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1. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Passed | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett

Votes: 132,817 | Gross: $5.01M

2. The Hanging Tree (1959)

Approved | 107 min | Western

Unusual western about a doctor with a dark past, whose life is complicated and ultimately redeemed by a young thief, and a pretty Swiss immigrant whom he nurses back to health.

Directors: Delmer Daves, Karl Malden, Vincent Sherman | Stars: Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden, George C. Scott

Votes: 4,785

3. 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: 7,919 | Gross: $2.17M

4. The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)

Approved | 128 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A poor, uneducated mountain girl leaves her cabin in search of respect, a wealthy husband, and a better life in this fictionalized biopic of Margaret "Molly" Brown, who survived the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic.

Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Jack Kruschen

Votes: 4,275 | Gross: $13.17M

5. 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: 1,627

6. Grizzly Mountain (1995)

G | 96 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Present-day Portland suburbs kids Dylan and Nicole go on the camping trip with their family, and when they enter a mysterious cave in the mountains, they're transported back in time to 1870, where they meet mountain man Jeremiah.

Director: Jeremy Haft | Stars: Dan Haggerty, Dylan Haggerty, Nicole Lund, Kim Morgan Greene

Votes: 304 | Gross: $0.34M

7. Sutter's Gold (1936)

Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

Director: James Cruze | Stars: Edward Arnold, Lee Tracy, Binnie Barnes, Katharine Alexander

Votes: 140

8. Girl Rush (1944)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Western, Musical

Two unsuccessful vaudeville entertainers decide to search for gold during the California gold rush in 1849. They come to a town where no woman lives. The dwellers of this town promise them ... See full summary »

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Frances Langford, Barbara Jo Allen

Votes: 268

9. The Naked Hills (1956)

Approved | 72 min | Western

In 1849, an Indiana farmer develops a life-long gold fever and an obsession with finding the 'mother lode' in the Californian hills.

Director: Josef Shaftel | Stars: David Wayne, Keenan Wynn, James Barton, Marcia Henderson

Votes: 243

10. Alaska (1944)

Approved | 76 min | Drama, Western

A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who is secretly running a murderous claim-jumping gang.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Kent Taylor, Margaret Lindsay, John Carradine, Dean Jagger

Votes: 80

11. Thunder Trail (1937)

Approved | 58 min | Drama, Western

A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the bandits' leader to justice.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Gilbert Roland, Charles Bickford, Marsha Hunt, J. Carrol Naish

Votes: 88

12. The Last Frontier (1926)

Passed | 80 min | Western

Impoverished by the Civil War and eager to replenish his fortune in the West, Colonel Halliday, his wife, and his daughter, Beth, proceed toward Salina, Kansas by wagon train, at the ... See full summary »

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: William Boyd, Marguerite De La Motte, Jack Hoxie, J. Farrell MacDonald

Votes: 25

13. Nevada Badmen (1951)

Approved | 58 min | Western

Cowhands Whip Wilson (Whip Wilson), Texas (Fuzzy Knight) and Jim Bannon (Jim Bannon) are heading for a California vacation when Jim gets a letter from his brother, Bob (Kenne Duncan), ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Whip Wilson, Fuzzy Knight, Jim Bannon, I. Stanford Jolley

Votes: 26

14. Ponjola (1923)

Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Drama

The adventures of a beautiful gallant girl ,Flavia Desmond (Anna Q. Nilsson), who goes into the African veldt of the Rhodesan gold fields to save the soul of a man, Lundi Druro (James ... See full summary »

Director: Donald Crisp | Stars: Anna Q. Nilsson, James Kirkwood, Tully Marshall, Joseph Kilgour

Votes: 21

15. The Last Round-Up (1934)

Approved | 61 min | Western

Jack Kells's bandit gang, the Border Legion, is run out of a mining town and regroups in Utah. News of a gold strike in Arizona City leads the gang there, and they execute stagecoach ... See full summary »

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Randolph Scott, Barbara Fritchie, Monte Blue, Fred Kohler

Votes: 44

16. The Crooked Trail (1936)

Passed | 60 min | Western

Jim Blake rescues criminal Hare Talton and Good Samaritan Estaban Solano from dehydration and death and tries to rehabilitate Harve by taking him in as partner in his gold strike.

