Best movies like Buffalo Soldiers
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Plot Summary:
They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, they must walk through it instead of ride. The town dishonors them but the soldiers' Native-American foes do not. Apache leader Victoria and other warriors give the horsemen a name of honor and strength: "Buffalo Soldiers". The troopers' daring hunt for Victorio frames this stirring tribute to the former slaves and other African-Americans of the 9th and 10th U.S. Calvary Regiments. Danny Glover, Mykelti Williamson, Glynn Turman, Carl Lumbly and Michael Warren star in an adventure bringing to light that largely unknown story and the unique moral dilemma the men faced. Atten-hut! "Buffalo Soldiers are riding" through town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, disturbing
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The McMasters (1970)
Plot Summary:
Set in the immediate post-Civil War era, The McMasters stars Brock Peters as a black Union soldier who finds he must figuratively fight the war all over again. Returning to his southern hometown, Peters quickly learns that nothing has really changed: he is a "free"man in name only. Peters' ex-master Burl Ives magnanimously gives the former slave a plot of land, but only Native-American David Carradine and his tribesmen are willing to work for a black man. The "invasion" of Indians serves to stir up the racial divisiveness even farther, thanks to local rabble-rouser Jack Palance.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, tension, suspense
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In Pursuit of Honor (1995)
Plot Summary:
To save a group of horses slated to be destroyed by the US Cavalry, a group of officers rebel and begin a journey towards Canada to save themselves and the mounts.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Distant Trumpet (1964)
Plot Summary:
In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona, where he meets commanding officer Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, surprise ending
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Geronimo (1962)
Plot Summary:
In 1883, the Apache Indians lead by Geronimo reluctantly surrender to the attacks of American and Mexican troops, in exchange for a territory and food for their warriors. Soon though, Geronimo escapes the camps and declares war against the Americans.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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The Glory Guys (1965)
Plot Summary:
Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a generic war story covering the enlistment, training, and operational deployment of a group of recruits that could take place in any time period.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, cynical
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The Devil's Backbone (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly protecting the outpost, so becomes a deserter and an avenger, stalking and killing Indians without warning.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, serious, realistic
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Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events that happened in Banning,California, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, tells the story of one of the last Western manhunts, in 1909. Willie Boy, a Native American, kills his girlfriend's father in self defense, and the two go on the run, pursued by a search posse led by Sheriff Christopher Cooper.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, rough, thought provoking, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Crazy Horse (1996)
Plot Summary:
The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic
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Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Plot Summary:
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyennes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, retro, period piece, historical drama, captivating, epic, 70mm film
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Two Rode Together (1961)
Plot Summary:
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, cynical, suspenseful, retro, spaghetti western, vintage, wild
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Custer of the West (1967)
Plot Summary:
Biopic of General George Armstrong Custer from his rise to prominence in the Civil War through to his "last stand" at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: UK, France, Spain, USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, independent film, exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, tragic ending
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The Colt (2005)
Plot Summary:
During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Union Jim Rabb's beloved mare. Refusing the orders to shoot it, lest it prove a hindrance, Rabb keeps the colt as a consolation in these desperate times-a symbol of hope that leads the men of the First Cavalry on a journey of self-discovery and newfound brotherhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, exciting
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Emperor (2020)
Plot Summary:
An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, inspirational
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Ulzana's Raid (1972)
Plot Summary:
Report reaches the US cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him back; accompanying the troop is McIntosh, an experienced scout, and Ke-Ni-Tay, an Apache guide. Ulzana massacres, rapes and loots across the countryside; and as DeBuin encounters the remains of his victims, he is compelled to learn from McIntosh and to confront his own naivity and hidden prejudices.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: brutal, spaghetti western, exciting, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, wild, cult film
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Soldier Blue (1970)
Plot Summary:
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, serious, bleak, controversial, touching, brutal, spaghetti western, grindhouse, historical drama
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
Plot Summary:
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, emotional, exciting, sincere, realistic, political, historical drama, anthropological, epic
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Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
Plot Summary:
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government, Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which humiliates the government by evading capture, whi.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: intense, factual, serious, captivating, realistic, entertaining, anamorphic, cult classic, sincere, rough
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A Time for Killing (1967)
Plot Summary:
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the war is over. Keeping the message a secret, the captain has his men go on and they soon find themselves in a battle with the Union search party who also is unaware of the war's end.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: retro, costume drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Shalako (1968)
Plot Summary:
Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, stylized, spaghetti western, independent film, euro western, wild, cult film
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The Stalking Moon (1968)
Plot Summary:
When an army scout retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and her half-breed son recently rescued from indians, and invites them to join him. He does this even knowing the child's father is a feared and murderous Apache and that sooner or later a showdown is almost inevitable.`.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, retro, spaghetti western, independent film, suspense, wild
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Major Dundee (1965)
Plot Summary:
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sad, perverse, cult classic, rough, epic
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The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)
Plot Summary:
Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain for that life. Yearning to embrace the simplicity of the American West-and the Yellow Hands Sioux tribe he left behind, Morgan returns to the tribe's land only to discover that they've been decimated by ruthless, government-backed fur traders. They must regain their land, led by Horse.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, spaghetti western, light, inspirational, sexy, enigmatic
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Into the West (2005)
Plot Summary:
Steven Spielberg executive produced this TNT miniseries about American Westward expansion during the 19th century. Told from both the perspective of the white Wheeler family and the Native American Lakota tribe, the 12-hour epic follows the clans as they struggle to find their place in a country confounded by turmoil and change.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 552 min
Plot tags: epic, sincere, realistic, atmospheric, serious, educational, historical drama, contemplative, period drama, wild
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
Plot Summary:
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political, epic, sincere, uplifting, thought provoking, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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Boycott (2001)
Plot Summary:
This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, political, talky
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The Alamo (2004)
Plot Summary:
Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: realistic, factual, intense, exciting, sincere, rough, serious, epic, historical drama, anamorphic
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Gettysburg (1993)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1863. The Confederacy pushes north into Pennsylvania. Union divisions converge to face them. The two great armies clash at Gettysburg, site of a theology school. For three days, through such legendary actions as Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge, the fate of "one nation, indivisible" hangs in the balance.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 271 min
Plot tags: epic, factual, realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, breathtaking, intense, period piece, patriotic
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Glory (1989)
Plot Summary:
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: epic, inspirational, suspense, realistic, rough, factual, period piece, emotional, talky, serious
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The Retrieval (2013)
Plot Summary:
On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, road movie, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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Hostiles (2017)
Plot Summary:
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspense, psychological, captivating, motivational, heartbreaking, serious, tear jerker, spaghetti western