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 ...

I n 1966, as the old Hollywood was giving way to the new, underground filmmaker Monte Hellman directed two small-scale Westerns back-to-back: The Shootingand Ride in the Whirlwind ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...