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1. The Searchers (1956)
Passed | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
Votes: 96,566
2. Little Big Man (1970)
PG-13 | 139 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam
Votes: 37,971 | Gross: $31.56M
3. Into the West (2005)
TV-14 | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Tales from the American West in the 19th century, told from the perspective of two families, one of white settlers and one of Native Americans.
Stars: Joseph M. Marshall, Irene Bedard, Gil Birmingham, John Terry
Votes: 7,569
4. Two Rode Together (1961)
Passed | 109 min | Drama, Western
A corrupt marshal is pressured by his army friend into negotiating the release of white captives of the Comanches, but finds that their reintegration into society has its consequences.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones, Linda Cristal
Votes: 6,969
5. Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Drama, Romance, Western
In 1868 Kansas, a Lakota Sioux warrior stubbornly refuses to free the 2 white women he kidnapped, triggering a war between his tribe and General Custer's rescuing troops.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Janine Turner, Jean Louisa Kelly, Patrick Bergin, William Shockley
Votes: 1,095
6. Black Fox (1995 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 92 min | Romance, Western
A former slave affects peace between Native American tribes and homesteaders in 1860s around western Texas.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Raoul Max Trujillo, Tony Todd, Janet Bailey
Votes: 488
7. 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: 3,191
8. Comanche Station (1960)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Western
A man saves a woman who had been kidnapped by Comanches, then struggles to get both of them home alive.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins, Skip Homeier
Votes: 4,438
9. Savage Sam (1963)
Approved | 103 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Travis, Arliss, and Lisbeth are captured by Apaches while Old Yeller's son, Sam, tracks their trail.
Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Brian Keith, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Dewey Martin
Votes: 1,179 | Gross: $6.54M
10. Trooper Hook (1957)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Western
When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Earl Holliman, Edward Andrews
Votes: 1,012
11. The Charge at Feather River (1953)
Passed | 95 min | Western
In Colorado territory, Miles Archer is asked by the cavalry at Fort Bellows to aid in rescuing two white women abducted by the Cheyenne and to provide security for the railroad construction teams.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Guy Madison, Vera Miles, Frank Lovejoy, Helen Westcott
Votes: 720
12. The Trackers (1971 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 73 min | Drama, Western
When a rancher's daughter is kidnapped by Apaches, he forms a posse and sends for the U.S. Marshal but an African-American Deputy Marshal shows up instead.
Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Sammy Davis Jr., Ernest Borgnine, Julie Adams, Connie Kreski
Votes: 360
13. 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: 875
14. The Pathfinder (1952)
Passed | 78 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Pathfinder, a white man raised by the Mohican Indians, joins forces with the British army to avenge himself on the Mingo warriors and the French, who have brought death and pillage to his ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: George Montgomery, Helena Carter, Jay Silverheels, Walter Kingsford
Votes: 237
15. Dear America: Standing in the Light (1999 TV Movie)
TV-Y7 | 29 min | Drama, Family, History
A teenage Quaker farm girl is abducted by Indians in 1750s Pennsylvania.
Director: Stacey Stewart Curtis | Stars: Madeleine Bergeron, C. David Johnson, Jane Johanson, Jennifer Podemski
Votes: 86
17.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Desperate Passage
(1967)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights and Candy come across a town deserted following an Indian attack. The sole survivor is a man locked up in the jail until a woman, claiming to have escaped the attack, turns up.
Director: Leon Benson | Stars: Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Steve Forrest
Votes: 109
18.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Erin
(1969)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Hoss is rescued from a band of hungry Paiutes rustling Ponderosa cattle after a hard winter by Erin O'Donnell, an Irish woman who was raised by the Sioux and revered by the tribes as a medicine woman and mystic.
Director: Don Richardson | Stars: Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Mary Fickett
Votes: 108
19.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Love Me Not
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Ben's Pygmalion-like efforts to 'civilize' a young, white woman, raised by a neighboring Paiute Indian tribe, have an unintended result when, instead of choosing a husband from among the ... See full summary »
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 118
20.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Beginning
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights find Billy Horn, a young man who was taken captive and raised by the Shoshone. He comes to live with them and befriends them, as they try to re-accustom him to the white ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 108
21.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Savage
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Adam rides up on some Indians wanting to harm a white woman they believed was a mountain spirit. He kills them but not before they wound him. The woman nurses him back to health but the rest of the tribe is still out there looking for her.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 154
22.
Bordertown (1989–1991)
Episode:
Over the Line
(1989)
TV-14 | 23 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Craddock recognizes a visiting railroad promoter as a person from his Civil War past. The promoter has changed his name to hide his identity. Craddock ends up in jail accused of attacking the promoter
Director: Brad Turner | Stars: Richard Comar, John H. Brennan, Sophie Barjac, Jason Michas
Votes: 6
23.
Cimarron Strip (1967–1968)
Episode:
Heller
(1968)
TV-PG | 74 min | Western
Marshal Crown is shot while pursuing a murderous gang of outlaws who prey on isolated Indian villages. He is found, hidden and nursed back to health by Heller, a young woman who was raised ... See full summary »
Director: Gunnar Hellström | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Percy Herbert, Randy Boone, Jill Townsend
Votes: 52
24.
Daniel Boone (1964–1970)
Episode:
Hannah Comes Home
(1969)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Western
A woman long thought dead is discovered by Daniel living with the Chickasaw. Daniel tells her her husband is still alive and that she should come back. She does, but her husband has trouble accepting her Indian son.
