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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    The Massacre

    1912, in 0 top lists Check
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    Drums Along the Mohawk

    1939, in 0 top lists Check
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    Hondo

    1953, in 0 top lists Check
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    Thunder Over the Plains

    1953, in 0 top lists Check
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    Friendly Persuasion

    1956, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Horse Soldiers

    1959, in 0 top lists Check
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    Rio Conchos

    1964, in 2 top lists Check
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    Major Dundee

    1965, in 2 top lists Check
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    Shenandoah

    1965, in 0 top lists Check
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    Duel at Diablo

    1966, in 0 top lists Check
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    Quel caldo maledetto giorno di fuoco

    1968 — a.k.a. Gatling Gun, in 0 top lists Check
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    Two Mules for Sister Sara

    1970, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Beguiled

    1971, in 3 top lists Check
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    The French as Seen by...: The Cowboy and the...

    1988, in 0 top lists Check
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    Legends of the Fall

    1994, in 2 top lists Check
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    The West

    1996, in 0 top lists Check
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    Ride with the Devil

    1999, in 3 top lists Check
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