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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.
Most of the characteristics of Western films were part of 19th-century popular Western fiction, and were firmly in place before film became a popular art form. [14] [page needed] Film critic Philip French has said that the Western is "a commercial formula with rules as fixed and immutable as the Kabuki Theater." [15]: 12
With an all-star cast of veritable legends including Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, and Eli Wallach as the villain, This western was adapted from the phenomenal Akira Kurosawa film ...
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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