Playlists > All Things Western, Vol. I

All Things Western, Vol. I
Description:

A playlist dedicated to the Western genre and the movies & tv shows that I like(the serious dramas as well as the humorous ones too)


Creator: Arcangel2020
Posted: 3 years ago
 
Favorite

15 favorites

2409 views

info
Movie: News of the World ( 2020 )
A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl taken by the Kiowa people years ago to her aunt and uncle against her will. They travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search for a place that either can call home.
info
TV Show: Deadwood ( 2004 )
The outlaw camp of Deadwood marches slowly towards civilization, facing its first elections. But the power struggles continue over everything in Deadwood—influence, money, and whores—as the founding camp members form strategic alliances to face down the threat of a powerful newcomer, seeking to remake Deadwood in his image.
info
TV Show: Tin Star ( 2017 )
A contemporary take on the Western genre, Tin Star tells the story of Jim Worth, an ex-Metropolitan Police detective who starts a new life in Canada's Rocky Mountains.Set in a remote Canadian mountain town, where the opening of a new oil refinery fronted by the mysterious Mrs. Bradshaw introduces the small town to a world of drug-dealers, prostitution and organized crime. Police chief Jim Worth is thirsty for revenge after the murder of a member of his family.
info
TV Show: Hell on Wheels ( 2011 )
Hell on Wheels is an American Western television series about the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States. The series follows the Union Pacific Railroad and its surveyors, laborers, prostitutes, mercenaries, and others who lived, worked and died in the mobile encampment called "Hell on Wheels" that followed the railhead west across the Great Plains. In particular, the story focuses on Cullen Bohannon, a former Confederate soldier who, while working as foreman and chief engineer on the railroad, initially attempts to track down the Union soldiers who murdered his wife and young son during the American Civil War.
info
Movie: The Hateful Eight ( 2015 )
In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.
info
TV Show: The Son ( 2017 )
The Son, from writers/producers Philipp Meyer, Lee Shipman & Brian McGreevy and producer Michael Connolly, is a multi-generational epic telling of the story of America's birth as a superpower through the bloody rise and fall of one Texas oil empire.
info
Movie: Bone Tomahawk ( 2016 )
In the dying days of the old west, an elderly sheriff and his posse set out to rescue their town's doctor from cannibalistic cave dwellers.
info
Movie: The Magnificent Seven ( 2016 )
Seven gunmen from a variety of backgrounds are brought together by a vengeful young widow to protect her town from the private army of a destructive industrialist.
info
Movie: Tombstone ( 1993 )
A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating.
info
Movie: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( 1966 )
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
info
TV Show: Godless ( 2017 )
A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who's found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.
info
TV Show: Kung Fu ( 1972 )
Kwai Chang Caine, the half-American Buddhist monk from China, wandering the American West as a wanted fugitive, befriends a homeless boy, foils a bounty hunter, and experiences the pain of love.
info
Movie: Unforgiven ( 1992 )
Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man.
info
Movie: A Million Ways to Die in the West ( 2014 )
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his newly found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
info
Movie: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ( 2018 )
Six tales of life and violence in the Old West, following a singing gunslinger, a bank robber, a traveling impresario, an elderly prospector, a wagon train, and a perverse pair of bounty hunters.
info
Movie: Deadwood: The Movie ( 2019 )
As the residents of Deadwood gather to commemorate Dakota's statehood in 1889, saloon owner Al Swearengen and Marshal Seth Bullock clash with Senator George Hearst.
info
Movie: Hell or High Water ( 2016 )
A divorced father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's ranch in West Texas.
info
Movie: Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 )
The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years.
info
Movie: True Grit ( 2010 )
A stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer.
info
Movie: Dances with Wolves ( 1990 )
Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.
info
Movie: The Lone Ranger ( 2013 )
Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.
info
Movie: Hostiles ( 2018 )
In 1892, a legendary Army Captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.
info
Movie: 3:10 to Yuma ( 2007 )
A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.
info
Movie: The Misfits ( 1961 )
A divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle.
info
Movie: Once Upon a Time in the West ( 1968 )
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
info
Movie: For a Few Dollars More ( 1967 )
Two bounty hunters with the same intentions team up to track down an escaped Mexican outlaw.
