The Western genre had its last hurrah in 1969, producing classics like True Grit and The Wild Bunch, and cementing the year ...

Movies like Tombstone and Django Unchained define brutality in the genre, but they aren't the only examples of this.

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Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

Netflix has dominated the Western genre’s new TV releases in 2025, and no TV Western has had a more impressive debut on the ...

Every few years, movie lovers ask what happened to the Western — the film genre that helped launch America’s film industry at the dawn of the 20th century and constituted up to a quarter of ...

In 1865, the explorer, hatmaker, and entrepreneur John Stetson founded his eponymous company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Before establishing his business, Stetson had spent time out West mingling ...

From lone gunslingers to brawls in desert saloons, Western films are a unique American staple. Though there are a few outliers in the genre (and on this list), Westerns are almost entirely defined by ...