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1. Buckaroo Bard (1988 TV Movie)

56 min | Documentary, Family, Western

Cowboy poet Waddie Mitchell recites his work and that of other western writers in real western locations.

Directors: David Broberg, John Clemons, Richard Jamison | Stars: Waddie Mitchell, Richard Farnsworth

Votes: 8

2. The 43rd Annual Golden Globe Awards 1986 (1986 TV Special)

Golden Globe Award - American award awarded by the Hollywood association of the foreign press from 1944 for works in movies and television's pictures.

Director: Gene Weed | Stars: Charlton Heston, Donna Mills, June Allyson, Rosanna Arquette

Votes: 164

3. The Boys of Twilight (1992)

60 min | Drama, Western

The short lived series was set in the small town of Twilight, Utah. Promoted by the town's develop minded mayor Twilight is discovered by upwardly mobile urbanites, looking to get out of ... See full summary »

Stars: Richard Farnsworth, Wilford Brimley, Ben Browder, Louise Fletcher

Votes: 28

4. Anne of Green Gables (1985)
Episode: Part 1 (1985)

TV-G | 93 min | Drama, Family

Anne Shirley, a young orphan from the fictional community of Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia (based upon the real community of New London, Prince Edward Island), is sent to live with Marilla and ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Sullivan | Stars: Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth, Patricia Hamilton

Votes: 272

5. Anne of Green Gables (1985)

TV-G | 100 min | Drama, Family

An orphan girl, sent to an elderly brother and sister by mistake, charms her new home and community with her fiery spirit and imagination.

Stars: Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth, Patricia Hamilton

Votes: 22,699

6. Maverick (1957–1962)
Episode: Hadley's Hunters (1960)

TV-G | 60 min | Western

A vainglorious sheriff gives Bart five days to track down a supposed stagecoach robber, Cherokee Dan Evans. Evans is innocent, and Bart has to figure out a way to avoid the bounty on his head if he fails.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Jack Kelly, Edgar Buchanan, Robert J. Wilke, Andra Martin

Votes: 100

7. Anne of Green Gables (1985)
Episode: Part 2 (1985)

TV-G | 95 min | Drama, Family

Anne reconciles with her friend Diana after she saves her sister from a disease. She makes friends with Diana's rich aunt who invites them over. Anne demonstrates her academic excellence ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Sullivan | Stars: Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth, Patricia Hamilton

Votes: 221

8. Roots (1977)

TV-14 | 74 min | Biography, Drama, History

A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.

Stars: LeVar Burton, Robert Reed, John Amos, Louis Gossett Jr.

Votes: 18,910

9. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)

TV-G | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A Disney-produced anthology covering many different genres.

Stars: Walt Disney, Paul Frees, Clarence Nash, Slim Pickens

Votes: 2,295

10. The High Chaparral (1967–1971)
Episode: The Doctor from Dodge (1967)

PG | 60 min | Western

A dentist rescues Blue from Apaches and bandits. With no money to be made at the ranch, he decides to go after the bandits who have a $1000 bounty on them. When the bandits kidnap him and Blue, he tries to take advantage of it.

Director: Richard Benedict | Stars: Leif Erickson, Cameron Mitchell, Mark Slade, Henry Darrow

Votes: 107

11. Laramie (1959–1963)
Episode: Ride into Darkness (1960)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

Jess rides to Danver's Pass to help Dan Preston who wrote him and to whom he owes a favor. However, when he arrives at Danver's Pass no one knows of Dan but it is obvious to Jess that everyone is lying under orders from Matt Jessup.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: John Smith, Hoagy Carmichael, Robert Crawford Jr., Robert Fuller

Votes: 88

12. Gone with the Wind (1939)

Passed | 238 min | Drama, Romance, War

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil

Votes: 334,764 | Gross: $198.68M

13. The Outer Limits (1963–1965)

TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

An anthology series of insightful science fiction tales.

Stars: Bob Johnson, Ben Wright, William Douglas, Robert Culp

Votes: 9,330

14. Laramie (1959–1963)
Episode: Street of Hate (1960)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

Slim takes on the responsibility of paroled Frank Buckley who was convicted of manslaughter in the death of a rancher's war hero son. Buckley is not wanted in the community, which puts Slim and Jess in the middle of a war.