info
Movie: A Fistful of Dollars ( 1964 )
A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
info
Movie: The Ballad of Lefty Brown ( 2017 )
A thrilling and action-packed Western, The Ballad of Lefty Brown is a story about loyalty, friendship, and the relentless pursuit of justice.
info
TV Show: The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. ( 1993 )
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. follows a man seeking vengeance against the man who murdered his father. He becomes a bounty hunter although he was trained as a lawyer. Unfortunately his father's killer, John Bly, has his own criminal gang to keep Brisco at bay. But Brisco is aided by his own gang of sorts: dance hall girl extraordinaire Dixie Cousins, rival bounty hunter Lord Bowler, fellow lawyer Socrates Poole and scientist Professor Wickwire. Although the series was set in the Old West, Brisco had an assortment of nifty modern gadgets and then there were the mysterious Orbs scattered about which almost seemed to have supernatural powers.
info
Movie: True History of the Kelly Gang ( 2020 )
Australian bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang flee from authorities during the 1870s.
info
Movie: The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 )
A Missouri farmer joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.
info
Movie: Young Guns ( 1988 )
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
info
Movie: Maverick ( 1994 )
Bret Maverick, needing money for a poker tournament, faces various comic mishaps and challenges, including a charming woman thief.
info
Movie: The Salvation ( 2014 )
In 1870s America, the fury of a notorious gang leader is unleashed when a peaceful American settler avenges the death of his family. Then as his cowardly fellow townspeople betray him, he is forced to hunt down the outlaws alone.
info
TV Show: The Wild Wild West ( 1965 )
James West and Artemus Gordon are two Secret Service agents of President Grant who take their splendidly appointed private train through the west to fight evil. Half science fiction and half western, Artemus designs a series of interesting gadgets for James and is a master of disguise.
info
Movie: Open Range ( 2003 )
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
info
Movie: The Quick and the Dead ( 1995 )
A female gunfighter returns to a frontier town where a dueling tournament is being held, which she enters in an effort to avenge her father's death.
info
Movie: Wyatt Earp ( 1994 )
The story of Wyatt Earp as he interacts and battles other famous figures of the Wild West era.
info
Movie: High Plains Drifter ( 1973 )
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
info
Movie: Hidalgo ( 2004 )
In 1890, a down-and-out cowboy and his horse travel to Arabia to compete in a deadly cross desert horse race.
info
Movie: No Man's Land ( 2021 )
A modern Western inspired by the real-life "no man's land" areas along the Texas-Mexico border. While out on a father-son border patrol, Jackson kills a Mexican immigrant boy. When Jackson's father tries taking the blame, Jackson flees south on horseback, becoming a gringo "illegal alien" in Mexico. Chased by Texas Rangers and Mexican federales, Jackson journeys across Mexico to seek forgiveness from the dead boy's father only to fall in love with the land he was taught to hate.
info
Movie: The Scent of Rain & Lightning ( 2018 )
A young woman investigates the murder of her parents when rumors suggest the man convicted of the crime may not be the killer after all.
info
Movie: The Ridiculous 6 ( 2015 )
An outlaw who was raised by Native Americans discovers that he has five half-brothers; together the men go on a mission to find their wayward, deadbeat dad.
info
Movie: Pale Rider ( 1985 )
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
info
Movie: The Legend of Zorro ( 2005 )
Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega (Antonio Banderas) and his wife, Elena (Catherine Zeta-Jones), to take action.
info
TV Show: Lonesome Dove ( 1989 )
Retired Texas Rangers Gus McRae and Woodrow Call are content to live out their remaining years in the tiny Texas town of Lonesome Dove. Then their old friend Jake comes to town, and tells them about the incredible opportunities for cattle ranching in Montana. Encouraged by this, Call convinces Gus and many other townspeople to go on a perilous cattle drive to Montana. Gus has another agenda though: his former sweetheart now lives in Nebraska, and he hopes for a second chance with her. As the drive goes on it takes on an epic scale, ultimately becoming what could well be called the central event in the lives of all involved.
