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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: 96,737
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: 38,016 | Gross: $31.56M
3. 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: 6,980
4. Northwest Passage (1940)
Passed | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.
Directors: King Vidor, Jack Conway, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey
Votes: 3,915
5. 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: 3,197
6. 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: 1,015
7. The Savage (1952)
Passed | 95 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A white boy raised by the Sioux must choose sides when the Sioux threaten to go to war against the Whites.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Charlton Heston, Susan Morrow, Peter Hansen, Joan Taylor
Votes: 685
8. The White Squaw (1956)
Approved | 75 min | Western
Faced with heavy opposition from local ranchers, a white Indian woman desperately seeks help for her tribe struggling to survive on a reservation.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: David Brian, May Wynn, William Bishop, Nancy Hale
Votes: 168
9. 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: 239
10.
Bearcats! (1971)
Episode:
Powderkeg
(1971)
93 min | Action, Adventure, War
Just before World War I, two adventurers are hired to bring back a hijacked train from Mexico.
Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: Rod Taylor, Dennis Cole, Fernando Lamas, John McIntire
Votes: 186
11.
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
12.
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
13.
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
14.
Cheyenne (1955–1963)
Episode:
West of the River
(1956)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Cheyenne is asked to lead a group of guardhouse prisoners on a mission to rescue two girls taken captive by the Kiowa. He questions the odds or whether the girls will want to return. The mission starts okay but his fears may be true.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Clint Walker, Lois Collier, Trevor Bardette, Stephanie Griffin
Votes: 135
15.
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
16.
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: 36
17.
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
18.
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
19.
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
20.
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
21.
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
22.
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
23.
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode:
Bounty for a Bride
(1959)
Approved | 24 min | Western
A decidedly different and dangerous assignment awaits Josh when he agrees to go into the Apache camp and compete in their contests to win the hand of a white woman the Indians kidnapped as a child and have raised as their own.
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Lori Nelson, Patrick McVey, Michael Pate
Votes: 131
24.
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