Out of a cloud of dust and across the silver screen, the American West was brought to life - and we all sat enthralled as we watched it. From the very beginning, audiences came to love the "old West" even though what we saw up on the screen did not always represent the "real West." Cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, entertained us. It was, and remains, one of the most popular film genres ever, even though the heyday of the Western has long...

A rancher hires 11 schoolboys to drive his cattle to market when the gold rush lures all the men away. Along the trail the boys learn how to do their job and become men.

Nine disparate travelers are thrust together in a perilous journey, a ride on a stagecoach destined for Apache territory.

With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.

Washed-up, alcoholic vagabond Ben Chamberlain drifts into a godforsaken railhead town looking for a woman named Alma. When that woman winds up dead, Ben finds himself wrongfully accused of murder by the corrupt railroad chief deputy Vince McKay and his trigger-happy posse. McKay gives him a horse; some supplies and a one-hour head start into the desert before sending his band of cutthroats after him.

Taw Jackson is a rancher who is dead set on capturing an iron-clad stagecoach belonging to cattle baron West Catlin, the man who stole his fortune and good name years before. To pull off the heist, Jackson puts together a crew that includes an old character, a half-civilized Indian, a young drunk, and a cocky gunfighter. Includes production notes and original theatrical trailer.

A U.S. marshal must stop his sons from becoming mixed up with a gang of ruthless outlaws.

Jeremiah Johnson, disillusioned by society, sets out to be a mountain man in the mid-1800s.

"This is a western like no other, combining the mythological scope of that most American of genres with the searing naturalism of a performance by Marlon Brando--all suffused with Freudian overtones and masculine anxiety. In his only directing stint, Brando captures rugged coastal and desert landscapes in gorgeous widescreen, Technicolor images, and elicits from his fellow actors (including Karl Malden and Pina Pellicer) nuanced depictions of conflicted...

Mitchum stars as an alcoholic sheriff whose old friend-turned gunfighter Wayne helps him fight greedy cattlemen.