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1. The Stalking Moon (1968)
G | 109 min | Drama, Western
U.S. Army soldiers round up a group of Apache, mostly women and children. Surprisingly, they find among them a white woman and her half-Apache son.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Forster, Noland Clay
Votes: 3,180
2. Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, History, Western
The story of the Apache chief and his armed resistance to the U.S. Government's subjugation of his people.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Wes Studi
Votes: 13,503 | Gross: $18.64M
3. Duel at Diablo (1966)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Indian wife, and a housewife abandons her husband in order to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: James Garner, Sidney Poitier, Bibi Andersson, Dennis Weaver
Votes: 4,267
4. Kit Carson (1940)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, Western
Indian fighter, trapper and frontier scout Kit Carson leads a wagon train of settlers from Fort Bridger, along the Oregon Trail through Shoshone territory, to California which plans to secede from Mexico.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Jon Hall, Lynn Bari, Dana Andrews, Harold Huber
Votes: 624
5. 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: 2,887
6. Apache Ambush (1955)
68 min | Western
After the Civil War, government envoys organize a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas but Mexican bandits and Apache renegades plan to steal the cattle and a secret shipment of Henry repeating rifles.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Bill Williams, Richard Jaeckel, Alex Montoya, Movita
Votes: 229
7. Winterhawk (1975)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Western
In 1845 Montana, a Blackfoot Chief tries to buy a cure for his tribe's smallpox infection, but the white settlers are unsympathetic, forcing the Indian Chief to resort to desperate measures.
Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Leif Erickson, Woody Strode, Denver Pyle, L.Q. Jones
Votes: 627
8. The Glory Guys (1965)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance, Western
What could be worse for two cavalry officers than to battle with native tribes? To battle each other for the same woman.
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Tom Tryon, Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, James Caan
Votes: 1,016
9. Western Union (1941)
Passed | 95 min | History, Western
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore
Votes: 3,281
10. California (1947)
Passed | 97 min | Western
Epic account of how California became a state, featuring a wagon train, the Gold Rush, a wicked saloon queen, and an evil profiteer.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, Barry Fitzgerald, George Coulouris
Votes: 1,094
11. The Last Frontier (1955)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A trapper and his two partners work as scouts for a remote army fort where they witness an incompetent colonel's decision to throw his small unprepared garrison against Red Cloud's sizable Sioux force.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Victor Mature, Guy Madison, Robert Preston, James Whitmore
Votes: 1,807
12. Arrow in the Dust (1954)
Approved | 79 min | Western
A cavalry deserter risks his life to warn and protect a wagon train from an impending Indian attack.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Keith Larsen, Tom Tully
Votes: 510
13. Tomahawk (1951)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Western
In 1866 Wyoming, a frontier scout tries to prevent a war between the Sioux and the U.S. after the Army builds a road and a fort on territory previously ceded to the Sioux by treaty.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Van Heflin, Yvonne De Carlo, Alex Nicol, Preston Foster
Votes: 1,046
14. Ambush (1950)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Western
In 1878, Ward Kinsman, a prospector and Indian scout, is persuaded by the US Cavalry to find Mary Carlyle, the daughter of a general, who has been taken by Apaches.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Robert Taylor, John Hodiak, Arlene Dahl, Don Taylor
Votes: 873
15. Pillars of the Sky (1956)
Approved | 95 min | Action, Western
In 1868 Oregon, after the Army violates the treaty by building a road across the reservation, several tribal chiefs decide to unite their forces against the trespassing whites.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Dorothy Malone, Ward Bond, Keith Andes
Votes: 770
16. Fighting with Kit Carson (1933)
Passed | 250 min | Western
A pack train led by Kit Carson is attacked by Kraft and his Mystery Riders, who want a government shipment of gold carried by the wagons. Matt Fargo manages to hide the gold, but Carson ... See full summary »
Directors: Colbert Clark, Armand Schaefer | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Betsy King Ross, Noah Beery, Noah Beery Jr.
Votes: 78
17. Frontier Rangers (1959)
83 min | Adventure
Major Robert Rogers and his Rangers hunt a French and Indian War spy.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Keith Larsen, Buddy Ebsen, Don Burnett, Lisa Gaye
Votes: 146
18. Fort Osage (1952)
Approved | 72 min | Western
A greedy Missouri merchant overcharges the westbound settlers for goods and for passage to California while also stealing the Osages' supplies who consequently start attacking all passing wagon trains.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Rod Cameron, Jane Nigh, Morris Ankrum, Douglas Kennedy
Votes: 208
19. The Deerslayer (1943)
Approved | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Deerslayer, a white man who was brought up by the Mohicans, helps his old tribe when the Hurons steal Princess Wah Tah, the betrothed of his friend Jingo-Good. His friends, the Hutters, are... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Bruce Kellogg, Jean Parker, Larry Parks, Warren Ashe
Votes: 41
20. The Massacre (1912)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Action, War
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Wilfred Lucas, Blanche Sweet, Charles West, Alfred Paget
Votes: 355
21. The Man from Dakota (1940)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, History, War
During the Civil War a beautiful woman helps two Union spies cross into the Confederacy and gather information.
Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Wallace Beery, John Howard, Dolores Del Río, Donald Meek
Votes: 140