| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 28 |
| 2 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | 51 |
| 3 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | 58 |
| 4 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | 73 |
| 5 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | 92 |
| 6 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | 97 |
| 7 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford | 106 |
| 8 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 107 |
| 9 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | 114 |
| 10 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone | 118 |
| 11 | The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | D.W. Griffith | 161 |
| 12 | Shane | 1953 | George Stevens | 200 |
| 13 | Dances with Wolves | 1990 | Kevin Costner | 213 |
| 14 | Blazing Saddles | 1974 | Mel Brooks | 224 |
| 15 | Red River | 1948 | Howard Hawks | 234 |
| 16 | My Darling Clementine | 1946 | John Ford | 263 |
| 17 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | Howard Hawks | 279 |
| 18 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford | 288 |
| 19 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | 1971 | Robert Altman | 290 |
| 20 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | 318 |
| 21 | The Wind | 1928 | Victor Sjöström | 483 |
| 22 | The Ox-Bow Incident | 1943 | William A. Wellman | 525 |
| 23 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | 1954 | Stanley Donen | 580 |
| 24 | Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray | 590 |
| 25 | Giant | 1956 | George Stevens | 605 |
| 26 | Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | John Sturges | 639 |
| 27 | The Outlaw Josey Wales | 1976 | Clint Eastwood | 645 |
| 28 | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | 653 |
| 29 | Lone Star | 1996 | John Sayles | 659 |
| 30 | Dead Man | 1995 | Jim Jarmusch | 732 |
| 31 | Little Big Man | 1970 | Arthur Penn | 742 |
| 32 | Oklahoma! | 1955 | Fred Zinnemann | 801 |
| 33 | Way Out West | 1937 | James W. Horne | 825 |
| 34 | Ride the High Country | 1962 | Sam Peckinpah | 880 |
| 35 | Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | 1973 | Sam Peckinpah | 885 |
| 36 | Winchester '73 | 1950 | Anthony Mann | 943 |
| 37 | Destry Rides Again | 1939 | George Marshall | 947 |
| 38 | The Naked Spur | 1953 | Anthony Mann | 990 |
| 39 | El Topo | 1970 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 1005 |
| 40 | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | 1949 | John Ford | 1098 |
| 41 | Duel in the Sun | 1946 | King Vidor | 1146 |
| 42 | True Grit | 1969 | Henry Hathaway | 1187 |
| 43 | Back to the Future Part III | 1990 | Robert Zemeckis | 1192 |
| 44 | The Gunfighter | 1950 | Henry King | 1203 |
| 45 | The Great Train Robbery | 1903 | Edwin S. Porter | 1237 |
| 46 | Old Yeller | 1957 | Robert Stevenson | 1340 |
| 47 | Fort Apache | 1948 | John Ford | 1341 |
| 48 | Seven Men from Now | 1956 | Budd Boetticher | 1345 |
| 49 | Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | 1974 | Sam Peckinpah | 1367 |
| 50 | Heaven's Gate | 1980 | Michael Cimino | 1410 |
| 51 | Cat Ballou | 1965 | Elliot Silverstein | 1510 |
| 52 | The Shootist | 1976 | Don Siegel | 1512 |
| 53 | One-Eyed Jacks | 1961 | Marlon Brando | 1513 |
| 54 | For a Few Dollars More | 1965 | Sergio Leone | 1533 |
| 55 | Man of the West | 1958 | Anthony Mann | 1538 |
| 56 | High Plains Drifter | 1973 | Clint Eastwood | 1542 |
| 57 | The Misfits | 1961 | John Huston | 1549 |
| 58 | Westworld | 1973 | Michael Crichton | 1568 |
| 59 | Tombstone | 1993 | George P. Cosmatos | 1573 |
| 60 | The Big Country | 1958 | William Wyler | 1586 |
| 61 | City Slickers | 1991 | Ron Underwood | 1614 |
| 62 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1625 |
| 63 | Lonely Are the Brave | 1962 | David Miller | 1629 |
| 64 | Calamity Jane | 1953 | David Butler | 1686 |
| 65 | The Mark of Zorro | 1940 | Rouben Mamoulian | 1710 |
| 66 | Romancing the Stone | 1984 | Robert Zemeckis | 1872 |
| 67 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 2007 | Andrew Dominik | 1876 |
| 68 | The Tall T | 1957 | Budd Boetticher | 1893 |
| 69 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 1957 | John Sturges | 1939 |
| 70 | Junior Bonner | 1972 | Sam Peckinpah | 1942 |
| 71 | Annie Get Your Gun | 1950 | George Sidney | 1993 |
| 72 | The Professionals | 1966 | Richard Brooks | 2021 |
| 73 | Legends of the Fall | 1994 | Edward Zwick | 2092 |
| 74 | Antonio das Mortes | 1969 | Glauber Rocha | 2115 |
| 75 | Rio Grande | 1950 | John Ford | 2127 |
| 76 | My Little Chickadee | 1940 | Edward F. Cline | 2130 |
| 77 | The Man from Laramie | 1955 | Anthony Mann | 2205 |
| 78 | The Mask of Zorro | 1998 | Martin Campbell | 2228 |
| 79 | The Alamo | 1960 | John Wayne | 2258 |
| 80 | Ulzana's Raid | 1972 | Robert Aldrich | 2260 |
| 81 | Will Penny | 1968 | Tom Gries | 2267 |
| 82 | Ride Lonesome | 1959 | Budd Boetticher | 2338 |
| 83 | Black God and White Devil | 1964 | Glauber Rocha | 2343 |
| 84 | El Dorado | 1966 | Howard Hawks | 2365 |