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1894
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Edison films Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show |
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1903
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The Great Train Robbery, Edwin S. Porter—the first Western fiction film
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1910
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Gilbert M. Anderson stars as Broncho Billy in Broncho Billy's Redemption; stars in some further 300 films as the character
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1911
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Thomas Ince begins directing Westerns at Santa Yuez ('Inceville')
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1915-1925
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William S. Hart stars in the Rio Jim series of Westerns
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1923
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The Covered Wagon, James Cruze
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1924
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The Iron Horse, John Ford
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1930
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The Big Trail, Raoul Walsh
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1931
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Cimarron, Wesley Ruggles, wins Best Picture Academy Award (1932)
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1939
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Stagecoach, John Ford
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1941
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They Died with their Boots on, Raoul Walsh
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1942
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The Ox-bow Incident, William Wellman
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1946
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My Darling Clementine, John Ford, a version of the Wyatt Earp story Duel in the Sun, King Vidor
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1950
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Broken Arrow, Delmer Daves Winchester 73, Anthony Mann Rio Grande, John Ford The Gunfighter, Henry King
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1951
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Rawhide, Henry Hathaway
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1952
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The Big Sky, Howard Hawks High Noon, Fred Zinnemann
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1953
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Shane, George Stevens, starring Alan Ladd
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1954
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Johnny Guitar, Nicholas Ray River of No Return, Otto Preminger
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1956
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The Searchers, John Ford
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1958
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Man of the West, Anthony Mann
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1959
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The Hanging Tree, Delmer Daves Warlock, Edward Dmytryk
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1960
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Alamo, John Wayne The Magnificent Seven, John Sturges
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1961
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One-Eyed Jacks, Marlon Brando
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1962
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The Man who Shot Liberty Valance, John Ford Ride the High Country, Sam Peckinpah
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1964
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A Fistful of Dollars, Sergio Leone
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1966
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Sergio Leone
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1969
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, George Roy Hill Once Upon a Time in the West, Sergio Leone True Grit, Henry Hathaway
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1970
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Little Big Man, Arthur Penn, starring Dustin Hoffman
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1971
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McCabe and Mrs Miller, Robert Altman
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1972
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High Plains Drifter, Clint Eastwood
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1974
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Blazing Saddles, Mel Brookes, parody on the Western genre
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1976
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The Shootist, Don Siegel, starring John Wayne
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1980
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Heaven's Gate, Michael Cimino
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1985
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Silverado, Lawrence Kasdan
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1988
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Young Guns, Christopher Cain
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1990
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Dances with Wolves, Kevin Costner, wins seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture (1991)
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1992
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Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood
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1998
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Painted Angels, Jon Sanders
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2005
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Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee
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