Director: Herman Hoffman | Stars: John Smith, Hoagy Carmichael, Robert Crawford Jr., Robert Fuller

Votes: 98

15. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Passed | 129 min | Drama

An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin

Votes: 100,095 | Gross: $0.06M

16. The High Chaparral (1967–1971)
Episode: The Long Shadow (1970)

PG | 60 min | Western

Mysterious events start occurring on the ranch putting the ranch hands in danger. But who is behind it? Some of the hands quit in fear forcing the Cannons to find who is behind the incidents and why they are occurring.

Director: Phil Rawlins | Stars: Leif Erickson, Cameron Mitchell, Mark Slade, Henry Darrow

Votes: 55

17. Papillon (1973)

R | 151 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon

Votes: 138,521 | Gross: $53.27M

18. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

PG | 110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

In 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. After considering their options, they escape to South America.

Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin

Votes: 226,930 | Gross: $102.31M

19. The Straight Story (1999)

G | 112 min | Biography, Drama

An old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Joseph A. Carpenter

Votes: 97,639 | Gross: $6.20M

20. Maverick (1957–1962)

TV-14 | 60 min | Western

Bret and Bart Maverick are well-dressed gamblers who migrate from town to town always looking for a good game.

Stars: Jack Kelly, James Garner, Roger Moore, Lane Chandler

Votes: 3,630

21. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

A Civil War veteran with a sawed-off rifle as a holstered weapon makes a living as a bounty hunter in the Wild West of the 1870s.

Stars: Steve McQueen, Wright King, Olan Soule, Mort Mills

Votes: 2,787

22. The Wild West (1993)

834 min | History

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Stars: Jack Lemmon, Tim Curry, Laurence Fishburne, Richard Thomas

Votes: 52

23. Spartacus (1960)

PG-13 | 197 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.

Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton

Votes: 143,404 | Gross: $30.00M

24. The Ten Commandments (1956)

G | 220 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson

Votes: 78,016 | Gross: $93.74M

25. Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode: The Saddle Stiff (1972)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

Cactus Murphy, an embittered ranch whom Ben fired, suggests that the Cartwright patriarch is getting a little old to "put in a real week's work." Ben's response: Take a job under the ... See full summary »

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Mitch Vogel

Votes: 93

26. Highway to Heaven (1984–1989)
Episode: A Dream of Wild Horses (1987)

Not Rated | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy

An aging rancher gives up, and places all the responsibility on his stressed out daughter. Jonathan and Mark show up to offer support.

Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Michael Landon, Victor French, Don Collier, Richard Farnsworth

Votes: 99

27. Maverick (1957–1962)
Episode: Duel at Sundown (1959)

TV-G | 49 min | Western

Bret Maverick is on his way to a high stakes poker game, when an injured friend with a hidden agenda, begs him to visit. After Bret arrives, the friend's beautiful daughter draws Bret into ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: James Garner, Jack Kelly, Edgar Buchanan, Abby Dalton

Votes: 273

28. The Rebel (1959–1961)
Episode: Yellow Hair (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

A mortally wounded soldier stumbles into Johnny's camp. Before he dies, he says only one thing: "Fort Concho." Johnny rides to the fort and discovers it empty of soldiers. The sole survivor... See full summary »

Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Nick Adams, Royal Dano, Rodolfo Acosta, Eddie Little Sky

Votes: 65

29. Roots (1977)
Episode: Part V (1977)

TV-14 | 51 min | Biography, Drama, History

In 1806, Kunta's teenage daughter Kizzy falls in love with a slave called Noah, who later tries to escape. Unfortunately, he is quickly caught and tortured until he names Kizzy as his accomplice, sealing her horrific fate.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: John Amos, Chuck Connors, Sandy Duncan, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

Votes: 295

30. Misery (1990)

R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller

After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.

Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen

Votes: 236,096 | Gross: $61.28M

31. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

PG | 135 min | Drama, Western

Missouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George, Bill McKinney

Votes: 79,971 | Gross: $31.80M

32. Red River (1948)

Passed | 133 min | Drama, Western

Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.

Directors: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson | Stars: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan

Votes: 34,461

33. The Rebel (1959–1961)

Approved | 30 min | Western

After the end of the Civil War, a former Confederate Army private roams the Wild West, and, as a rogue drifter, gets involved in helping out various settlers threatened by various bad guys.

Stars: Nick Adams, Chuck Hamilton, Sid Troy, Ross Sturlin

Votes: 657

34. State Trooper (1956–1959)

30 min | Drama

Rod Blake, a State Trooper is an officer of the Nevada Department of Public Safety. The setting is in the 1950s American West.

