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This is a list of notable Western films and TV series, ordered by year and decade of release.For a long-running TV series, the year is its first in production. The movie industry began with the work of Louis Le Prince in 1888.
This is a category for lists of Western films by decade. Pages in category "Lists of Western (genre) films by decade" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Annie Oakley; Bucking Broncho; Buffalo Bill; Buffalo Dance; Lasso Thrower; Mexican Knife Duel; Sioux Ghost Dance; These exhibition films are silent shorts directed and produced by William K. L. Dickson at Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio, with William Heise as cinematographer.
When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.
Western films derive from the Wild West shows that began in the 1870s. [3]: 48 Originally referred to as "Wild West dramas", the shortened term "Western" came to describe the genre. [4] Although other Western films were made earlier, The Great Train Robbery (1903) is often considered to mark the beginning of the genre.
Contemporary Western Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: Dick Lowry: Kenny Rogers, Bruce Boxleitner, Harold Gould, Clu Gulager, Lance LeGault, Lee Purcell, Ronnie Scribner, Noble Willingham, Christine Belford: United States: Made for television Western The Legend of Alfred Packer: Jim Roberson: Patrick Dray, Ronald Haines: United States: Biographical ...
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
Pages in category "American Western (genre) films" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,224 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .