A chronological canon of the most artistically accomplished, genre-defining, and influential Western films ever made.

IMDb – imdb.com/list/ls4174234117
List Challenges – listchallenges.com/the-greatest-western-filmss

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THE GOLDEN 10 – (1939) Stagecoach – (1952) High Noon – (1956) The Searchers – (1959) Rio Bravo – (1962) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance – (1966) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – (1968) Once Upon a Time in the West – (1969) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – (1969) The Wild Bunch – (1992) Unforgiven

THE SILVER 20 – (1943) The Ox-Bow Incident – (1946) My Darling Clementine – (1948) Red River – (1948) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre – (1950) The Gunfighter – (1950) Winchester '73 – (1953) Shane – (1954) Johnny Guitar – (1955) Bad Day at Black Rock – (1957) 3:10 to Yuma – (1958) The Big Country – (1960) The Magnificent Seven – (1964) A Fistful of Dollars – (1965) For a Few Dollars More – (1968) The Great Silence – (1971) McCabe & Mrs. Miller – (1973) Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid – (1976) The Outlaw Josey Wales – (1990) Dances with Wolves – (2007) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

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Decades:
30s – 2
40s – 7
50s – 28
60s – 27
70s – 16
80s – 2
90s – 5
00s – 5
10s – 7
20s – 1

Most represented years (min. 3 films):
1966 – 6
1950, 1959, 1970 – 5
1948, 1957, 1962, 1967 – 4
1954, 1956, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1976, 2015 – 3

Countries of origin:
85 – United States
12 – Italy
1 – Australia, Mexico, New Zealand

Directors (min. 2 films):
8 – John Ford
6 – Anthony Mann
5 – Sergio Leone
4 – Sergio Corbucci, Clint Eastwood, Sam Peckinpah
3 – Budd Boetticher, Delmer Daves, Howard Hawks, John Sturges
2 – Robert Aldrich, The Coen Brothers, Kevin Costner, John Huston, Arthur Penn, Martin Ritt, Elliot Silverstein, George Stevens, Quentin Tarantino, William A. Wellman