Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "hanged-from-a-horse"

1. The Homesman (2014)

R | 122 min | Drama, Western

Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy, who in turn employs low-life drifter George Briggs to assist her.

Director: Tommy Lee Jones | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto

Votes: 35,816 | Gross: $2.43M

2. The Shadow Riders (1982 TV Movie)

PG | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Western

After the Civil War, two brothers demobilized from the army return home and must rescue certain relatives who have been kidnapped by a band of renegade Confederates.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Dominique Dunne, Ben Johnson

Votes: 3,078

3. Red Headed Stranger (1986)

R | 105 min | Western

Revisionist western about fallen preacher Shay, who guns down his wife Raysha for running off with another man. Wandering, he meets single mom Laurie. However, helpless sheriff Scoby wants Shay to help him fight the villainous Clavers.

Director: William D. Wittliff | Stars: Willie Nelson, Morgan Fairchild, R.G. Armstrong, Royal Dano

Votes: 905

4. Bad Company (1972)

PG | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

A God-fearing Ohio boy dodging the Civil War draft arrives in St. Joseph, MO where he joins up with a hardscrabble group of like runaways heading west

Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis, David Huddleston

Votes: 4,608

5. Six Black Horses (1962)

Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western

A beautiful woman with an ulterior motive hires two gunslingers to escort her through Indian territory so she can be reunited with her awaiting husband.

Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Joan O'Brien, George D. Wallace

Votes: 961

6. The Jayhawkers! (1959)

Approved | 100 min | Western

Before the U.S. Civil War rebel leader Luke Darcy sees himself as leader of a new independent Republic of Kansas but the military governor sends an ex-raider to capture Darcy.

Director: Melvin Frank | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Fess Parker, Nicole Maurey, Henry Silva

Votes: 749

7. Deadwood '76 (1965)

Approved | 97 min | Drama, Western

A young drifter is mistaken for Billy the Kid. The consequences prove deadly.

Director: James Landis | Stars: Arch Hall Jr., Jack Lester, La Donna Cottier, Arch Hall Sr.

Votes: 264

8. Gunsmoke: To the Last Man (1992 TV Movie)

R | 91 min | Western

Retired Marshal Matt Dillon tracks Arizona rustlers and lands in the middle of the 1880s Pleasant Valley War.

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: James Arness, Pat Hingle, Amy Stoch, Matt Mulhern

Votes: 403

9. The Bandits (1967)

PG | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Three North Americans get involved into the Mexican fight against the French Intervention.

Directors: Robert Conrad, Alfredo Zacarías | Stars: Robert Conrad, Manuel López Ochoa, Roy Jenson, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.

Votes: 64

10. Hitched (1971 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 73 min | Comedy, Western

The adventures of a newly married teenage couple in the Old West.

Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Sally Field, Tim Matheson, Neville Brand, Slim Pickens

Votes: 93

11. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993–1994)
Episode: Ned Zed (1994)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Brisco County Jr. tracks down the notorious bank robber Ned Zed, who also happens to be a former member of John Bly's gang. Along the way he runs into Lord Bowler and an old flame and enlists their help in snaring Ned .

Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, Christian Clemenson, Comet

Votes: 151

12. The Gene Autry Show (1950–1955)
Episode: Gun Powder Range (1950)

30 min | Western

A young lad decides a life of an outlaw is more exciting than day to day living. Things become complicated when Gene tries to teach the boy a lesson. Instead they are confused for real ... See full summary »

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis

Votes: 16

13. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode: Born to Hang (1957)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Joe Digger is nearly killed by two men who tried to lynch him. Now he is giving Matt until midnight the next day to bring them to jail, or he will track them down and kill them both.

Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake

Votes: 166

14. Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963)
Episode: The Long Night (1957)

Not Rated | 26 min | Western

Three men in black wait to be hanged the next day for a murder it seems any one of them might have committed. Of the three, one's holster bears a silver chess knight.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Richard Boone, Kent Smith, James Best, William Schallert

Votes: 165

15. Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963)
Episode: The Posse (1959)

Not Rated | 26 min | Western

Paladin meets a man on the trail who confesses to two murders. The man then convinces a posse with hanging on its mind that Paladin is the killer.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Richard Boone, Perry Cook, Denver Pyle, Harry Carey Jr.

Votes: 103

16. Laramie (1959–1963)
Episode: Dark Verdict (1959)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

Jess's friend John MacLean is being chased by a posse for the murder of the sheriff and another man. They try to lynch him but Slim and Jess force a trial but the court is illegal. When John is lynched by them, Jess wants justice.

Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: John Smith, Hoagy Carmichael, Robert Crawford Jr., Robert Fuller

Votes: 129

17. Legend (1995)
Episode: Fall of a Legend (1995)

TV-PG | 45 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Western

Pratt is wrongfully convicted of murder and he, Bartok and Ramos must help clear his name.

Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, John de Lancie, Mark Adair-Rios, Jarrad Paul

Votes: 16

18. Paradise (1988–1990)
Episode: Bad Blood (1991)

60 min | Western

Hired guns jump Ethan. The mother of the man he killed in Texas is responsible for sending each attempt to hang Ethan or return him for hanging. Ethan decides to return to Texas and settle ... See full summary »

Stars: Lee Horsley, Sigrid Thornton, Jenny Beck, Matthew Newmark

Votes: 10

19. The Quest (1976)
Episode: Day of Outrage (1976)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Western

To escape the vicious windstorm outside, Quentin and Morgan enter another kind of storm when they seek shelter in a bawdy ranch house owned by an aggressive woman.

Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: Kurt Russell, Tim Matheson, Amanda Blake, George Gaynes

Votes: 22

20. Rawhide (1959–1965)
Episode: Brush War at Buford (1965)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

Rowdy fights to drive his steers across the Red River without getting into a range war between ruthless carpetbagger Duke Aberdeen, and Southern gentleman Major Buford. A raid into ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Clint Eastwood, John Ireland, Paul Brinegar, Steve Raines

Votes: 65

21. Rawhide (1959–1965)
Episode: Encounter at Boot Hill (1965)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

One of Rowdy's drovers is killed and another wounded trying to stop a lynching. Looking for justice for his men, Rowdy runs into a town run by a power hungry sheriff and deputy, who are protecting the father and son who did the shooting.

Director: Sutton Roley | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Paul Brinegar, Steve Raines, Raymond St. Jacques

Votes: 98

22. Rawhide (1959–1965)
Episode: Incident of the Running Iron (1961)

Not Rated | 52 min | Western

While herding strays, Quince comes across a man altering brands. Before Quince can pursue him a posse comes upon the site and charges Quince with rustling. Gil and Rowdy have only hours clear him before Quince faces a vigilante court.

Director: Harmon Jones | Stars: Eric Fleming, Clint Eastwood, Sheb Wooley, Paul Brinegar

Votes: 78

23. Rawhide (1959–1965)
Episode: Texas Fever (1965)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

Pete Nolan (Sheb Wooley), who'd been out scouting for the Army for the last couple of years, is back working for Favor starting in this episode, only to find himself falsely accused of ... See full summary »

Director: Harmon Jones | Stars: Eric Fleming, Clint Eastwood, Paul Brinegar, Sheb Wooley

Votes: 67

24. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: Stopover in a Western Town (1963)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

A cowboy becomes infatuated with an eastern society girl he meets on a train. Against The Virginian's advice he courts the spoiled girl but is forced to turn to rustling to pay for it. In the end she learns the serious cost of her actions.

Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Doug McClure, Gary Clarke, James Drury

Votes: 91

25. The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode: The Gauntlet (1967)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

The Virginian is shot crossing a large Texas ranch. The owner taking him in tries to hire him to be his own foreman. The owner likes to make his own rules putting him at odds with his wife over their son and the running of a gauntlet.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Charles Bickford, Doug McClure, Clu Gulager, Don Quine

Votes: 63

26. The Lost World (1999–2002)
Episode: Dead Man's Hill (2001)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Roxton gets stuck in the old west, pursued for a crime he didn't commit.

Director: Catherine Millar | Stars: Peter McCauley, Rachel Blakely, Jennifer O'Dell, David Orth

Votes: 57

27. Bordertown (1989–1991)
Episode: The Man They Couldn't Hang (1989)

TV-14 | 23 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

The Man They Couldn't Hang.

Director: Stuart Gillard | Stars: Richard Comar, John H. Brennan, Sophie Barjac, Cavan Cunningham

Votes: 5

28. Lonesome Dove (1989)
Episode: The Plains (1989)

TV-14 | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Gus and Lorena rejoin the cattle drive. Elmira makes her way to Ogallala, with July close on her heels. Jake's new partnership doesn't turn out as planned.

Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane

Votes: 495

29. Bordertown (1989–1991)
Episode: Sons of Thunder (1990)

TV-14 | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Craddock agrees to escort a Metis half-breed wanted for stealing horses back to Canada to stand trial. He quickly takes a liking to the young man, but finds the trip to Bordertown too ... See full summary »

Director: Neill Fearnley | Stars: Richard Comar, John H. Brennan, Sophie Barjac, Maurice Godin