Director: S. Roy Luby | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Lucile Browne, John Merton, Charles King

Votes: 112

17. Untamed Heiress (1954)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Western

Walter Martin and Eddie Taylor are a couple of theatrical agents, and they receive a visit from Andrew "Cactus" Clayton, who is looking for Effie Canova, who grub-staked him years ago. He ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Judy Canova, Don 'Red' Barry, George Cleveland, Taylor Holmes

Votes: 37

18. The Thundering West (1939)

Approved | 57 min | Drama, Music, Western

Outlaws Dale and Tucson quit Wolf's gang. Just as the two are about to rob the stage, Wolf and his gang beat them to it. Dale breaks it up saving the money and this gets him appointed ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Nelson | Stars: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Sons of the Pioneers, Dick Curtis

Votes: 11

19. Trail of the Silver Spurs (1941)

Approved | 57 min | Drama, Western

The Range Busters are investigating a gold robbery from the Denver Mint in a supposedly deserted Arizona ghost town, but they soon find they're not the only town resident with a nose for gold.

Director: S. Roy Luby | Stars: Ray Corrigan, John 'Dusty' King, Max Terhune, I. Stanford Jolley

Votes: 90

20. The Flaming Forties (1924)

Passed | 60 min | Western

A young cowhand befriends a disreputable gambler and pulls him out of some trouble. Hoping to square things with his new friend, the gambler seeks to warn him about the cowhand's fiancée, about whom the gambler knows some unsavory details.

Director: Tom Forman | Stars: Harry Carey, William Bailey, Jacqueline Gadsdon, Jim Mason

21. Ghost City (1932)

Passed | 60 min | Western

Newspaper editor Bill Temple arrives in Boom Town planning to expose Jim Blane as a crook. When Blane's henchman Buck fails to kill Temple, Blane prepares to flee with his money. But a ... See full summary »

Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Bill Cody, Andy Shuford, Helen Foster, Walter Miller

Votes: 30

22. Rock-Hound Magoo (1957)

Approved | 6 min | Animation, Family, Short

The near-sighted Mr. Magoo somehow or another is a nugget-happy prospector out west. In addition to mistaking a gold rock for a rain cloud, he meets an old prospect and accuses him of claim-jumping. Together, they actually discover gold.

Director: Pete Burness | Stars: Jim Backus, Earl Bennett

Votes: 30

23. Mine Your Business! (1927)

Not Rated | 20 min | Comedy, Western, Short

A white man disguises himself as a black man in order to get a job in the city shining shoes. He later travels out west, and gets mixed up with a gold mine and claim-jumpers.

Director: John Tansey | Stars: Fred Parker, Teddy Reavis, George Tyron, Bob Harrington

Votes: 18

24. As the Sun Went Down (1919)

50 min | Western

Although a female, gunfighter "Colonel Billy" is feared by the men of Rattlesnake Gulch, a mining camp in California. The women, however, won't have anything to do with her because of ... See full summary »

Director: E. Mason Hopper | Stars: Edith Storey, Lew Cody, Harry Northrup, William Brunton

Votes: 11

25. The Wilderness Woman (1926)

Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

"Kodiak" MacLean, after years of gold prospecting in the Alaskan Klondike, finally strikes it rich and hits a million-dollar bonanza. His daughter, Juneau, immediately thinks it is time to ... See full summary »

Director: Howard Higgin | Stars: Aileen Pringle, Lowell Sherman, Chester Conklin, Henry Vibart

Votes: 36

26. Men in the Raw (1923)

Passed | 50 min | Action, Western

"Windy" Watkins is fond of spinning wild stories of his daring exploits, to his fellow cowhands, while around the campfire at night but is given the chance to prove he is more than talk ... See full summary »

