| 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 |