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Movie: Apache Junction ( 2021 )
Apache Junction is an Old West outpost of lawlessness, a haven for thieves and cold-blooded killers. When big-city reporter Annabelle Angel arrives in town and becomes a target, notorious gunslinger Jericho Ford comes to her aid. Now, Annabelle must entrust her future to a man with a deadly past as Jericho heads toward a tense showdown.
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Movie: Old Henry ( 2021 )
Old Henry, an action western about a widowed farmer and his son who warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the farmer reveals a talent for gun-slinging that surprises everyone calling his true identity into question.
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Movie: Rose Hill ( 1997 )
Four orphan boys running from the law in New York stumble upon a baby in a carriage. They name her Mary Rose and take her West with them. Eventually they set up a ranch which they name Rose Hill. Mary Rose grows up to be a beautiful woman and gets involved with a man who kills one of her brothers. The others then reveal that they found her in New York, and she goes back there to find her real family. While she's gone, Rose Hill starts falling apart: her oldest brother has fallen ill and the other two have gone their separate ways.
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Movie: The Canadians ( 1961 )
When the Sioux come to Canada, the Canadians permit them to stay in Canada if they come peacefully. However, some cowboys kill all inhabitants of one of their villages. The cowboys seek to get back their horses, but they pretend to search for a girl who once had been robbed by the Indians.
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Movie: Bad Company ( 1972 )
A god-fearing Ohio boy dodging the Civil War draft arrives in St. Joseph, MO where he joins up with a hardscrabble group of like runaways heading west.
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Movie: Big Muddy ( 2014 )
Martha Barlow, a modern-day outlaw, must reconcile her dark past after her teenage son commits a horrible crime.
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Movie: Bubblegum & Broken Fingers ( 2011 )
"If you don't have your own plan, you'll damn sure be a part of someone else's." That quote kicks off the first of multiple story lines, in the crime ensemble "Bubblegum & Broken Fingers." This character-driven collage of sex, violence and survival is equal parts western, gangster and love stories. We follow the journey of a mysterious silver briefcase and witness the havoc it brings each new owner. The seemingly unrelated stories continuously collide throughout for multiple plot twists. Rodney, a young mob bag-man tries to leave his life of crime but his partner Dominic has other plans. German tourists bite off more than they can chew. A tiny mute hitch hiker has a day she'll never forget. Blix, an escapee from a federal prison, goes on a destructive rampage. Playboy Doctor Sean Steele puts his life in jeopardy when he thinks with the wrong head. FBI agent Hampton and U.S. Marshal Yamato ruthlessly compete for the same arrest. These stories of dysfunction all smash together for a final resolution in the end. "Bubblegum & Broken Fingers" is a bizarre trip around the block that will leave you lifetimes away from where you started.
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Movie: Cry Macho ( 2021 )
A one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder takes a job to bring a man's young son home and away from his alcoholic mom. On their journey, the horseman finds redemption through teaching the boy what it means to be a good man.
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Movie: The Power of the Dog ( 2021 )
Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love.
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Movie: Catch the Bullet ( 2021 )
BRITT, a U.S. Marshal who rarely brings them back alive, returns home from the trail to discover his 12-year-old son, CHAD, has been kidnapped by outlaws - JED and his gang. Enlisting the help of Indian guide, CHASKA, along with CLAY, a deputy who doesn't trust the guide, Britt sets out into dangerous Sioux territory. As Jed lures the Marshal into his deadly ambush, he finds the captive boy a formidable and slippery opponent, with several escape...
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Movie: King of the Grizzlies ( 1970 )
Ernest T. Seton, an American artist and author, tells the story of a mighty grizzly.
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TV Show: How the West Was Won ( 1977 )
Family Macahan's is the story of the white man's conquest of the American West, which we follow through family Macahan valiant struggle for survival. It is the story of mountain men who went west to explore the world beyond the next river bend, the fur trappers who nearly extinct buffalo herds, the gold graves searching for El Dorado, about peasants who became wealthy landowners and the simple people who were on the run. There is also a story about the American Indians. Brave and fearless, but hopelessly outnumbered, these primitive people were the ultimate losers in the battle for land in the west.
