The most beloved of all Westerns, this 1956 classic sees John Ford and John Wayne teaming up for a timeless journey through vast, uncharted territory. It opened the door to a new frontier: one ...

25. Blazing Saddles (1974) Like many, if not all, Westerns after the classic era, Mel Brooks’s spoof is keenly aware of its own sense of genre – what the Western is, and what it represents as ...

Look up any list of the best Westerns of all time and you might notice a bit of a theme. The overwhelming majority of the movies tend to be from before the mid-1960s, with a few sprinkled in from ...

In 1966, as the old Hollywood was giving way to the new, underground filmmaker Monte Hellman directed two small-scale Westerns back-to-back: The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind. Both films were ...

Some of the biggest movies of all time missed out on Best Picture wins at the Oscars. It takes a rare feat of cinematic perfection to win such a hallowed award, and one such winner is leaving ...