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Westerns made a very early leap to film with ''[[The Great Train Robbery]]'' in 1903, and remained popular throughout the next few decades, though their golden age truly arrived in the 1930s.
Enormously popular on TV and in the [[Movies]] in the 1950s and 1960s: ''[[Gunsmoke]]'', ''[[Bonanza]]'', ''[[Wagon Train]]'', ''[[Rawhide]]'', ''[[Branded]]'', ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV series)|The Wild Wild West]]'', ''[[Have Gun — Will Travel]]'', ''[[The Rifleman]]'', ''[[The Big Valley]]''...
Some of the more recent successful TV examples were ''[[Grizzly Adams]]'' and ''[[Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman]]''.
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== [[Film]] ==
* See [[
* ''[[The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly]]'', perhaps the best and best-known of the [[Spaghetti Western]]s. Also the originator of "The Ecstasy of Gold", which [[Metallica]] use to open up their concerts. [[Sergio Leone]]'s other [[Spaghetti Western]]s being:
** [[A Fistful of Dollars]]
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* [[John Ford]] is perhaps the most important director in the genre, responsible for must-watch films like:
** ''[[Stagecoach]]''
** ''[[Drums Along
** ''[[My Darling Clementine]]''
** ''[[Fort Apache]]''
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* ''[[The Proposition]]'', a western set in Australia
* ''[[Quigley Down Under]]'', another western [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|set in Australia]].
* ''[[Back to
* ''[[An American Tail]]: Fievel Goes West''
* ''[[Young Guns]]'' and sequels
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** ''The Far Country''
** ''The Man from Laramie''
* Deconstructions such as ''[[McCabe and Mrs. Miller]]'' and ''[[
* ''[[Tombstone]]''
* Known for epitomizing the hero of the modern [[Western]], [[Clint Eastwood]] directed quite a few of them as well:
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** ''[[High Plains Drifter]]''
* ''[[The Treasure of the Sierra Madre]]''. Unfortunately, most modern audiences only know it for the line "We don't need no [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|stinking]] badges!" as relayed through ''[[Blazing Saddles]]''.
* [[The Bonn Republic|West German]] movies based upon the work of author Karl May, like ''[[
** The German comedy ''[[Der Schuh des Manitu]]'' is a grand spoof of these movies.
** The [[DEFA Westerns]], their [[East Germany|East German]] counterparts.
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* ''[[Crush Proof]]'' is a dark western set in 1980s Ireland.
* ''[[The Burrowers]]''
* ''[[The Warrior's
* ''[[Maverick (film)|Maverick]]'', a rare example of a western comedy.
* ''[[3:10 to Yuma]]'' was a 1957 western film which was remade in 2007.
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* ''[[Posse (film)|Posse]]'', a 1993 western directed by Mario Van Peebles.
* ''[[Django]]''
== [[Literature]] ==
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* ''[[Branded]]'' : The Western meets ''[[The Fugitive]]''.
* ''[[The Lone Ranger]]'' : The TV show is the Ranger's best-known incarnation, but he had previously appeared in novels and on radio, and has since appeared in comics, film, and animation.
* ''[[Have Gun — Will Travel]]''
* ''[[Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman]]'', another rare example of a Western [[Family Drama]] [[X Meets Y|slash]] [[Nineties Adventure Show]]
* ''[[Lonesome Dove]]'', an adaptation of the book.
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* ''Frontier Town''
* ''[[Gunsmoke]]''
* ''[[Have Gun — Will Travel]]''
* ''Hopalong Cassidy''
* ''[[The Lone Ranger]]''
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