. Simon

Votes: 116

27. The World Changes (1933)

Passed | 91 min | Drama, Romance

An ambitious farmer becomes a pioneer in the meat-packing business, finding financial success but private disappointment over the course of many decades.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Mary Astor, Aline MacMahon, Donald Cook

Votes: 527

28. Legends of the West (1992)

PG-13 | 88 min | Documentary, History

Host Jack Palance looks how Hollywood has depicted Western legends like George Armstrong Custer, Billy the Kid, Crazy Horse, and the O.K. Corral.

Director: John 'Bud' Cardos | Stars: Jack Palance, Brooke Shields, Cody Palance, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman

Votes: 23

29. The Flaming Frontier (1926)

Passed | 90 min | Drama, Western

Bob Langdon, a young Pony Express rider, is given an appointment to West Point, but is forced to leave the academy as the result of political intrigue stirred up by enemies of his friend, ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Anne Cornwall, Dustin Farnum, Ward Crane

Votes: 29

30. Winning the West (1946)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Western

In the Old West, Mighty Mouse saves the mouse-settlers from feline Indians.

Director: Eddie Donnelly | Stars: Sid Raymond, Ken Schoen

Votes: 39

31. Contested Ground (2016)

Not Rated | 47 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

Apocalypse at the Little Bighorn, Custer's final battle.

Director: Chris Hoffert | Stars: Steve Adelson, Todd Baker, Tyler Barnicoat, Justin Carpenter

Votes: 15

32. Biography (1987– )
Episode: George Armstrong Custer: America's Golden Cavalier (1997)

TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History

From his Civil War triumphs to the fateful battle that sealed his place in history, this is the tumultuous tale of one of America's truly mythic figures.

Stars: Steve Alexander, Louise Barnett, Sitting Bull, Gregory Casteel

Votes: 107

33. Cheyenne (1955–1963)
Episode: Gold, Glory and Custer - Prelude (1960)

TV-G | 60 min | Western

Cheyenne guides a party led by Lt. Colonel George A. Custer into the Black Hills owned by the Sioux which has been forbidden by treaty to survey for a fort location. There's rumors this expedition may be looking for something else - Gold.

Director: George Waggner | Stars: Clint Walker, Julie Adams, Liam Sullivan, Barry Atwater

Votes: 93

34. The Time Tunnel (1966–1967)
Episode: Massacre (1966)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Doug and Tony are transported to the summer of 1876 and witness soldiers slaughtered by Indians in the middle of the desert. They are hunted and captured by three Indians; however Doug is ... See full summary »

Director: Murray Golden | Stars: James Darren, Robert Colbert, Joe Maross, Christopher Dark

Votes: 203

35. The Wild West (2006– )
Episode: Custer's Last Stand (2007)

TV-PG | 49 min | Biography, Drama, History

Talking heads and documentary style narration combine with reenactment of Custer's last stand. In 1876 Lakota and Cheyenne tribes fled the reservations,taking guns given them for hunting ... See full summary »

Director: David Stewart | Stars: Toby Stephens, David Enemy Shoots at Him, Alan Cox, Stephen Billington

Votes: 21

36. America: Facts vs. Fiction (2013– )
Episode: Last Man Standing (2014)

TV-PG | 23 min | Documentary, History

The true stories of the Alamo and Custer's Last Stand are very different from the way we remember them. Find out how Davy Crockett really died - and why General Custer might have been ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin R. Hershberger | Stars: Guy Gane, Shaun Irving, Jamie Kaler, Todd Kern

Votes: 13

37. Legends & Lies (2015– )
Episode: George Custer: A General's Reckoning (2015)

Documentary, Biography, History

A profile of George Armstrong Custer, a Civil War commander in the Union Army, who later died at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876.

Director: Kevin R. Hershberger | Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Dermot Mulroney, Bradley Barnett, Jesse Birster

Votes: 23

38. The Big Muddy (2017– )
Episode: Indian Gold (2017)

Western

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Director: Chris Hoffert | Stars: Otis Anderson, Todd Baker, Tyler Barnicoat, Barry Bergman

39. Mysteries at the Museum (2010– )
Episode: Battle of Little Bighorn: Mysteries at the Museum Specials (2018)

TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography

Don Wildman climbs onto the saddle to investigate what really happened on the day of the biggest defeat in US military history. He highlights the iconic figures who took part and examines the legacy of this infamous encounter.

Stars: Steve Adelson, Steve Alexander, Gregory Casteel, Ron Glasgow

Votes: 11