How the West Was Shot: The Evolution of the Western Genre

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This list is a chronological look at the western as a genre. A genre as old as movies themselves, it has gone through many transformations and evolutions.

It aspires to showcase these many variations, starting from the silent era and ending with the Neo-Western, by choosing key films for each venture: Singing Cowboy, Acid Westerns, Ostern, Spaghetti Westerns, Meat Pie Westerns, Revisionist Westerns, Hybrid Westerns, Western Comedies, Superwesterns, etc...

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  1. 169 new

    Annie Get Your Gun

    1950, in 1 top list Check
  2. 78 new

    Annie Oakley

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
  3. 551 new

    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward...

    2007, in 7 top lists Check
  4. 69 new

    Billy the Kid

    1930, in 0 top lists Check
  5. 125 new

    Buffalo Bill

    1944, in 0 top lists Check
  6. 408 new

    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    1969, in 21 top lists Check
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    Chisum

    1970, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Grey Fox

    1982, in 3 top lists Check
  9. 192 new

    The Iron Mistress

    1952, in 0 top lists Check
  10. 99 new

    Jesse James

    1939, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Left Handed Gun

    1958, in 1 top list Check
  12. 437 new

    Ned Kelly

    1970, in 0 top lists Check
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    The New World

    2005, in 10 top lists Check
  14. 86 new

    The Plainsman

    1936, in 0 top lists Check
  15. 112 new

    Santa Fe Trail

    1940, in 0 top lists Check
  16. 12 new

    The Story of the Kelly Gang

    1906, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Straight Story

    1999, in 10 top lists Check
  18. 118 new

    They Died with Their Boots On

    1941, in 1 top list Check
  19. 478 new

    Touche pas à la femme blanche

    1974 — a.k.a. Don't Touch the White Woman!, in 0 top lists Check
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    The True Story of Jesse James

    1957 — a.k.a. The James Brothers, in 0 top lists Check
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    Viva Zapata!

    1952, in 2 top lists Check
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    Walker

    1987, in 2 top lists Check
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