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Movie: Shelby Shack ( 2019 )
Sheriff Austin Shelby is determined to uncover the dangerous & deadly facts behind the Nellie Harper murder for hire plot. After an attempt on his own life the Sheriff teams up with a mysterious US Marshal who has just arrived in town.
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Movie: The Last Days of Billy the Kid ( 2017 )
This motion picture chronicles the last days of the most iconic outlaw of the old west. Forget what you have heard before (most of that is rumors anyway) and ride with Billy the Kid as he tries to find sanctuary in a desperate landscape. The high price on his head has made Billy an evasive target for bounty hunters from all over the old west, and Billy knows that every time he rides out, he has a chance of getting bushwhacked. Unlike any other account of the Billy the Kid saga, "The Last Days of Billy the Kid" captures the fury, paranoia and heartbreak that defined the last days of the gunslinger's existence.
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Movie: Blood Country ( 2017 )
Based on true events, Blood Country tells a story of injustice and violence in post-Civil War Mississippi. When Joe Loftin is accused of killing his brother and escapes the law, the honorable Sheriff Dan Lee must bring him to justice.
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Movie: Molly and Lawless John ( 1973 )
In New Mexico, a sheriff's unhappy mid-aged wife aids a condemned prisoner escape her husband's jail and elopes with the young and attractive outlaw to Mexico, pursued by the sheriff's posse.
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TV Show: Rough Riders ( 1997 )
Rough Riders is a 1997 American television miniseries directed and co-written by John Milius about future President Theodore Roosevelt and the regiment known as the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry; a.k.a. the Rough Riders. The series prominently shows the bravery of the volunteers at the Battle of San Juan Hill, part of the Spanish–American War of 1898. 
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TV Show: Buffalo Girls ( 1995 )
A story of the fading Wild West is told from Calamity Jane's point of view, with overlaid narrative to her eldest daughter about Jane's adventures.
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Movie: The Quick and the Dead ( 1987 )
A mysterious stranger rides into a homesteading family's life when they are attacked by a ruthless gang.
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Movie: I Will Fight No More Forever ( 1975 )
In a period when many thought that "the only good Indian is a dead Indian," Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce won the admiration of the American public.
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Movie: Conagher ( 1991 )
Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on a remote homestead. Conn Conagher is an honest, hardworking cowboy. Their lives are intertwined as they fight the elements, Indians, outlaws, and loneliness.
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TV Show: The Ranch ( 2016 )
The Ranch is a comedy revolving around a former pro football player who returns to Colorado to help run the family ranch business. The show takes place on the fictional Iron River Ranch in Garrison, Colorado, detailing the life of the Bennetts, a dysfunctional family consisting of two brothers, their rancher father, and his separated wife and local bar owner.
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Movie: The Hero ( 2017 )
An ailing movie star comes to terms with his past and mortality.
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Movie: November Christmas ( 2010 )
A brave young girl's battle against cancer has an effect on the people around her.
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TV Show: The Sacketts ( 1979 )
The Sacketts is a riveting Western saga that follows the journey of three brothers attempting to find their place in the world. Based on the books by Louis L'Amour, this made-for-television movie stars Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott and Jeff Osterhage as the Sackett Brothers, who head out West after the Civil War, embarking on a grand series of adventures. Glenn Ford, Ben Johnson and Jack Elam co-star in this grand Western.
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Movie: The Shadow Riders ( 1982 )
After the Civil War, two brothers demobilized from the army return home and must rescue certain relatives who have been kidnapped by a band of renegade Confederates.
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Movie: Houston: The Legend of Texas ( 1986 )
"From personal heartbreak to the epic fight for liberation, the glory of the Old West is captured in this grand life story of Sam Houston, the man whose bravery and vision led to the creation of Texas." -- from back of box
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Movie: Tombstone ( 1993 )
A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating.