Director: Fess Parker | Stars: Fess Parker, Patricia Blair, Darby Hinton, Dal McKennon
Votes: 35
25.
Daniel Boone (1964–1970)
Episode:
Tekawitha McLeod
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Western
A dance at Fort Boonesborough is interrupted by Flathead Joseph, a halfbreed slave trader. He has a young Indian girl with him whom he claims is a Cherokee Princess...and a white girl. Her ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Fess Parker, Albert Salmi, Ed Ames, Patricia Blair
Votes: 60
26.
Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode:
The Hero of Apache Pass
(1966)
TV-PG | 25 min | Western
After a settler's son is stolen during an Apache raid, an Army doctor leads a small band on a near impossible mission to rescue a group of wounded soldiers and the child.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Charles Bateman, Phillip Pine, Don Keefer, Michael Pate
Votes: 30
27.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Kiowa
(1970)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
When Ed Vail's daughter is kidnapped by Indians, Ed and his sons set out to find the girl. But Ed will have to come to grips with himself before rescuing his daughter.
Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis, Buck Taylor
Votes: 167
28.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Women for Sale: Part 1
(1973)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Matt becomes involved in investigating the disappearance of female settlers and travelers in the region. He links it to a band of renegade Native Americans, who plan to sell the women as sex slaves to a band of ruthless white mercenaries.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 160
29.
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957)
Episode:
The Search
(1957)
Approved | Adventure, Drama, Western
Hawkeye and Chingachkook rescue an elderly woman from two Indians who have kidnapped her and were about to take her back to their tribe. She asks the two for help in finding her son, who ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr., Larry Solway, Marjorie Purvey
Votes: 28
30.
The Lazarus Man (1996)
Episode:
The Rescue
(1996)
Mystery, Western
Lazarus helps a group of men "rescue" a woman who was captured by Comanches years ago when she was 6. But the woman would rather stay with her Comanche family.
Stars: Robert Urich, Tym Thurston, Carmen Thomas, Heather Ehlers
Votes: 6
31.
Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode:
Injun Kid
(1977)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Jeremy Stokes lives in Walnut Grove. His daughter Amelia was rumored to have been kidnapped by some Indians. When her husband is killed she and her son, Spotted Eagle, come home to live ... See full summary »
Director: Victor French | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson
Votes: 345
32.
Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode:
The Halloween Dream
(1979)
TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance
On Halloween, Albert has a dream where he and Laura are kidnapped by a rogue Indian tribe after they are mistaken as members of a rival tribe.
Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson
Votes: 359
33.
The Lone Ranger (1949–1957)
Episode:
The Law and Miss Aggie
(1957)
TV-G | 23 min | Western
The Lone Ranger becomes involved when a group of Indians are on the way to a special government meeting are attacked by a local land owner.
Director: Oscar Rudolph | Stars: Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Florence Lake, Dennis Moore
Votes: 45
34.
Northwest Passage (1958–1959)
Episode:
Vengeance Trail
(1958)
30 min | Adventure
A bounty hunter reports that the Mohegans, an Indian tribe who were previously neutral in the fight between the French and the English colonists, are preparing to go on the warpath against ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Keith Larsen, Buddy Ebsen, Don Burnett, Paul Fix
Votes: 8
35.
The Rebel (1959–1961)
Episode:
Yellow Hair
(1959)
Approved | 25 min | Western
A mortally wounded soldier stumbles into Johnny's camp. Before he dies, he says only one thing: "Fort Concho." Johnny rides to the fort and discovers it empty of soldiers. The sole survivor... See full summary »
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Nick Adams, Royal Dano, Rodolfo Acosta, Eddie Little Sky
Votes: 65
36.
The Tall Man (1960–1962)
Episode:
Apache Daughter
(1961)
30 min | Western
Garrett negotiates the return of a girl, now a full-grown woman, who was captured by the Apaches nine years earlier. Although her father welcomes her back with open arms, the former captive... See full summary »
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Clu Gulager, Sherry Jackson, J. Pat O'Malley
Votes: 11
37.
Tate (1960)
Episode:
The Return of Jessica Jackson
(1960)
30 min | Western
Shades of The Searchers as an obsessed man negotiates the release of his wife abducted eight years earlier by a Paiute raiding party. He did not anticipate her bringing home a half-Indian child, or of the Paiute father's fierce resistance.
Director: David Orrick McDearmon | Stars: David McLean, John Kellogg, Jock Gaynor, Henry Corden
Votes: 28
38.
Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode:
The Molly Kincaid Story
(1963)
TV-PG | 75 min | Western
After leaving St. Joseph, Hale tells everyone there are no Indians when in fact two escaped Comanches have stolen horses and shown up at the wagon train's first stop. There, the female wants to kill a man-her cowardly husband.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: John McIntire, Robert Fuller, Frank McGrath, Terry Wilson
Votes: 115
39.
Mackenzie's Raiders (1958–1959)
Episode:
Apache Boy
(1959)
30 min | Western
Colonel Mackenzie discovers that the son of an Apache chief he has captured is actually a white boy taken from his family long ago. The youngster's aunt and uncle agree to take the child as... See full summary »
Director: Richard Carlson | Stars: Richard Carlson, William Challee, Jack Mather, Elisabeth Cope
Votes: 16
40.
Into the West (2005)
Episode:
Manifest Destiny
(2005)
TV-14 | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Manifest Destiny.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Beau Bridges, Jessica Capshaw, Tonantzin Carmelo, Derek de Lint
Votes: 181