The life story of a white boy rescued and brought up by Cheyenne Indians, whose name for themselves is, literally, 'the human beings'. From childhood, through Little Big Horn to reminiscences, the film pulls no punches and presents the white man in a pretty bad light. A great movie! find out more...

Set during the 1920s in West Virginia, Matewan is a small mining town whose workers have responded with a strike to the coal company's announcement of a wage cut. The bosses reply to this act of defiance but bringing black and Italian workers to take over their jobs. A lone stranger (a Union organiser) arrives in town to unite the locals against the tooled-up heavies and, as the tension escalates, a violent end to the standoff seems inevitable. Sayles' powerful gripping movie never compromises i find out more...

Suberb performances both from the leads and the assembled extras on yet another Altman masterpiece. Here he subverts the excepted modes of the Western genre with Beatty as the non-heroic McCabe and Christie as third-rate Madam. Life in the West probably was like this, but never is in the films. find out more...

Ford's revered Western, with the superbly haunted Fonda as Wyatt Earp, forced to put on his sheriff's badge one last time. Doc Halliday and the Clanton boys want to take over Tombstone, and only Earp can prevent them. An authentically constructed movie with a melancholy atmosphere, and the famous OK Corral shootout as its climax. find out more...

Leone's superb all-encompassing epic portraying the death of the mythical 'Wild West'. A superb cast, the collaborations of Bertolucci and Argento, and Morricone's brilliantly atmospheric score all add to the incredible style and weight of Leone's creation. A true cinematic masterpiece! A candidate for greatest movie ever made, if you haven't... then you must. find out more...

Running from the law after a bank heist in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to nick the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be caught. Years later, Rio escapes from prison and hunts down Dad, now a respectable sheriff in California and living in fear of Rio's return. find out more...

A stunningly photographed epic western and Peckinpah's finest film. This is a tale of two old friends forced onto opposite sides of the law by the greed of cattle barons. A brilliant portrait of the arbitriness of the law during the twilight years of the Wild West. Essential viewing and, of course, there's Bob Dylan's soundtrack. find out more...

Frontiersman Vern Haskell (Arthur Kennedy) wanders the West obsessed with finding the culprits responsible for murdering his fiancee. His quest leads him to Chuck-a-Luck - the film's original title - a combination horse ranch and criminal hideout overseen by saloon chanteuse Altar Keane (Marlene Dietrich). Posing as an escaped criminal Haskell falls in with murderous gunslinger Frenchy Fairmont (Mel Ferrer) and gradually becomes indistinguishable from the men he is hunting. find out more...

An ex-lawman agrees to escort a shipment of gold cross-country, but runs into trouble when the men hired to help him turn out to lack the same moral backbone as their boss, and plot to steal the gold. A typically classy and visceral western from the master of the genre. Sam Peckinpah. find out more...

One of the all-time great westerns with John Wayne as the small town marshall struggling to hang on to a murderer, whilst holding off a posse of villains determined to rescue him, until the state magistrate arrives. Refusing offers of assistance from sympathetic townsfolk due to their age/sex/infirmity, the tension builds as the Duke is forced to swallow his pride, realising he needs all the help he can get. Excellently acted, with some superb set pieces and even a couple of songs from Ricky Nel find out more...