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Jack Hoxie, Marguerite Clayton, Sid Jordan, J. Morris Foster

27. Across the Pacific (1914)

50 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

The Escott family, on their way to Montana, is attacked by Indians. Army Lt. Joe Lanier afterwards finds little Elsie Escott, the only survivor, and brings her to his mother, who takes in ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin Carewe | Stars: Dorothy Dalton, Samuel E. Hines, Millar, Barbara Tennant

Votes: 27

28. Days of '49 (1924)

Passed | Western, Adventure, Action

The 15-chapter plot follows, in a fanciful manner, the General Fremont expedition into Spanish California to acquire California for the United States, and the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill.

Director: Jacques Jaccard | Stars: Neva Gerber, Edmund Cobb, Charles Brinley, Wilbur McGaugh

Votes: 22

29. Annie Oakley (1954–1957)
Episode: Grubstake Bank (1956)

Not Rated | 30 min | Western

After years of fruitless prospecting, old Scissorbill Childers finally strikes it rich and decides to use his new-found wealth to open a bank to grubstake other prospectors who are ... See full summary »

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Gail Davis, Jimmy Hawkins, Brad Johnson, Raymond Hatton

Votes: 12

30. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: Six Feet of Gold (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

Bat spots Lisa Truex in Deadwood who stole $2000 from him. Bat wants to collect but Lisa's boyfriend runs the town. She sells Bat an acre of land she owns that appears to be worthless but Bat finds a way to profit from it if he lives.

Director: Walter Doniger | Stars: Gene Barry, James Coburn, Carol Ohmart, Ron Foster

Votes: 50

31. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Gold Country (1977)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

When a particularly rainy growing season in Walnut Grove destroys any hope of a harvest the Ingalls and the Edwards families set out on a 400 mile trip to the Dakota gold fields, hoping to ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 326

32. The New Addams Family (1998–1999)
Episode: Addams Family Feud (1999)

TV-Y7 | 24 min | Comedy, Family, Horror

The McAddams branch of the family visits to end a long-standing feud with the Addamses, but a large nugget of gold found in the Addams cemetery soon gives them reason to start a whole new feud.

Director: Jim Kaufman | Stars: Glenn Taranto, Ellie Harvie, Brody Smith, Nicole Fugere

Votes: 16

33. The Restless Gun (1957–1959)
Episode: Hiram Grover's Strike (1958)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Near Clay City, Bonner stops two bullies who are trying to force an old prospector to reveal the location of the gold he believes he has found. The old man has a history of claiming to have... See full summary »

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: John Payne, Will Wright, Trevor Bardette, Lane Bradford

Votes: 24

34. Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1962)
Episode: The Walking Mountain (1958)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

When Wells Fargo is accused of stealing high grade gold ore from the Walking Mountain mine's wagons, Hardie is sent to the mine to investigate after another Wells Fargo investigator is killed in a mine accident after two days on the job.

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Dale Robertson, Claude Akins, Dick Wessel, Robert Anderson

Votes: 61

35. Centennial (1978–1979)
Episode: The Yellow Apron (1978)

TV-PG | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In the early 1800s, French-Canadian trapper Pasquinel lives in the Rockies with Clay Basket and has children with her; he later travels to St. Louis to visit his wife Lise who is raising their daughter.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Carrera, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Conrad

Votes: 148

36. Centennial (1978–1979)
Episode: For as Long as the Waters Flow (1978)

TV-PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Levi Zendt partners with Alexander McKeag and opens a trading post; later he assists in a historical treaty between the U.S. and the Indian Nations that soon falls apart.

Director: Paul Krasny | Stars: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Barbara Carrera, Richard Chamberlain

Votes: 135

37. Trail of History (2016– )
Episode: North Carolina Gold (2020)

27 min | History

The discovery of gold in North Carolina redefined the region and brought industry and wealth to the Charlotte area. Although mining operations ceased to be profitable by the early 20th ... See full summary »

Stars: Jason Terzis, Arielle Trent, Levi Trent, Andy Bobyarchick