Just like the greatest films of any major, foundational genre, the best Westerns ever made are a mix of conventions executed at their peak, classic tropes being subverted to break genre boundaries ...

From Golden Age classics to B-movie pulp, John Ford to Quentin Tarantino, here are 25 films that will make you long for days when men were men, women rode horses and saloons were all the rage.

The success of Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars created a whole posse of imitators: violent, cheaply made Spaghetti Westerns. The most iconic – and among the most wantonly vicious – is ...

one of the most aesthetically beautiful Westerns ever made. A restored version was shown at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. 16. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959) John Wayne’s sheriff faces an ...

Legendary Western director John Ford had an extremely long and productive relationship with one actor at the start of their careers, and they ended up making 25 films together in just four years.

one of the most aesthetically beautiful Westerns ever made. A restored version was shown at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. John Wayne’s sheriff faces an army of bad guys with only a drunk, a young ...