info
TV Show: The Pinkertons ( 2014 )
Long before the FBI and the Secret Service, the Pinker­ton's National Detective Agency was the most feared law enforcement organization in the land. Experts of undercover operative and masters of disguise, no one ever saw them coming. Set in a young America still reeling from the Civil War, The Pinkertons is an action-adventure detective series that follows Allan PInkerton, his son, William, and America's first female detective, Kate Warne, as they solve crimes throughout the "Wild West" of the 1860s.
info
Movie: Rio Bravo ( 1959 )
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
info
TV Show: Hatfields & McCoys ( 2012 )
The Hatfield-McCoy saga begins with 'Devil' Anse Hatfield (Costner) and Randall McCoy (Paxton). Close friends and comrades during the Civil War, they returned to their neighboring homes - Hatfield in West Virginia, McCoy just across the Tug River border in Kentucky - to increasing tensions, misunderstandings and resentments that soon exploded into all-out warfare between the two families. As hostilities grew, friends, neighbors and outside forces joined the fight, bringing the two states to the brink of another Civil War.
info
TV Show: The Man from Snowy River ( 1994 )
Based on Banjo Paterson's poem "Man From Snowy River", this series takes place in Paterson's Ridge, a small town set in the mountains near Melbourne, during the late 19th century, it follows the adventures of Matt McGregor, a successful squatter, and his family.
info
TV Show: The Young Riders ( 1989 )
The Young Riders was an American Western television series created by Ed Spielman that presents a fictionalized account of a group of young Pony Express riders (some of whom are young versions of legendary figures in Old West history) based at the Sweetwater Station in the Nebraska Territory during the years leading up to the American Civil War.
info
Movie: The Proposition ( 2005 )
A lawman apprehends a notorious outlaw and gives him nine days to kill his older brother, or else they'll execute his younger brother.
info
Movie: Buckskin ( 2021 )
Set in 1820, a Texan fur trapper journeys into the mysterious Buckskin woods in the hopes of saving a lost young boy.
info
Movie: The Wild Bunch ( 1969 )
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
info
Movie: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( 1969 )
Wyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution - escape to Bolivia.
info
Movie: Young Guns II ( 1990 )
In 1881, cattle baron John Chisum pays a bounty to Patrick Floyd Garrett to kill outlaw Billy the Kid.
info
Movie: The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 )
Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits.
info
Movie: The Homesman ( 2014 )
Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy, who in turn employs low-life drifter George Briggs to assist her.
info
Movie: The Warrior's Way ( 2010 )
A warrior-assassin is forced to hide in a small town in the American Badlands after refusing a mission.
info
Movie: Custer of the West ( 1967 )
The story of U.S. Army commander George Armstrong Custer, a flamboyant hero of the Civil War who later fought and was exterminated with his entire command by warring Sioux and Cheyenne tribes at the battle of Little Big Horn in 1876.
info
TV Show: Legend ( 1995 )
Ernest Pratt is a novelist who is confused for his character Nicodemus Legend by the reading public. Pratt's friend, Janos Bartok convinces Pratt to assume the role of Legend in order solve crimes and maybe make a few scientific discoveries along the way.
info
Movie: Quigley Down Under ( 1990 )
Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from Wyoming by an Australian rancher paying a very high price. But when Quigley arrives Down Under, all is not as it seems.
info
Movie: Hang 'Em High ( 1968 )
When an innocent man barely survives a lynching, he returns as a lawman determined to bring the vigilantes to justice.
info
Movie: Jeremiah Johnson ( 1972 )
During the mid-nineteenth century, Jeremiah Johnson, after a stint in the US Army, decides that he would prefer a life of solitude and more importantly peace by living with nature in the mountains of the frontier of the American west. This plan entails finding a piece of land upon which to build a house. This quest ends up being not quite what he envisioned as he does require the assistance of others to find his footing, and in turn, he amasses friends and acquaintances along the way, some who become more a part of his life than he would have imagined. Perhaps most importantly, some of those people provide him with the knowledge of how to co-exist with some of the many Indian tribes, most importantly the Crow, on whose land in Colorado Jeremiah ultimately decides to build his home. But an act by Jeremiah upon a request by the US Cavalry leads to a chain of events that may forever change the peaceful relationship he worked so hard to achieve with his neighbors and their land.
