Subgenre Sampler
Western: 476 Films to Buy & Rent
- Phantom Empire, The (1935)
- Feat. Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Smiley Burnette
- Oddball children's serial from the thirties has singing cowboy Autry discovering the last remaining inhabitants of the lost continent of Mu living…
- Cimarron (1931)
- Dir. Wesley Ruggles
Feat. Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor
- Set during the Oklahoma Land Rush of the 1880's, a charismatic newspaper editor claims a plot of land and resettles himself, along with his rather…
- Range Feud, The (1931)
- Dir. D.Ross Lederman
Feat. John Wayne, Buck Jones
- A better than B–Western with a young, gangly John Wayne as a ten–galloned Romeo framed for murder while entangled in a feud with his…
- Big Trail, The (1930)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel…
- The film that elevated a young John Wayne from bit–part actor to leading man is this grand saga of a wagon trail, shot in an early form of 70mm.
- Iron Horse, The (1924)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy
- An early silent western presenting an idealised portrayal of the development of the first American transcontinental railroad. Its romantic,…
- American Civil War
- Robert Powell summarises the four year history of America's most costly conflict.