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TV Show: 1883 ( 2021 )
1883 follows the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. It is a stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America's promised land - Montana.
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Movie: The Decoy ( 2006 )
A deputy must escort a longtime friend to be hanged for the crime of murdering his wife's parents. Along the way he discovers the startling truth about the murders, and is forced to face the real danger.
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Movie: Firetrail ( 2014 )
A Confederate Civil War captain faces challenges as the Union army storms through South Carolina, destroying everything in its path. When he is sent to the front lines his home life suffers, which only compounds the soldier's trouble
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Movie: Billy the Kid: Showdown in Lincoln County ( 2017 )
The true story of how and when Billy The Kid became an outlaw.
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Movie: The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez ( 1983 )
After he is accused of murdering a lawman in 1901 Texas, a Mexican-American farmer flees and manages to elude a large posse for two weeks before he is finally captured.
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Movie: The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams ( 1974 )
After fleeing into the mountains after he is wrongly accused of murder, woodsman "Grizzly Adams" discovers an uncanny bond to the indigenous wildlife of the region after rescuing an orphaned grizzly bear cub whom he adopts and calls "Ben".
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Movie: The Spikes Gang ( 1974 )
Three farm boys in the Old West help a wounded bank robber, who teaches them the trade.
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Movie: The Culpepper Cattle Co. ( 1972 )
Young farmboy who always wanted to be a cowhand talks a tough trail boss into hiring him on a cattle drive.
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Movie: Billy Two Hats ( 1974 )
After a bank robbery, runaway Scottish outlaw Arch Deans and his young half breed Kiowa partner Billy Two Hats develop a father-son relationship but Sheriff Henry Gifford is determined to capture or kill them.
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Movie: The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid ( 1972 )
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield, Minnesota.
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TV Show: Broken Trail ( 2006 )
Veteran cowboy Print Ritter and his estranged nephew Tom Harte must run 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming. When they cross paths with a low-life trafficker and five innocent Chinese girls, a twist of fate makes the girls Print and Tom's responsibility.
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Movie: The Stone Boy ( 1984 )
A Midwestern farm family faces major emotional adjustment after a tragedy results in the death of an older brother.
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Movie: Convicts ( 1991 )
In 1902 Texas, thirteen-year-old Horace goes to work on old Soll's farm to earn enough money to buy a headstone for his father's grave. Unfortunately for Horace, Soll's senility, ill health, and obsession with the convict labor he uses to work the farm, make it unlikely that Horace will ever be paid the twelve dollars and fifty cents Soll owes him for six months work.
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Movie: Lawman ( 1971 )
A lawman from Bannock arrives in Sabbath to arrest all the cattlemen whose wild celebration the year before resulted in the accidental death of an old man.
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Movie: Get Low ( 2010 )
A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.
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Movie: A Night in Old Mexico ( 2014 )
After being forced to sell his family ranch to developers, a financially strapped, but proud senior citizen, and his estranged grandson, find themselves targeted by drug dealers in search of a missing money bag.
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Movie: Joe Kidd ( 1972 )
An ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader.
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Movie: Tender Mercies ( 1983 )
A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.
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Movie: Geronimo: An American Legend ( 1993 )
The story of the Apache chief and his armed resistance to the U.S. Government's subjugation of his people.
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Movie: Open Range ( 2003 )
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
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Movie: Wild Horses ( 2015 )
A detective opens up a fifteen-year-old missing persons case, and begins to suspect that the missing boy was murdered, and that a local rancher was involved.
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Movie: Pocket Money ( 1972 )
Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher.
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Movie: The Cheyenne Social Club ( 1970 )
An aging cowboy finds to his embarrassment that the successful business he has inherited from his brother is actually a house of prostitution.
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Movie: Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion ( 1977 )
A teenage boy gets a job as a Pony Express rider in the Nebraska Territory not long before the Civil War breaks out.
