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AFI's list of the ten best Westerns of all-time. All Western movies have flair but these got that extra something.

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Rank   Name Release Directed by Genre(s) Actor(s)
  1. 1
    1956
    John Ford
    Drama, Action/Adventure, Western
    Olive Carey, Jeffrey Hunter, Ward Bond, Vera Miles, Lana Wood, Natalie Wood, John Wayne, Henry Brandon, Hank Worden, John Qualen More
  2. 2
    1952
    Fred Zinnemann
    Drama, Western
    Thomas Mitchell, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly, Gary Cooper, Morgan Farley, Lloyd Bridges, Lon Chaney, Jr., Harry Shannon, Lee Van Cleef, Otto Kruger, Sheb Wooley, Eve McVeagh, Robert J. Wilke, Harry Morgan, Ian MacDonald More
  3. 3
    1953
    Fred Guiol, George Stevens
    Action/Adventure, Drama Film, Western
    Paul McVey, Jean Arthur, John Miller, Brandon De Wilde, Edgar Buchanan, Ben Johnson, Alan Ladd, Ellen Corby, Emile Meyer, Elisha Cook Jr., John Dierkes, Van Heflin, Jack Palance, Edith Evanson, Douglas Spencer More
  4. 4
    1992
    Clint Eastwood
    Drama, Western
    Jaimz Woolvett, Rob Campbell, Richard Harris, Morgan Freeman, Anthony James, Beverley Elliott, Saul Rubinek, Gene Hackman, Liisa Repo-Martell, Clint Eastwood, Anna Levine, Frances Fisher, Lochlyn Munro More
  5. 5
    1948
    Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
    Action/Adventure, Western
    Walter Brennan, Harry Carey, Jr., Joanne Dru, Noah Beery, Jr., John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Coleen Gray, John Ireland, Paul Fix More
  6. 6
    1969
    Sam Peckinpah
    Action, Western
    Enrique Lucero, Sonia Amelio, L. Q. Jones, Alfonso Arau, Ernest Borgnine, Paul Harper , Ben Johnson, Bo Hopkins, William Holden, Warren Oates, Edmond O'Brien, Elsa Cárdenas, Rayford Barnes, Stephen Ferry, Albert Dekker, Robert Ryan, Jaime Sánchez Fernández, Dub Taylor, Emilio Fernández, Strother Martin, Chano Urueta, Jorge Russek More
  7. 7
    1969
    George Roy Hill
    Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, Western, Buddy film, Outlaw, New Hollywood More
    Strother Martin, Donnelly Rhodes, Cloris Leachman, Kenneth Mars, Jeff Corey, Katharine Ross, Ted Cassidy, George Furth, Paul Newman, Sam Elliott, Robert Redford, Henry Jones More
  8. 8
    1971
    Robert Altman
    Drama, Adventure, Action/Adventure, Drama Film, Western, New Hollywood
    Rene Auberjonois, Bert Remsen, John Schuck, William Devane, Shelley Duvall, Keith Carradine, Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Michael Murphy More
  9. 9
    1939
    John Ford
    Drama, Black-and-white, Action/Adventure, Western
    John Carradine, Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Tim Holt, Donald Meek, Berton Churchill, Andy Devine, Louise Platt, Thomas Mitchell, Red Buttons, George Bancroft, Van Heflin, Tom Tyler More
  10. 10
    1965
    Elliot Silverstein
    Drama, Comedy, Action/Adventure, Parody, Film adaptation, Western
    Lee Marvin, Tom Nardini, Jane Fonda, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, Nat King Cole, John Marley, Stubby Kaye More

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