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Top Westerns

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 23
2 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 45
3 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 51
4 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 69
5 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 76
6 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 80
7 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 100
8 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 112
9 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 136
10 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 140
11 Shane 1953 George Stevens 146
12 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 165
13 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 183
14 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 211
15 McCabe and Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 251
16 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 264
17 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 280
18 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 294
19 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman 396
20 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 404
21 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 410
22 Giant 1956 George Stevens 412
23 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 531
24 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 555
25 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 619
26 Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann 651
27 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 667
28 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 672
29 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 699
30 A Fistful of Dollars 1964 Sergio Leone 702
31 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Clint Eastwood 733
32 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 760
33 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch 782
34 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 John Ford 842
35 Near Dark 1987 Kathryn Bigelow 848
36 Destry Rides Again 1939 George Marshall 850
37 Way Out West 1937 James W. Horne 866
38 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky 889
39 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 939
40 Back to the Future Part III 1990 Robert Zemeckis 1107
41 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1108
42 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1115
43 Old Yeller 1957 Robert Stevenson 1159
44 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 Sam Peckinpah 1175
45 The Great Train Robbery 1903 Edwin S. Porter 1191
46 The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel 1207
47 Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino 1269
48 Cat Ballou 1965 Elliot Silverstein 1332
49 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford 1374
50 The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann 1406
51 Man of the West 1958 Anthony Mann 1411
52 High Plains Drifter 1973 Clint Eastwood 1413
53 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1421
54 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1489
55 The Mark of Zorro 1940 Rouben Mamoulian 1513
56 City Slickers 1991 Ron Underwood 1534
57 Lonely Are the Brave 1962 David Miller 1552
58 El Mariachi 1992 Robert Rodriguez 1630
59 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Sergio Leone 1637
60 Westworld 1973 Michael Crichton 1643
61 Legends of the Fall 1994 Edward Zwick 1725
62 No Country for Old Men 2007 Ethan and Joel Coen 1799
63 The Mask of Zorro 1998 Martin Campbell 1804
64 My Little Chickadee 1940 Edward F. Cline 1829
65 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1868
66 Friendly Persuasion 1956 William Wyler 1884
67 Black God and White Devil 1964 Glauber Rocha 1885
68 The Man from Laramie 1955 Anthony Mann 1888
69 Tombstone 1993 George P. Cosmatos 1898
70 Viva Zapata! 1952 Elia Kazan 1911
71 Antonio das Mortes 1969 Glauber Rocha 1918
72 The Tall T 1957 Budd Boetticher 1926
73 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 Marlon Brando 1952
74 Rio Grande 1950 John Ford 1985
75 The Big Country 1958 William Wyler 2012
76 The Iron Horse 1924 John Ford 2024
77 Calamity Jane 1953 David Butler 2030
78 Northwest Passage 1940 King Vidor 2123
79 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 2175
80 The Professionals 1966 Richard Brooks 2230
81 Ulzana's Raid 1972 Robert Aldrich 2261
82 The Alamo 1960 John Wayne 2267
83 Seven Men from Now 1956 Budd Boetticher 2329
84 Annie Get Your Gun 1950 George Sidney 2400
85 Hombre 1967 Martin Ritt 2421
86 The Ballad of Little Jo 1993 Maggie Greenwald 2442
87 Bend of the River 1952 Anthony Mann 2510
88 Pale Rider 1985 Clint Eastwood 2511
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