info
Movie: Seraphim Falls ( 2007 )
At the end of the Civil War, a colonel hunts down a man with whom he has a grudge.
info
Movie: Dead Man ( 1995 )
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange Native American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
info
Movie: Never Grow Old ( 2019 )
A once-peaceful frontier town becomes a den of vice after vicious outlaw Dutch Albert and his gang arrive and begin gunning down their opposition. Undertaker Patrick Tate must now choose between the blood money he makes burying the murderers' victims and the threats he and his family face as the death toll continues to rise.
info
Movie: Appaloosa ( 2008 )
Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
info
Movie: Oblivion ( 1994 )
On this planet, it's Cowboys and Aliens.
info
Movie: Silverado ( 1985 )
A misfit bunch of friends come together to right the injustices which exist in a small town.
info
TV Show: How the West Was Won ( 1977 )
Family Macahan's is the story of the white man's conquest of the American West, which we follow through family Macahan valiant struggle for survival. It is the story of mountain men who went west to explore the world beyond the next river bend, the fur trappers who nearly extinct buffalo herds, the gold graves searching for El Dorado, about peasants who became wealthy landowners and the simple people who were on the run. There is also a story about the American Indians. Brave and fearless, but hopelessly outnumbered, these primitive people were the ultimate losers in the battle for land in the west.
info
Movie: The Legend of Bagger Vance ( 2000 )
A down-and-out golfer attempts to recover his game and his life with help from a mystical caddy.
info
Movie: Tracker ( 2011 )
An Afrikaner veteran of the Boer War has just immigrated to New Zealand and is hired to track a man accused of killing a soldier. While hunting through the countryside he captures his fugitive, only to learn that he's innocent of the crime. When faced with the life changing decision to turn him in or set him free only one man will walk away alive.
info
Movie: The Quick and the Dead ( 1987 )
A mysterious stranger rides into a homesteading family's life when they are attacked by a ruthless gang.
info
Movie: Joe Kidd ( 1972 )
An ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader.
info
Movie: The Missing ( 2003 )
In 1885 New Mexico, a frontier medicine woman forms an uneasy alliance with her estranged father when her daughter is kidnapped by an Apache brujo.
info
TV Show: Texas Rising ( 2015 )
Texas Rising is an 8-hour miniseries that details the Texas Revolution and the rise of the Texas Rangers.In 1836, west of the Mississippi was considered the Wild West and the Texas frontier was viewed as hell on earth. Crushed from the outside by Mexican armadas and attacked from within by ferocious Comanche tribes—no one was safe. But this was a time of bravery, a time to die for what you believed in and a time to stand tall against the cruel rule of the Mexican General Santa Anna. The heroic General Sam Houston, the rag tag Rangers and the legendary "Yellow Rose of Texas" lead this story of the human will to win against insurmountable odds. At the end, the Texas flags stood tall and victorious, claiming a piece of history for all eternity.
info
Movie: Bandidas ( 2006 )
In 1848, a New York bank wants to put a railroad across Mexico, so it buys up small banks around Santa Rita, Durango, and evicts farmers on the proposed rail line who owe money. The bank's henchman is the murderous Jackson. He runs afoul of two women, María, the tough but uneducated daughter of a farmer, and Sara, the European-educated daughter of the owner of one of these banks. To feed the now landless people and to seek revenge, María and Sara become bank robbers, veritable Robin Hoods. But Jackson and his hired guns are after them. What are the women's options?
info
Movie: The Good the Bad the Weird ( 2008 )
The story of two outlaws and a bounty hunter in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits.
info
Movie: Jane Got a Gun ( 2015 )
A woman asks her ex-lover for help in order to save her outlaw husband from a gang out to kill him.
info
Movie: The Flood ( 2021 )
When a woman's husband, daughter, land and innocence are ripped from her, she embarks on a brutal journey of retribution and revenge.
info
Movie: True Grit ( 1969 )
A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory.
