The most significant and the most influential Western films of all time in chronological order.

IMDb – imdb.com/list/ls4109814348
List Challenges – listchallenges.com/the-greatest-western-films

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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 – (1969) True Grit – (1971) McCabe & Mrs. Miller – (1973) Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid – (1976) The Outlaw Josey Wales – (1990) Dances with Wolves – (1993) Tombstone

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Decades:
30s – 3
40s – 6
50s – 25
60s – 29
70s – 16
80s – 3
90s – 4
00s – 6
10s – 8

Most represented years (min. 3 films):
1970 – 7
1966 – 6
1950 – 5
1957, 1962, 1965, 1968 – 4
1939, 1948, 1954, 1959, 1967, 1969, 1973, 2007, 2015 – 3

Countries of origin:
83 – United States
14 – Italy
1 – Australia, Mexico, New Zealand

Directors (min. 2 films):
9 – John Ford
6 – Anthony Mann
5 – Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah
4 – Sergio Corbucci, Clint Eastwood
3 – Delmer Daves, Howard Hawks, John Sturges
2 – Budd Boetticher, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, Kevin Costner, Henry Hathaway, Martin Ritt, Don Siegel, Elliot Silverstein, George Stevens, Quentin Tarantino