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Movie: A Time to Revenge ( 2003 )
A modern day version of the old Western story of a big rancher "buying" up all the smaller ranches, doing whatever necessary to achieve this and a group of men willing to fight back.
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Movie: Righteous Blood ( 2021 )
Outlaw gun for hire Jericho (played by Michael Pare) is on the run from the law when he finds himself tangled in a situation that will fundamentally change his life, his views and his beliefs forever.
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TV Show: Cimarron Strip ( 1967 )
The Cimarron Strip was the border region between the Kansas Territory and Indian Territory during the late 19th century. Patrolling this vast area was the job of U.S. Marshal Jim Crown, who was based in Cimarron City
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Movie: The Way of the West ( 2011 )
A lone Mountie has come to town to clean up the crime and corruption after finding an innocent man dead. As he sets up home, in town, he discovers endless amounts of illegal activity taking place behind closed doors. Once he uncovers the men behind the crimes he prepares to take them down one by one in the most vicious showdown this town has ever seen.
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TV Show: Gunsmoke ( 1955 )
Marshall Matt Dillon is responsible for keeping the law and respectability in Dodge City in this western action-drama. Gunsmoke captured the courage, character and spirit of the Western Frontier.
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Movie: Forgiven ( 2011 )
Forgiven is an inspirational story in the tradition of High Plains Drifter and Pale Rider with a Faith-based message. It's 1878 and Jake Kincaid (Alan Autry from "In The Heat Of The Night") has just been released from prison for a crime he didn't commit. His heart is seeking vengeance on those responsible for landing him in jail, but he's also very interested in finding the gold he was accused of stealing. In his quest, he finds himself in the small town of Fairplay, California where Kincaid learns that love is far more powerful than hate and that redemption is more precious than gold. Forgiven is Alan Autry's directorial debut and a western the whole family can enjoy.
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Movie: Revelation Trail ( 2013 )
In the late nineteenth-century, a holy man known only as the Preacher confronts unspeakable evil as a gruesome power consumes the frontier.
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Movie: Death Alley ( 2021 )
In 1892, the Dalton Gang set out to become the most famous outlaws in America. That dream would become a nightmare.
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Movie: Snowblind ( 2010 )
After the ice age returns civilizations and nations break down. A gunman is about to be executed when he is pardoned - conditioned on him killing someone. However, he ends up befriending his target instead but trouble doesn't end there.
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Movie: Warden of Red Rock ( 2001 )
In 1910, John Flinders is warden of Red Rock Territorial Prison, in Arizona. When a condemned man's last request brings Flinders into contact with the man's widow, Flinders finds himself falling in love. Meanwhile, a new convict, Mik
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Movie: Skinwalker ( 2021 )
After looting a Native American burial site, a hunter unleashes the legendary Skinwalker, a shape shifting demon, onto an unsuspecting world.
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Movie: Prey for Death ( 2015 )
Baron Emerson uses his vast wealth to travel the world and hunt. He does not hunt animals, he hunts warriors. The Baron arrives at the American frontier and is looking for his next prey. An outlaw gunslinger named Chamberlin who is in jail and set to be hanged. The Baron arranges for Chamberlin to be freed so that he can hunt him like an animal in a bloody game of life and death in the wild west.
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Movie: A Guide to Gunfighters of the Wild West ( 2021 )
Part of the 12 Western feature films to be made in 12 months during 2020: the film tells the story of Tate Butler, a man who accidentally earns a reputation as a gunfighter after one such duel and must from then out face various gunfighters trying to make a name for themselves by challenging him, while trying to escape this wild life for the girl he loves.
