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Plot Summary:
Follow the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. A stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land — Montana.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: historical drama, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, epic, sad, anime, southern gothic, costume drama
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Gunslingers (2014)
Plot Summary:
American Heroes Channel's new series Gunslingers reveals the infamous tales of survival and courage from the Wild West. Exposing little-known facts about America’s first villains and heroes, the six-part series features the stories of Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin and Tom Horn. Juxtaposed with vivid reenactments, expert commentary is layered throughout each episode to ensure the authenticity and historical accuracy of each story. Contributors include: David Milch, the creator of Deadwood; Bob Boze Bell, the executive editor of True West Magazine; and actor Kurt Russell (Tombstone).
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, rough
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The Sacketts (1979)
Plot Summary:
Two part TV adaptation of Louis L'Amour's third novel in the Sackett series. The story follows the three Sackett brothers out west from their Tennessee home. Along the way the oldest, Tell, prospects for gold, while the two younger Orin and Tye herd cattle and later help bring order to a racially divided Santa Fe.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: rough, epic, serious, realistic, saga, suspenseful
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Buffalo Girls (1995)
Plot Summary:
Wild. Untamed. Legendary. In this made-for-tv movie, Buffalo Girls celebrates the bold escapades of tough-talking Calamity Jane Canary and her illustrious cohorts. It's the waning days of the Wild West and Jane, the rough 'n' rugged cowgirl, is searching not only for her long-lost daughter, but the Wild West she once knew. Jane traverses plains, mountains and continents until she finally discovers the answer to her problems: Dora, the vivacious, gold-hearted madam who's been her one true friend all along.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, exciting, sentimental, rough, suspenseful, historical drama
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The American West (2016)
Plot Summary:
From the Executive Producer Robert Redford, THE AMERICAN WEST tells the story of the aftermath of the CIVIL WAR and how the United States transformed into the “land of opportunity" spanning the years 1865 to 1890. Transporting into the violent world of cowboys, Indians, outlaws and law men, the story chronicles the personal, little-known stories of Western legends such as Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. The series features exclusive interviews with notable names from classic Western films, including Robert Redford, James Caan, Burt Reynolds, Tom Selleck, Kiefer Sutherland, Mark Harmon, Ed Harris and more.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023)
Plot Summary:
The story of Bass Reeves, the legendary lawman of the wild West, is brought to life. Reeves worked in the post-Reconstruction era as a federal peace officer in the Indian Territory, capturing over 3,000 of the most dangerous criminals without ever being wounded—and is believed to be the inspiration for The Lone Ranger.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology
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The Son (2017)
Plot Summary:
The multigenerational epic follows two concurrent time periods: One, the story of young Eli McCullough after he is kidnapped and indoctrinated into a tribe of Comanches in 1849. The other, 60 years later, when we see a grown Eli struggle to maintain his family’s cattle empire during the turbulent Bandit Wars of South Texas. Based on Philipp Meyer’s acclaimed novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, captivating, suspenseful, historical drama, neo western, spaghetti western, period drama
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That Dirty Black Bag (2022)
Plot Summary:
The 8-day clash between Arthur McCoy — an incorruptible sheriff with a troubled past — and Red Bill, an infamous, solitary bounty hunter known for decapitating his victims and stuffing their heads into a dirty black bag.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, spaghetti western, period drama
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The English (2022)
Plot Summary:
An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke, arrives into the new and wild landscape of the West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: costume drama, wild, period drama
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The Big Valley (1965)
Plot Summary:
The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: retro, historical drama, serious, realistic, suspense
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Joe Pickett (2021)
Plot Summary:
A game warden and his family navigate the changing political and socio-economic climate in a small rural town in Wyoming on the verge of economic collapse. Surrounded by rich history and vast wildlife, the township hides decades of schemes and secrets that are yet to be uncovered.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, neo western
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1923 (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dramatic, historical drama, period drama
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The Mill (2013)
Plot Summary:
Powerful historical drama series, based on the lives of real people, telling the story of young 19th-century apprentices taking their lives into their own hands for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, psychological, rough, period piece, costume drama, grim, historical drama
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Doctor Thorne (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt/cousins at Greshamsbury Park estate.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: costume drama, captivating, cynical, historical drama, sentimental, thought provoking, touching, period piece, period drama
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Return to Lonesome Dove (1993)
Plot Summary:
'Captain' Call has just buried Gus at Lonesome Dove and plans to head back to his ranch in Montana. Looking at a herd of wild Mustangs, he decides to drive them north with the help of Isom and Gideon Walker. Gideon hires Agostina Vega and Mexican Cowboys to run the Mustangs. Call leaves the drive for Nebraska and runs into Cherokee Jack and a group of Indians, which almost costs him his life. In Montana, Newt and Jasper get into a shoot out in the local bar and wind up in jail. The odds of them surviving the lynch mob are slim until Dunnegan has them freed. However, Newt and Jasper will have to work for Dunnegan to keep their freedom. Newt has mixed emotions about working for Dunnegan who helps him in any way, because he also has respect for Call - who may or may not be his true father. Dunnegan has big plans for his cattle and the future. Those plans do not include those who do not throw in with him and the Hat Creek Cattle Company is not interested in Dunnegan.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 322 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, epic, serious, captivating, realistic, wild
