"It is the single genre that is wholly American; even though other countries have made their own Westerns, the American Western remains the purest form of the genre. The Western is part of the culture of the United States, a part of their history, of the building of a nation. Hard men settling in a harsh landscape, at war with the wilderness, the natives and themselves as many took the right to right, just as many went wrong. Life was cheap, justice was dealt out with a gun, it was a hard time to be alive. The greatest of them are often dark tales of angry men churning with turbulent emotions, doing things that will haunt them for the rest of their lives. The central theme of the Western tends to be one of these: man vs man, man vs the landscape and man vs himself. The best of them manage to bring all these three together and in their collision, art is born. With all that said, here's the list of top western movies ever made." - thecinemaholic.com