info
Movie: Forsaken ( 2016 )
In 1872, an embittered gunslinger named John Henry Clayton attempts to make amends with his estranged father Reverend Samuel Clayton while their community is besieged by ruthless land-grabbers.
info
TV Show: Into the West ( 2005 )
Chronicling the struggles, heartache and conquests of two inspiring families, Into the West captures the hopes and perseverance of both the explorers who risked everything to fulfill their dreams and the land's indigenous people forced to watch their way of life disappear.
info
TV Show: The Magnificent Seven ( 1998 )
Seven men from the western United States band together and form the law in a town that, for better or for worse, needs their protection from the lawlessness of the west. They consist of an infamous gunslinger, an ex-bounty hunter, a smooth-talking con artist, a young eastern amateur, a womanizing gunman, a freed slave turned healer, and a former preacher seeking penance.
info
Movie: The Sons of Katie Elder ( 1965 )
Ranch owner Katie Elder's four sons determine to avenge the murder of their father and the swindling of their mother.
info
Movie: The Alamo ( 2004 )
Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio Texas.
info
Movie: The Duel ( 2016 )
A Texas Ranger investigates a series of unexplained deaths in a town called Helena.
info
Movie: Renegade ( 2004 )
In 1870, after a brutal run-in with an outlaw in a brothel, Mike Blueberry becomes marshal in Arizona where he keeps the peace between Whites and Apaches but an influx of Indian gold treasure-hunters threatens to lead to violence.
info
Movie: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ( 1962 )
A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.
info
Movie: Last Stand at Saber River ( 1997 )
After the Civil War, a returning Confederate veteran must reclaim his Arizona land and homestead from the Yankee carpetbaggers who illegally occupy it.
info
Movie: American Outlaws ( 2001 )
When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs. In the course of their vendetta, they will become the object of the biggest manhunt in the history of the Old West and, as their fame grows, so will the legend of their leader, a young outlaw by the name of Jesse James.
info
TV Show: Dead Man's Gun ( 1997 )
A pistol forged in hell brings sorrow to the lives of those who posses it.
info
TV Show: Broken Trail ( 2006 )
Veteran cowboy Print Ritter and his estranged nephew Tom Harte must run 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming. When they cross paths with a low-life trafficker and five innocent Chinese girls, a twist of fate makes the girls Print and Tom's responsibility.
info
Movie: Oblivion 2: Backlash ( 1996 )
On another planet, in the futuristic wild west town called Oblivion, the pacifist sheriff Stone, dandy alien bounty hunter Sweeney, and the lizard-like alien Jaggar are all after Lash, the sexy villainies from the previous movie.
info
Movie: How the West Was Won ( 1963 )
Setting off on a journey to the west in the 1830s, the Prescott family run into a man named Linus who helps them fight off a pack of thieves. Linus then marries daughter Eve Prescott (Carroll Baker), and 30 years later goes off with their son to fight in the Civil War, with bloody results. Eve's sister Lily heads farther west and has adventures with a professional gambler, stretching all the way to 1880s San Francisco.
info
TV Show: True Women ( 1997 )
Covering nearly fifty years of mid-19th-century turmoil, from the tumultuous Texas Revolution to the early women's suffrage movement, True Women is a gripping tale of endurance, love, and above all, gritty female determination.
info
Movie: High Noon ( 1952 )
A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at high noon when the gang leader, an outlaw he sent up years ago, arrives on the noon train.
info
TV Show: Streets of Laredo ( 1995 )
Streets of Laredo was a 1995 American Western television miniseries. It was a three-part adaptation of the 1993 novel of the same name by author Larry McMurtry.A young psychopathic Mexican bandit named Joey Garza has murdered numerous people, and cost railroad tycoon Colonel Terry significant business and money through his deadly train robberies. Captain Woodrow F. Call is a grizzled veteran of the west, a man in stark contrast to the inexperienced urban Ned Brookshire, who has been sent to Clarendon, Texas, from New York by Terry to contract Call's services in apprehending the bandit. They form an unlikely pair as they search for Garza, and soon they learn in Laredo, Texas, that he is not the only outlaw preying on the railroad...
info
Movie: Chisum ( 1970 )
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.