The western film has a history stretching back more than 100 years, but these 10 movies are the perfect place to begin for new fans of the genre.

The 1940s were a decade that saw the rise of the Western movie genre, led by names like John Wayne and John Ford, who brought the American frontier and the Wild West to life on the big screen. The ...

John Wayne as Ethan Edwards in The Searchers, standing next to a horse and looking perplexed. Image via Warner Bros. John Ford is known as a Western legend who was an essential pioneer of the genre, ...

John Wayne's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon shoot reportedly involved a set feud that created the classic John Ford Western's most ...

Every decade has a cinematic genre that forever defines its generation. In the 1930s, it was the kind of screwball comedy that starred Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Clark Gable, and James Stewart. In ...