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1. Dances with Wolves (1990)
PG-13 | 181 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.
Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant
Votes: 290,756 | Gross: $184.21M
2. Blazing Saddles (1974)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Western
In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman
Votes: 152,541 | Gross: $119.50M
3. Wagon Train (1957–1965)
TV-PG | 75 min | Western
Stories of the journeys of a wagon train as it leaves post-Civil War Missouri on its way to California through the plains, deserts, and Rocky Mountains.
Stars: Frank McGrath, Terry Wilson, Robert Horton, John McIntire
Votes: 3,753
4. 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: 6,279 | Gross: $0.51M
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: 37,904 | Gross: $31.56M
6. Winchester '73 (1950)
Passed | 92 min | Action, Drama, Western
A cowboy's obsession with a stolen rifle leads to a bullet-ridden odyssey through the American West.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally
Votes: 21,987
7. Thunderheart (1992)
R | 119 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, Fred Ward
Votes: 17,137 | Gross: $22.66M
8. The Indian Fighter (1955)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Western
A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country unwittingly gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau, Diana Douglas
Votes: 2,884
9. A Man Called Horse (1970)
R | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
In 1825, an English aristocrat is captured by Native Americans. He lives with them and begins to understand their way of life. Eventually, he is accepted as part of the tribe and aspires to become their leader.
Director: Elliot Silverstein | Stars: Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Manu Tupou
Votes: 9,363 | Gross: $1.94M
10. 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: 5,223
11. 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: 6,912
12. 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: 5,294
13. Crossfire Trail (2001 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Drama, Western
Rafe promises a dying friend to look after his wife and 40,000 acre ranch in Wyoming. A powerful businessman wants the ranch and widow by whatever means necessary.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Tom Selleck, Virginia Madsen, Wilford Brimley, David O'Hara
Votes: 3,669
14. Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
Passed | 107 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
The story of the great sharpshooter Annie Oakley, who rose to fame while dealing with her love/professional rival, Frank Butler.
Directors: George Sidney, Busby Berkeley | Stars: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 5,277 | Gross: $8.00M
15. The Tall Men (1955)
Approved | 122 min | Western
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 3,228 | Gross: $12.00M
16. Branded (1965–1966)
30 min | Western
In the 1880s Jason McCord travels the country trying to prove he's no coward. He needs to do this because the military career of this West point graduate came to an end when he was thrown out of the army after being accused of cowardice.
Stars: Chuck Connors, Chuck Hamilton, William Bryant, John Pickard
Votes: 915
17. 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
18. 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
19. Bronco (1958–1962)
60 min | Western
A former confederate soldier wanders the old west, and meets such famous characters as Jesse James, William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Stars: Ty Hardin, Robert Colbert, Clyde Howdy, Mike Road
Votes: 392
20. 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
21. Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Drama, Romance, Western
In 1868 Kansas, a Lakota Sioux warrior stubbornly refuses to free the 2 white women he kidnapped, triggering a war between his tribe and General Custer's rescuing troops.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Janine Turner, Jean Louisa Kelly, Patrick Bergin, William Shockley
Votes: 1,092
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. Gunman's Walk (1958)
Approved | 97 min | Western
A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Kathryn Grant, James Darren
Votes: 2,127
24. Western Union (1941)
Passed | 95 min | History, Western
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore
Votes: 3,279
25. 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: 1,621
26. Yellowstone Kelly (1959)
Approved | 91 min | Western
In 1870s, in the Sioux territory south of the Missouri, trapper and Indian scout Luther Yellowstone Kelly is hired by the army at Fort Buford but runs into trouble with the Sioux.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Clint Walker, Edd Byrnes, John Russell, Ray Danton
Votes: 1,281
27. The Last Hunt (1956)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Western
In 1883 South Dakota, two buffalo hunters start a personal feud over a captured squaw and a stand-off with a Dakota raiding party over some stolen horses.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Lloyd Nolan, Debra Paget
Votes: 1,807
28. 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
29. 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
30. Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983)
PG | 86 min | Drama, Western
When gold is found on Sioux lands, crooked men attempt to provoke the Sioux into a war with the army and the prospectors.
Director: John Hough | Stars: Richard Harris, Michael Beck, Ana De Sade, Vaughn Armstrong
Votes: 707
31. 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: 1,702
32. The Last Frontier (1955)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A trapper and his two partners work as scouts for a remote army fort where they witness an incompetent colonel's decision to throw his small unprepared garrison against Red Cloud's sizable Sioux force.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Victor Mature, Guy Madison, Robert Preston, James Whitmore
Votes: 1,806
33. They Rode West (1954)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Western
A young cavalry doctor, against orders, treats very sick Indians who are forced to stay on unhealthy land, which could lead to a war.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Robert Francis, Donna Reed, May Wynn, Philip Carey
Votes: 705
34. 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: 1,044
35. 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
36. The Savage (1952)
Passed | 95 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A white boy raised by the Sioux must choose sides when the Sioux threaten to go to war against the Whites.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Charlton Heston, Susan Morrow, Peter Hansen, Joan Taylor
Votes: 681
37. Santa Fe Passage (1955)
Passed | 91 min | Western
A disgraced Indian scout and his partner are hired to escort a wagonload of guns through Indian territory.
Director: William Witney | Stars: John Payne, Faith Domergue, Rod Cameron, Slim Pickens
Votes: 527
38. Yakari, a Spectacular Journey (2020)
TV-G | 82 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Little Sioux Yakari sets off to follow the trail of Little Lightning, a mustang. Yakari has a magical encounter with the Great Eagle, his totem animal, who gives him a beautiful feather and the gift of being able to speak with animals.
Directors: Xavier Giacometti, Toby Genkel | Stars: Mia Diekow, Oscar Douieb, Roman Rossa, Oliver Boettcher
Votes: 520
39. The White Squaw (1956)
Approved | 75 min | Western
Faced with heavy opposition from local ranchers, a white Indian woman desperately seeks help for her tribe struggling to survive on a reservation.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: David Brian, May Wynn, William Bishop, Nancy Hale
Votes: 166
40. The Nebraskan (1953)
Approved | 68 min | Drama, Western
Trying to make peace with the Nebraska Sioux leads frontier scout Wade Harper through many perils.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Philip Carey, Roberta Haynes, Wallace Ford, Richard Webb
Votes: 281
41. 3 Bad Men (1926)
Unrated | 122 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
Director: John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Olive Borden, Lou Tellegen, Tom Santschi
Votes: 1,501
42. Run of the Arrow (1957)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Western
When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when the Sioux go to war against the U.S. Army.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Rod Steiger, Sara Montiel, Brian Keith, Ralph Meeker
Votes: 2,421
43. The Legend of Walks Far Woman (1980 TV Movie)
111 min | Drama, Western
A woman kills her husband after he becomes violently abusive following a concussion. The tribe then banishes her from the community.
Director: Mel Damski | Stars: Raquel Welch, Bradford Dillman, George Clutesi, Nick Mancuso
Votes: 268
44. Saskatchewan (1954)
Approved | 87 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
In 1877 Western Canada, a police inspector revolts against his inept commander, taking a safer route to the U.S. border in order to stop invading hostile Indians.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters, J. Carrol Naish, Hugh O'Brian
Votes: 1,171
45. 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
46. Chief Crazy Horse (1955)
Approved | 86 min | Biography, Drama, Western
This biography of the famous Lakota Sioux war chief is told entirely from the Indian viewpoint.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Victor Mature, Suzan Ball, John Lund, Ray Danton
Votes: 693
47. 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: 1,649
48. 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
49. 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: 1,376
50. 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