From The Searchers to Tombstone, these Western classics have had such a profound impact on cinema that their legacies can ...

Sitting through an old Western* can sometimes be tougher than a two-dollar steak. After all, historical myths — often glorifying lawlessness and gunfire — get baked right into the storytelling. But ...

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Few film genres capture both the beauty and brutality of the human experience more so than the Western. For as long as people have been making movies, acclaimed directors like John Ford, Sergio Leone, ...

There was a time when you couldn’t flip on the TV or buy a movie ticket without running into a cowboy. Westerns were everywhere, filling Saturday matinees at the local movie theater, dominating ...

One fan said the Old West classic "perfectly captures the essence of the genre, complete with gunfights, horseback chases, ...

The Western genre is one of the oldest and cherished film genres to ever enter the landscape of cinema and successfully transitioned into the Talkies, only growing immensely popular among movie goers.

Of the many genres in cinema, none is as distinctively American as the Western. Typically set in the American frontier during the mid to late 1800s, the Western is crucial to the very fabric of ...

Everyone loves to root for the outlaw in some of the best Westerns of all time, right? One of the great things about the genre is that usually the lines are clear, there are good guys and bad guys.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Rio Bravo, The Searchers, and more make up our list of the most universally loved Western ...