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Movie: The Work and the Glory II: American Zion ( 2005 )
In November of 1833, the state of Missouri turned a blind eye as hundreds of its peaceful inhabitants were hunted down and driven from their homes in the dead of night. Against this impending strife, a young man with a divine vision leads a people against the aggression of an anti-hero with a vulnerable past. With more than two million copies sold, the second volume o...Read all
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Movie: The Work and the Glory III: A House Divided ( 2006 )
Joshua Steed returns to Missouri a wealthy man with a beautiful wife; however, the past has a way of catching up. Soon Joshua is tangled in a web of rumors, deception and betrayal that threatens to tear his family apart. Back in Kirtland, financial trouble riddles the foundations of the fledgling Church causing a division, and questioning of the Prophet Joseph Smith's...Read all
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Movie: Bone Tomahawk ( 2016 )
In the dying days of the old west, an elderly sheriff and his posse set out to rescue their town's doctor from cannibalistic cave dwellers.
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Movie: The Far Side of Jericho ( 2006 )
Jericho. In the 1880's. Three women of the wild West, widows of an outlawed gang of brothers recently hanged, find themselves running for their lives from a corrupt posse of vigilantes, mystical Indians and a hornet's nest of villains - all are convinced that our mismatched widows hold the key to the whereabouts of their husbands' missing bank loot and a mysterious treasure. Along the way, the women must find the courage to trust, care and kill for one another, blazing the trail to their destiny. A destiny buried on The Far Side of Jericho.
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Movie: Black Fox ( 1995 )
A former slave affects peace between Native American tribes and homesteaders in 1860s around western Texas.
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Movie: Mackintosh and T.J. ( 1976 )
Roy is a ranch hand and a drifter. He takes a young man into his care and helps him to grow up.
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Movie: Los Locos ( 1997 )
In the Wild West of the 1800s, a gunman is hired to take a group of emotionally-challenged people across the desert.
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Movie: Buckskin ( 2021 )
Set in 1820, a Texan fur trapper journeys into the mysterious Buckskin woods in the hopes of saving a lost young boy.
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Movie: The Avenging Angel ( 1995 )
Revisionist western about a freelance bodyguard hired to protect a Mormon prophet from a gang of would-be assassins in 19th Century Utah.
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Movie: The Rogues of Flat Oak ( 2018 )
A renowned shootist and his friend get mixed up with a con artist and a vigilante group while performing a shooting exhibition in the town of Flat Oak.
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Movie: Wicked Spring ( 2007 )
The story unfolds over a single horrifying night - six soldiers lost in the wicked, burning woods during the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864. When the morning sun rises, it exposes an incredible new danger.
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Movie: Counting Bullets ( 2021 )
One of 12 westerns in 12 months, Counting Bullets tells the story of a small group of cavalry soldiers who are pinned down in a canyon by the enemy. Over the course of a few days, they are forced to face their differences and rely on each of their instincts to survive.
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TV Show: Son of the Morning Star ( 1991 )
The story of General George Armstrong Custer, Crazy Horse and the events prior to the battle of the Little Bighorn, told from the different perspectives of two women. Based on Evan S Connell's best seller.
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Movie: F.T.W. ( 1994 )
Frank T. Wells has just been released from prison after serving a term for manslaughter. Frank's a reasonably honest man and a good rodeo rider. When he meets up with Scarlett, a bank robber on the run, his whole life changes.
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Movie: Frontera ( 2018 )
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TV Show: Little House on the Prairie ( 1974 )
The life and adventures of the Ingalls family in the 19th century American West.
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Movie: Samurai Cowboy ( 1994 )
A Japanese man who always wanted to be a cowboy arrives in Montana and teams up with an African American singer, a bullied Native American, a cute veterinarian and an old cowboy to save a ranch.
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Movie: Shoot First and Pray You Live (Because Luck Has Nothing to Do with It) ( 2010 )
Tale of vengeance -- outlaw style -- as Red Pierre hunts down legendary gunman Bob McGurk to avenge the murder of his Mother and Father.
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Movie: 3 Tickets to Paradise ( 2021 )
AJ Parker, her ex-husband and a federal agent head for a ghost town in Mexico called Paradise in search for a hidden cache of 5000 stolen double eagle $20 gold coins.
