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30 Best Westerns of All Time

The western is a genre of movies that are set in the American West in the 19th and early 20th centuries, prominently featuring cowboys, gunslingers, bandits, Native American tribe members, and other archetypal characters of western fiction. Although the genre's roots can be traced even earlier to 1903's The Great Train Robbery, director John Ford is usually considered to have shaped the Western into a distinct film form with films such as The Iron Horse (1924) and Stagecoach (1939), the latter of which ushered an era of extreme popularity for the genre. Westerns differed from most other early movies of the United States in their use of location photography. They also made liberal use of typecasting with actors such as John Wayne, Gary Cooper, and Clint Eastwood reprising essentially the same role in each of their movies and becoming iconic figures in the process.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
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No Country for Old Men (2007)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
4
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
5
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
6
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Rotten Tomatoes®   90%
7
Unforgiven (1992)
Unforgiven (1992)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
8
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
9
Rio Bravo (1959)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
10
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Rotten Tomatoes®   84%
11
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
12
Dead Man (1995)
Dead Man (1995)
Rotten Tomatoes®   71%
13
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
14
The Great Silence (1968)
The Great Silence (1968)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
15
My Darling Clementine (1946)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
16
Hud (1963)
Hud (1963)
Rotten Tomatoes®   83%
17
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
18
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Rotten Tomatoes®   78%
19
Django Unchained (2012)
Django Unchained (2012)
Rotten Tomatoes®   86%
20
Duck, You Sucker (1971)
Duck, You Sucker (1971)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
21
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Rotten Tomatoes®   76%
22
Stagecoach (1939)
Stagecoach (1939)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
23
The Lusty Men (1952)
The Lusty Men (1952)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
24
High Noon (1952)
High Noon (1952)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
25
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
26
The Searchers (1956)
The Searchers (1956)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
27
Red River (1948)
Red River (1948)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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The Gunfighter (1950)
The Gunfighter (1950)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
29
The Big Country (1958)
The Big Country (1958)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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The Man From Laramie (1955)
The Man From Laramie (1955)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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