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. 55 new

    3 Bad Men

    1926, in 4 top lists Check
  2. 179 new

    Across the Wide Missouri

    1951, in 1 top list Check
  3. 22 new

    Algie, the Miner

    1912, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 127 new

    Along Came Jones

    1945, in 0 top lists Check
  5. 182 new

    Along the Great Divide

    1951, in 0 top lists Check
  6. 137 new

    Angel and the Badman

    1947, in 0 top lists Check
  7. 255 new

    Backlash

    1956, in 0 top lists Check
  8. 432 new

    The Ballad of Cable Hogue

    1970, in 3 top lists Check
  9. 526 new

    The Ballad of Little Jo

    1993, in 0 top lists Check
  10. 176 new

    The Baron of Arizona

    1950, in 1 top list Check
  11. 444 new

    The Beguiled

    1971, in 3 top lists Check
  12. 276 new

    The Big Country

    1958, in 6 top lists Check
  13. 68 new

    The Big Trail

    1930, in 4 top lists Check
  14. 69 new

    Billy the Kid

    1930, in 0 top lists Check
  15. 547 new

    Brokeback Mountain

    2005, in 21 top lists Check
  16. 168 new

    Broken Arrow

    1950, in 1 top list Check
  17. 132 new

    Canyon Passage

    1946, in 2 top lists Check
  18. 193 new

    Carson City

    1952, in 0 top lists Check
  19. 540 new

    The Claim

    2000, in 0 top lists Check
  20. 47 new

    Clash of the Wolves

    1925, in 1 top list Check
  21. 494 new

    Comes a Horseman

    1978, in 0 top lists Check
  22. 41 new

    The Covered Wagon

    1923, in 4 top lists Check
  23. 93 new

    The Cowboy and the Lady

    1938, in 0 top lists Check
  24. 107 new

    Dark Command

    1940, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 96 new

    Drums Along the Mohawk

    1939, in 0 top lists Check
  26. 133 new

    Duel in the Sun

    1946, in 7 top lists Check
  27. 538 new

    Fah talai jone

    2000 — a.k.a. Tears of the Black Tiger, in 3 top lists Check
  28. 209 new

    The Far Country

    1954, in 1 top list Check
  29. 173 new

    The Furies

    1950, in 3 top lists Check
  30. 248 new

    Giant

    1956, in 10 top lists Check
  31. 299 new

    The Hanging Tree

    1959, in 1 top list Check
  32. 322 new

    Heller in Pink Tights

    1960, in 1 top list Check
  33. 29 new

    Hell's Hinges

    1916, in 5 top lists Check
  34. 534 new

    The Hi-Lo Country

    1998, in 0 top lists Check
  35. 200 new

    Hondo

    1953, in 0 top lists Check
  36. 154 new

    I Shot Jesse James

    1949, in 1 top list Check
  37. 63 new

    In Old Arizona

    1928, in 1 top list Check
  38. 273 new

    Joe Dakota

    1957, in 1 top list Check
  39. 327 new

    The Last Sunset

    1961, in 1 top list Check
  40. 527 new

    Legends of the Fall

    1994, in 2 top lists Check
  41. 462 new

    The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

    1972, in 2 top lists Check
  42. 532 new

    Lone Star

    1996, in 6 top lists Check
  43. 17 new

    The Lonedale Operator

    1911, in 1 top list Check
  44. 412 new

    Mackenna's Gold

    1969, in 0 top lists Check
  45. 149 new

    The Man from Colorado

    1948, in 0 top lists Check
  46. 275 new

    Man of the West

    1958, in 8 top lists Check
  47. 116 new

    The Mark of Zorro

    1940, in 2 top lists Check
  48. 337 new

    McLintock!

    1963, in 0 top lists Check
  49. 84 new

    Oh, Susanna!

    1936, in 1 top list Check
  50. 228 new

    Oklahoma!

    1955, in 5 top lists Check
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