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Plot Summary:
This western began in 1812 when the settlers tried to take away more and more territories from the indians. Tecumseh, who is the leader of the Shawnee indians, tries to do something. He plans a big indian state, and tries to win the English settlers over to this plan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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The Canadians (1961)
Plot Summary:
When the Sioux come to Canada, the Canadians permit them to stay in Canada if they come peacefully. However, some cowboys kill all inhabitants of one of their villages. The cowboys seek to get back their horses, but they pretend to search for a girl who once had been robbed by the Indians.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Western
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Ramrodder (1969)
Plot Summary:
Cowboy Rick, on his way to visit his sweetheart, encounters a bevy of beautiful Indian maidens and dallies with one of them. Later, when one of the girls is murdered by a passing no-good, the tribe falsely blames Rick and sentences him to die. But Tuwanna, the chief's daughter with whom Rick, um, dallied, has other ideas.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Seven Hours of Gunfire (1965)
Plot Summary:
When he was 12 years old, Bill Cody, later knew as Buffalo Bill, is rider for "pony express" carrying the mail through the wilds of America. It becomes later caravans guide. When driving one of them meets Luisa, the niece of a priest who tried to evangelize the savage tribes accompanied by a converted Indian. It is a dangerous time because, before the advancing white man, the Sioux tribes are buying weapons from unscrupulous dealers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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White Comanche (1968)
Plot Summary:
William Shatner plays two roles: cowboy Johnny Moon and his ruthless Indian twin brother, Notah. Notah likes peyote and gets the crazy idea that he's the Comanche messiah sent to lead the Comanche nation against the white man but more specifically the dusty desert town of Rio Hondo. Moon, estranged from his brother, decides to stop Notah either by words or by bullets.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, psychotronic
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Chuka: The Gunfighter (1967)
Plot Summary:
A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, spaghetti western
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Django Does Not Forgive (1966)
Plot Summary:
A halfbreed seeks revenge for the death of his sister, who kills herself after being raped by an officer of the Canadian Mounted Police. He gets involved in the historical revolt of halfbreeds and Indians led by Louis Riel in 1885 against the Canadian government.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Western
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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The Wild Westerners (1962)
Plot Summary:
Sheriff Plummer and his men are using their badges to easily rob gold shipments and kill the drivers. Marshal McDowell and his men are looking for the killers. They catch one who is murdered to keep from talking but his killer is identified as Plummer's Deputy. Plummer is still not suspected when McDowell's wife is kidnaped and the outlaws demand the big gold shipment be sent unguarded. So McDowell heads out alone to face the gang with a load of gunpowder instead of gold and only a few trusted Deputies nearby.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Fort Courageous (1965)
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In this western, a cavalry sergeant is wrongly court-martialed. To reclaim his good name, he takes over a patrol that just lost its leader in an Indian attack. He leads the regiment to Fort Courageous, but is appalled to discover that the Indians attacked and massacred all but one of its inhabitants. The hardy little group must now fight the renegades on their own. The ex-sergeant plans a brilliant strategy that culminates in winning the Indian's respect. They leave the fort alone and peace is restored.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sacred Ground (1983)
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SACRED GROUND tells the fact-based story of a mountain man and his Indian wife who happen upon a partially built cabin and finish it for their own home, not realizing that they occupy a sacred burial ground. A Paiute burial party clashes with the couple and in the ensuing skirmish, the wife is critically wounded while in the middle of childbirth. Bitter over her loss and needing a wetnurse for his baby, he steals one of the Paiute woman who had just lost a baby. In this modern version of Helen of Troy, the battle is on, as he takes on the whole band in a desperate attempt to survive. Written by Dale Roloff.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Posse (1993)
Plot Summary:
A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for the men who lynched his father.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Western
Country: UK, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: multicultural, anamorphic, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, spaghetti western, independent film, wild
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I Will Fight No More Forever (1975)
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Pursued by 2,000 US soldiers and cavalry, Chief Joseph leads his tribe of 800 Nez Perce on a 1,700 mile journey across the West and towards Canada. Based on the true story of the westward expansion of the United States and the military force used to displace Native Americans from their lands.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Geronimo (1993)
Plot Summary:
The story of the greatest Native American warrior who, together with the rest of his Apache tribesmen, defied American and Mexican Armies in 1867. Finally caught and sent to a reservation camp, he eluded a military force of 5000 for 18 months before finally surrendering to the government.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: costume drama
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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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Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994)
Plot Summary:
Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Naturally Native (1998)
Plot Summary:
Naturally Native follows the lives, loves, pain, joy and relationships of three sisters as they attempt to start their own business. Of American Indian ancestry, but adopted by white foster parents as young children, each sister has her own identity issues and each has chosen a very different career path. Now dedicated to starting a Native cosmetic business, they attempt to overcome obstacles both in the business world and in the home. A touching love story of family and culture, Naturally Native also interweaves a subtle, but strong wake-up call regarding the treatment of Native people in corporate America. Naturally Native also provides some insight into tribal infrastructure and gaming issues.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Raiders (1963)
Plot Summary:
Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad. , against the railroad.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Black Fox: The Price of Peace (1995)
Plot Summary:
After blaming Britt for his wife's decision to stay with the Native Americans who captured her, an abusive husband organizes a party of vigilantes to accompany him into Indian territory.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
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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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Cheyenne Warrior (1994)
Plot Summary:
An interracial love story, set in the turbulent wild west, stirs up tensions between the Indians and the settlers.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)
Plot Summary:
Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: cynical, funny, spaghetti western, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, contemplative, semi serious
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When the Legends Die (1972)
Plot Summary:
An elderly rodeo rider becomes mentor to a young man attempting to make his own name in the business.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 547
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic
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Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997)
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Kansas, 1868. A wagon train is attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. The attractive, red haired Anna Brewster-Morgan and her friend Sarah White are on this wagon train too. When Tokalah noticed a terrified Anna with a Bible, he thinks this is an omen. Despite killing the other passengers of the wagon train, only Anna and Sarah may continue their voyage. The next day Anna and Sarah are kidnapped by Tokalah. At first terrified of her captors, the unhappily married Anna eventually falls in love with the noble, honorable Tokalah. After a year's captivity, Sarah is returned to her own people. Anna now must choose between her new life with T.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, serious, period drama
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Cat Ballou (1965)
Plot Summary:
A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, melancholic, harsh, talky, semi serious, captivating, humorous, witty, parody, spoof
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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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Comanche Moon (2008)
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Comanche Moon, the prequel to McMurtry's bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Lonesome Dove follows Texas Rangers Augustus "Gus" McCrae (Zahn) and Woodrow F. Call (Urban), now in their middle years, as they continue to deal with the ever-increasing tensions of adult life--Gus with his great love, Clara Forsythe (Cardellini), and Call with Maggie Tilton (Banks), the young prostitute who loves him and bears him his son, Newt (Joseph Castanon). Kilmer plays Captain Inish Scull, a Yankee aristocrat and hero of the recently concluded Mexican War. Griffiths plays Inez Scull, the Captain's sexy wife who doesn't hesitate to fill her time with other men when he's away from home. Wes Studi plays Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, exciting, sincere, detective, rough, bleak, epic, serious
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Windwalker (1980)
Plot Summary:
An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of 'Indians without a single cowboy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, serious, realistic
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The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Plot Summary:
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, harsh, epic, retro, entertaining, educational, smart, visually stunning, powerful
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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