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The Good Lord Bird (2020)
Plot Summary:
Enslaved teenager Henry Shackleford, aka Little Onion, becomes a member in abolitionist John Brown’s motley family during the Bleeding Kansas era before the Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 335 min
Plot tags: historical drama, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political, dramatic, cult classic, humorous, dark comedy
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Belgravia (2020)
Plot Summary:
A tale of secrets and scandals set in 1840s London. When the Trenchards accept an invitation to the now legendary ball hosted by the Duchess of Richmond on the fateful evening of the Battle of Waterloo, it sets in motion a series of events that will have consequences for decades to come as secrets unravel behind the porticoed doors of London’s grandest postcode.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: costume drama, captivating, romantic, period piece, exciting, sincere, atmospheric, historical drama, talky, period drama
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Texas Rising (2015)
Plot Summary:
A depiction of the rise of Texas from the Battle of the Alamo to San Jacinto. A story told through the lives of the men who gave everything up to defend an infant country from a ruthless Dictator and savage Native Americans, and paved the way for the Republic of Texas to emerge.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: historical drama, serious, captivating, realistic, costume drama, spaghetti western
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Broken Trail (2006)
Plot Summary:
Broken Trail is a 2006 Western miniseries directed by Walter Hill and starring Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church. Written by Alan Geoffrion, who also wrote the novel, the story is about an aging cowboy and his nephew who transport 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming to sell them to the British Army. Along the way, their simple horse drive is complicated when they rescue five Chinese girls from a slave trader, saving them from a life of prostitution and indentured servitude. Compelled to do the right thing, they take the girls with them as they continue their perilous trek across the frontier, followed by a vicious gang of killers sent by the whorehouse madam who originally paid for the girls.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 184 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, tense, realistic, emotional, epic, wild, post modern
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Billy the Kid (2022)
Plot Summary:
An epic romantic adventure series based on the life of famous American outlaw Billy the Kid — from his humble Irish roots, to his early days as a cowboy and gunslinger in the American frontier, to his pivotal role in the Lincoln County War and beyond.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, romantic drama, bilingual
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Conagher (1991)
Plot Summary:
Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on a remote homestead. Conn Conagher is a honest, hardworking cowboy. Their lives are intertwined as they fight the elements, indians, outlaws, and loneliness.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, wild
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Hell on Wheels (2011)
Plot Summary:
Hell on Wheels tells the epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, serious, captivating, suspenseful, historical drama, tense, realistic, stylized, dramatic
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Deadwood (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, historical drama, clever, dramatic, period piece, rough, captivating
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Comanche Moon (2008)
Plot Summary:
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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Yellowstone (2018)
Plot Summary:
Follow the violent world of the Dutton family, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. Led by their patriarch John Dutton, the family defends their property against constant attack by land developers, an Indian reservation, and America’s first National Park.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 199000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: scenic, sad, tense, suspense, neo western, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, bleak, captivating
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Lonesome Dove (1989)
Plot Summary:
Lonesome Dove is a Western television miniseries based on Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. Starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, Lonesome Dove was originally broadcast by CBS on February 5, 1989, drawing a huge viewing audience, earning numerous awards, and reviving both the television western and the miniseries.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 384 min
Plot tags: epic, touching, realistic, entertaining, anime, sentimental, captivating, contemplative, soap opera, serious
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Hatfields & McCoys (2012)
Plot Summary:
Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy, close friends and comrades until near the end of the Civil War, return to their neighboring homes to increasing tensions, misunderstandings and resentments.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 290 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, brutal, depressing, emotional, intense, atmospheric, rough
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Tombstone (1993)
Plot Summary:
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 162000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspense, serious, factual, tense, intense, cult classic, spaghetti western, epic, historical drama
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The Homesman (2014)
Plot Summary:
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: France, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, bleak, realistic, depressing, harsh, emotional, suspense, serious, road movie
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True Grit (2010)
Plot Summary:
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and adventure on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 353000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, scenic, visually appealing, serious, captivating, dark
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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