Stars: Rod Cameron, Robert Armstrong, Don Haggerty, Paul Stader

Votes: 122

35. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode: The Cherokee Trail (1981)

Unrated | Adventure, Drama, Family

In the late 19th Century, Mary Breydon, a widow, and Peggy Breydon, her daughter manage a stagecoach stop on The Cherokee Trail. The story is told from the perspective of Peggy, looking back on her adventures.

Director: Kieth Merrill | Stars: Cindy Pickett, Mary Larkin, Timothy Scott, David Hayward

Votes: 29

36. Laramie (1959–1963)
Episode: The Tumbleweed Wagon (1961)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

A prisoner is killed by the son of a broke farmer as they transport him to the tumbleweed wagon for pickup. Needing the $100 for the job the farmer decides to substitute Slim when they find him alone on the road putting Slim in danger.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: John Smith, Robert Fuller, Jack Elam, Steve Darrell

Votes: 85

37. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: Quarantine (1977)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Counting on his immunity to protect him from the deadly mountain fever that killed his first wife and daughter, Isaiah Edwards takes Doc Baker to help with neighboring Elmsville's outbreak.... See full summary »

Director: Victor French | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Votes: 321

38. Nichols (1971–1972)
Episode: Wonder Fizz Flies Again (1972)

Western

Nichols and his biplane buddy head to Mexico to rescue an Army Captain's kidnapped daughter.

Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: James Garner, Margot Kidder, Neva Patterson, John Beck

Votes: 19

39. Blazing Saddles (1974)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Western

In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman

Votes: 152,729 | Gross: $119.50M

40. Laramie (1959–1963)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

In the 1870s Wyoming Territory, Slim Sherman and his 14-year-old brother Andy try to hang on to their ranch after their father's death.

Stars: Robert Fuller, John Smith, Spring Byington, Dennis Holmes

Votes: 1,484

41. The Caine Mutiny (1954)

Not Rated | 124 min | Drama, War

When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardises the ship, the first officer is urged to consider relieving him of command.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray

Votes: 29,943 | Gross: $21.75M

42. Nichols (1971–1972)

60 min | Western

In 1914, Nichols, a soldier, sick of killing, returns to his Arizona hometown, and is serving as Sheriff by the Ketcham clan, who run the area. Nichols, who doesn't believe in toting a gun, scoots around via a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.

Stars: James Garner, Margot Kidder, Neva Patterson, John Beck

Votes: 348

43. Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951–1958)

30 min | Family, Western

Hickok rode Buckshot while 300-pound Jingles rode Joker. Jingles described Hickok as "the bravest, strongest, fightingest U.S. Marshal in the whole West." And that's about it: he beat up all the bad guys and somehow kept his good looks.

Stars: Guy Madison, Andy Devine, Sam Flint, William Haade

Votes: 232

44. Soldiers of Fortune (1955–1957)

30 min | Adventure

Two soldiers take on jobs to fight injustice.

Stars: John Russell, Chick Chandler, John Daheim, Jan Arvan

Votes: 97

45. Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode: He Was Only Seven (1972)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

Jamie's 7-year-old friend, Jonah Morgan, is badly wounded when he and Jamie walk into the Virginia City Bank during a robbery by the evil Springer gang. The boy later dies of his injuries. Joe and Jamie accompany Jonah's grief-hardened, paraplegic grandfather on the hunt for Springer and his cronies.

Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel

Votes: 103

46. The Big Valley (1965–1969)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

The Wild West adventures of the Barkley family in California's San Joaquin Valley.

Stars: Richard Long, Peter Breck, Lee Majors, Linda Evans

Votes: 3,555

47. The High Chaparral (1967–1971)

PG | 60 min | Western

The Cannon family runs the High Chaparral Ranch in the Arizona Territory in 1870s.

Stars: Leif Erickson, Cameron Mitchell, Henry Darrow, Linda Cristal

Votes: 2,419

48. Superstunt (1977 TV Special)

120 min | Action, Family

TV special on NBC in 1977, about dangerous stunts.

Director: Bill Davis | Stars: Lee Marvin, Ira Anderson Jr., Ernest Borgnine, Richard E. Butler

Votes: 47

49. The Texas Rangers (1981 TV Movie)

60 min

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Director: Georg Fenady | Stars: Patricia Barry, Paul Brinegar, Michael Cavanaugh, Richard Farnsworth

Votes: 7

50. Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode: Top Hand (1971)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

During a cattle drive, Ben finds himself involved in a power struggle between the trail boss the Cartwrights appointed and a fellow rancher's foreman, who schemes to take over the job.

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Ben Johnson

Votes: 109