How the West Was Shot: The Evolution of the Western Genre

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This list is a chronological look at the western as a genre. A genre as old as movies themselves, it has gone through many transformations and evolutions.

It aspires to showcase these many variations, starting from the silent era and ending with the Neo-Western, by choosing key films for each venture: Singing Cowboy, Acid Westerns, Ostern, Spaghetti Westerns, Meat Pie Westerns, Revisionist Westerns, Hybrid Westerns, Western Comedies, Superwesterns, etc...

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  1. 547 new

    Brokeback Mountain

    2005, in 21 top lists Check
  2. 198 new

    Shane

    1953, in 18 top lists Check
  3. 145 new

    Red River

    1948, in 16 top lists Check
  4. 61 new

    The Wind

    1928, in 14 top lists Check
  5. 248 new

    Giant

    1956, in 10 top lists Check
  6. 275 new

    Man of the West

    1958, in 8 top lists Check
  7. 77 new

    Ruggles of Red Gap

    1935, in 8 top lists Check
  8. 133 new

    Duel in the Sun

    1946, in 7 top lists Check
  9. 333 new

    Ride the High Country

    1962, in 7 top lists Check
  10. 276 new

    The Big Country

    1958, in 6 top lists Check
  11. 532 new

    Lone Star

    1996, in 6 top lists Check
  12. 29 new

    Hell's Hinges

    1916, in 5 top lists Check
  13. 228 new

    Oklahoma!

    1955, in 5 top lists Check
  14. 55 new

    3 Bad Men

    1926, in 4 top lists Check
  15. 68 new

    The Big Trail

    1930, in 4 top lists Check
  16. 41 new

    The Covered Wagon

    1923, in 4 top lists Check
  17. 138 new

    Pursued

    1947, in 4 top lists Check
  18. 166 new

    Rio Grande

    1950, in 4 top lists Check
  19. 432 new

    The Ballad of Cable Hogue

    1970, in 3 top lists Check
  20. 444 new

    The Beguiled

    1971, in 3 top lists Check
  21. 538 new

    Fah talai jone

    2000 — a.k.a. Tears of the Black Tiger, in 3 top lists Check
  22. 173 new

    The Furies

    1950, in 3 top lists Check
  23. 139 new

    Ramrod

    1947, in 3 top lists Check
  24. 537 new

    Ride with the Devil

    1999, in 3 top lists Check
  25. 132 new

    Canyon Passage

    1946, in 2 top lists Check
  26. 527 new

    Legends of the Fall

    1994, in 2 top lists Check
  27. 462 new

    The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

    1972, in 2 top lists Check
  28. 116 new

    The Mark of Zorro

    1940, in 2 top lists Check
  29. 542 new

    Open Range

    2003, in 2 top lists Check
  30. 315 new

    The Unforgiven

    1960, in 2 top lists Check
  31. 227 new

    Wichita

    1955, in 2 top lists Check
  32. 57 new

    The Winning of Barbara Worth

    1926, in 2 top lists Check
  33. 179 new

    Across the Wide Missouri

    1951, in 1 top list Check
  34. 176 new

    The Baron of Arizona

    1950, in 1 top list Check
  35. 168 new

    Broken Arrow

    1950, in 1 top list Check
  36. 47 new

    Clash of the Wolves

    1925, in 1 top list Check
  37. 209 new

    The Far Country

    1954, in 1 top list Check
  38. 299 new

    The Hanging Tree

    1959, in 1 top list Check
  39. 322 new

    Heller in Pink Tights

    1960, in 1 top list Check
  40. 154 new

    I Shot Jesse James

    1949, in 1 top list Check
  41. 63 new

    In Old Arizona

    1928, in 1 top list Check
  42. 273 new

    Joe Dakota

    1957, in 1 top list Check
  43. 327 new

    The Last Sunset

    1961, in 1 top list Check
  44. 17 new

    The Lonedale Operator

    1911, in 1 top list Check
  45. 84 new

    Oh, Susanna!

    1936, in 1 top list Check
  46. 181 new

    Rawhide

    1951, in 1 top list Check
  47. 357 new

    Il ritorno di Ringo

    1965 — a.k.a. The Return of Ringo, in 1 top list Check
  48. 40 new

    Sky High

    1922, in 1 top list Check
  49. 25 new

    The Squaw Man

    1914, in 1 top list Check
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    Tall in the Saddle

    1944, in 1 top list Check
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