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1. Tom Horn (1980)

R | 98 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An ex-army scout is hired by ranchers to kill cattle rustlers but he gets into trouble with the corrupt local officials when he's suspected of killing a boy.

Director: William Wiard | Stars: Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush

Votes: 5,926 | Gross: $9.68M

2. The Indian Fighter (1955)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Western

A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country unwittingly gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau, Diana Douglas

Votes: 2,889

3. Apache (1954)

Passed | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Refusing to let himself be re-settled on a Florida reservation, Massai, an Apache warrior, escapes his captors and returns to his homeland to become a peaceful farmer.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, John McIntire, Charles Bronson

Votes: 4,906 | Gross: $6.00M

4. Comanche (1956)

Approved | 87 min | Drama, Western

Common efforts of the U.S. government and the Comanche nation to negotiate a peace treaty are sabotaged by renegade Indians and by the short-sighted Indian Commissioner (Lowell Gilmore).

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Kent Smith, Nestor Paiva, Henry Brandon

Votes: 714

5. The First Texan (1956)

Approved | 82 min | Biography, History, Western

Eastern lawyer Sam Houston moves to Texas. At the request of President Jackson, he leads the Texan independence movement and wins the decisive battle against the Mexican army to gain Texas independence.

Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Joel McCrea, Felicia Farr, Jeff Morrow, Wallace Ford

Votes: 602

6. Hondo (1967)

60 min | Western

Hondo, an embittered former rebel officer, travels to Arizona Territory in the 1870s with his dog Sam. Often clashing with the local cavalry, which he holds responsible for the death of his Indian wife.

Stars: Ralph Taeger, Kathie Browne, Noah Beery Jr., Gary Clarke

Votes: 273

7. A Distant Trumpet (1964)

Approved | 117 min | Drama, Western

West Point graduate Lt. Hazard is posted to Fort Delivery, Arizona, where he has to deal with lax discipline, romantic complications, Apaches and his conflicting feelings toward the Indians.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Diane McBain, James Gregory

Votes: 1,111

8. The Brigand of Kandahar (1965)

Not Rated | 81 min | Adventure, History

The British army fights off rampaging locals in 1850s India.

Director: John Gilling | Stars: Ronald Lewis, Oliver Reed, Duncan Lamont, Yvonne Romain

Votes: 648

9. Mr. Horn (1979)

180 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

The story of frontiersman Tom Horn, and his career as a cavalry scout, a tracker, a range detective, and the final events in his life that led to his tragic death.

Stars: David Carradine, Richard Widmark, Karen Black, Richard Masur

Votes: 188

10. Valley of the Sun (1942)

Passed | 78 min | Drama, Western

In the Arizona Territory of 1868, a fugitive army scout and a crooked Indian Agent lock horns over the treatment of the cheated Natives and over the affections of a local beauty.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Lucille Ball, James Craig, Cedric Hardwicke, Dean Jagger

Votes: 427

11. Geronimo (1939)

Passed | 89 min | Western

The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.

Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Preston Foster, Ellen Drew, Andy Devine, William Henry

Votes: 174

12. Kill Cavalry (2021)

80 min | War

U.S. General Hudson Kilpatrick is known to many as "Kill Cavalry," not for the number of enemy troops he has killed, but his own, due to brash decisions that lead to heavy Federal casualties.

Director: Christopher Forbes | Stars: Jerry Chesser, Brad Owens, Jezibell Anat, Joseph Zuchowski

Votes: 120

13. Thunder Pass (1954)

76 min | Drama, Western

A cavalry unit escorts a group of civilians through dangerous territory inhabited by Indians on the warpath.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Dane Clark, Dorothy Patrick, Andy Devine, Raymond Burr

Votes: 133

14. The Devil Horse (1926)

Passed | 68 min | Drama, Western

A boy's family is wiped out in an Indian massacre of a wagon train and he is captured. He befriends a wild colt. Years later, following his escape, he is recaptured by Indians who force him... See full summary »

Director: Fred Jackman | Stars: Rex, Yakima Canutt, Gladys McConnell, Bob Kortman

Votes: 65

15. Battle Flame (1959)

Approved | 78 min | Drama, War

The trials and tribulations of a platoon of U.S. Marines, led by 1st Lt. Frank Davis, during the Korean War.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Scott Brady, Elaine Edwards, Robert Blake, Wayne Heffley

Votes: 54

16. The Flaming Frontier (1926)

Passed | 90 min | Drama, Western

Bob Langdon, a young Pony Express rider, is given an appointment to West Point, but is forced to leave the academy as the result of political intrigue stirred up by enemies of his friend, ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Anne Cornwall, Dustin Farnum, Ward Crane

Votes: 29

17. Prairie Thunder (1937)

Passed | 55 min | Drama, Music, Western

To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad. When Lynch sells rifles to the Indians, Rod Farrell ... See full summary »

Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Dick Foran, Janet Shaw, Smoke, Frank Orth

Votes: 113

18. Blazing the Overland Trail (1956)

Approved | 239 min | Western

Rance Devlin intends to build his own empire in the American west using his Black Raiders and allied Indians. Only US Army scout Tom Bridger, allied with Pony Express rider Ed Marr and cavalry officer Captain Frank Carter, can stop him.

Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Lee Roberts, Dennis Moore, Norma Brooks, Gregg Barton

Votes: 26

19. Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951–1958)
Episode: Indian Bureau Story (1951)

25 min | Family, Western

Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles are ordered to break up a gang of cattle rustlers. The agent for the Osage Indians' reservation has been murdered and the local cattlemen are accusing the tribe... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Guy Madison, Andy Devine, Raymond Hatton, Monte Blue

Votes: 9

20. Bronco (1958–1962)
Episode: Apache Treasure (1960)

60 min | Western

Army scout Bronco is to find out who's been killing and scalping Apache men, woman, and children. The chief's brother was among the last victims, and Bronco must find the guilty parties before the peace treaty is broken and war breaks out.

Director: Robert B. Sinclair | Stars: Ty Hardin, Buddy Ebsen, Mort Mills, Chad Everett

Votes: 30

21. Hondo (1967)
Episode: Hondo and the Comancheros (1967)

47 min | Western

When Angie Dow is kidnapped and held hostage by a band of Hispanic outlaws, the Comancheros, led by lustful and arrogant ringleader, Rodrigo, Hondo must gather enough money to pay the ... See full summary »

Director: Michael D. Moore | Stars: Ralph Taeger, Kathie Browne, Noah Beery Jr., Gary Clarke

Votes: 23

22. The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961)
Episode: Justice (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Two Cheyennes have been killed, which can start a new Indian war. The Cheyenne chief plans to attack Dodge City for revenge. Wyatt Earp has no other choice but bring the killers who were scratched by the Cheyenne woman to justice.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Hugh O'Brian, Mason Alan Dinehart, Rico Alaniz, Rodd Redwing

Votes: 43

23. Wichita Town (1959–1960)
Episode: The Legend of Tom Horn (1960)

30 min | Western

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