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Western Films

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