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Movie: Last Stand at Saber River ( 1997 )
After the Civil War, a returning Confederate veteran must reclaim his Arizona land and homestead from the Yankee carpetbaggers who illegally occupy it.
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Movie: Once Upon a Texas Train ( 1988 )
An outlaw and a Texas Ranger Captain have a life-long personal feud, but twenty years later, with old-age settling in, they must put their differences aside in order to face the latest Texas problem, the youngest generation of outlaws.
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Movie: Buffalo Soldiers ( 1997 )
Fact based story about the all-black US Cavalry Troop H which protected the Western territories in post Civil War times. The story focuses on the troops attempts to capture an Apache warrior named Vittorio who slaughters the settlers in New Mexico. The film examines the racial tensions that existed between the black soldiers and some of the white soldiers and the truths about the Indian invaders.
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Movie: Honor Among Thieves ( 2021 )
After being injured at war, a civil war veteran returns home to Texas to find he's now enlisted in a new battle; one for his life.
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Movie: Hooded Angels ( 2002 )
A gang of women wreak vengeance upon the society that failed them.
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Movie: Brother Outlaw ( 1971 )
A man is falsely charged with bank robbery, prompting his brother to break him out of prison. Together the pair set out to find the real culprits, and their search leads them to a gang of outlaws headed by a notorious gunfighter.
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TV Show: The Man from Snowy River ( 1994 )
Based on Banjo Paterson's poem "Man From Snowy River", this series takes place in Paterson's Ridge, a small town set in the mountains near Melbourne, during the late 19th century, it follows the adventures of Matt McGregor, a successful squatter, and his family.
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Movie: Recommended by Enrique ( 2014 )
An aspiring actress and an aging cowboy arrive in the small border town of Del Rio, Texas each with a different pursuit. But when things don't go exactly as planned for either of them--the actress slowly begins to realize that the film she came to town for is not at all what she expected (the 'director' is nowhere to be found, the set is run by a group of teenagers), and the associate that the cowboy was supposed to meet had to leave town unexpectedly--the two are forced to wait out their time, exploring the town, and its people. A Latino tale of mysticism, tradition, and the dream of celebrity.
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Movie: Masked and Anonymous ( 2003 )
A singer, whose career has gone on a downward spiral, is forced to make a comeback to the performance stage for a benefit concert.
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Movie: Archer ( 1985 )
During the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the Melbourne Cup race. Their start is 600 miles from Melbourne, and the journey is anything but easy. Of course, the pair have numerous adventures along the way, and in the end Archer competes in the Melbourne Cup race.
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Movie: Hell to Pay ( 2005 )
Ten legendary Western stars are reunited in this action-packed tale of brothers at odds, one a decorated soldier and reluctant hero, the other a gambler who keeps company with card sharks and corrupt women, in a small mining town torn apart by civil war. When they fall for the same woman, the brothers become divided; and one man is left to face a band of ruthless killers on his own. A tribute to the great American Western, is a gritty and mesmerizing tale of love, honor, duty, treachery, and betrayal.
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Movie: Triggerman ( 2009 )
A legendary poker playing outlaw, Triggerman, arrives to town for the wildest gambling tournament on this side of the west.
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Movie: Nubes Rojas ( 2016 )
Arizona, 1875. Travis Lebeck lays unconscious in the desert. A family rescues him and then he decides to continue his way. Everything changes when an unexpected outlaw gang arrives forcing Travis to vary his plans.
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Movie: Adios Compañeros ( 1971 )
A lone gunman tracks down the members of an outlaw gang that killed his friends.
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Movie: Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die ( 1971 )
A debt collector gets involved in a dangerous situation when a corrupt businessman he retrieved 100,000 dollars for doesn't want to pay him his usual percentage for his services.
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Movie: Two Brothers in Trinity ( 1972 )
After inheriting a land plot in a dusty place called Trinity, the antagonistic half-brothers, Lester and Jesse, reunite to pursue different aspirations, only to find themselves neck-deep in trouble. Will they ever fulfil their dreams?