The 100 Best Westerns of All Time

A Slant Magazine list from March 2020 ranking staff picks from one of cinema's oldest genres.

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Rank	Year	Director	TITLE
1	1956	John Ford	The Searchers
2	1971	Robert Altman	McCabe & Mrs. Miller
3	1959	Howard Hawks	Rio Bravo
4	1954	Nicholas Ray	Johnny Guitar
5	1968	Sergio Leone	Once Upon a Time in the West
6	1946	John Ford	My Darling Clementine
7	1969	Sam Peckinpah	The Wild Bunch
8	1966	Sergio Leone	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
9	1973	Sam Peckinpah	Pat Garret and Billy the Kid
10	1948	Howard Hawks	Red River
11	1992	Clint Eastwood	Unforgiven
12	1995	Jim Jarmusch	Dead Man
13	1953	Anthony Mann	The Naked Spur
14	1948	John Huston	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
15	1962	John Ford	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
16	2010	Kelly Reichardt	Meek's Cutoff
17	1939	John Ford	Stagecoach
18	1955	Anthony Mann	The Man from Laramie
19	2007	Joel & Ethan Coen	No Country for Old Men
20	1949	John Ford	She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
21	1959	Budd Boetticher	Ride Lonesome
22	2007	Paul Thomas Anderson	There Will Be Blood
23	1964	Sergio Leone	A Fistful of Dollars
24	1948	John Ford	Fort Apache
25	1968	Sergio Corbucci	The Great Silence
26	1950	Anthony Mann	Winchester '73
27	1954	William A. Wellman	Track of the Cat
28	1958	Anthony Mann	Man of the West
29	1965	Sergio Leone	For a Few Dollars More
30	1973	Terrence Malick	Badlands
31	1966	Monte Hellman	The Shooting
32	1957	Samuel Fuller	Forty Guns
33	1973	Clint Eastwood	High Plains Drifter
34	2005	John Hillcoat	The Proposition
35	1959	André De Toth	Day of the Outlaw
36	1957	Delmer Daves	3:10 to Yuma
37	1957	Budd Boetticher	The Tall T
38	1948	William A. Wellman	Yellow Sky
39	1952	Nicholas Ray	The Lusty Men
40	1970	Alejandro Jodorowsky	El Topo
41	1969	George Roy Hill	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
42	1980	Michael Cimino	Heaven's Gate
43	1971	Sergio Leone	A Fistful of Dynamite
44	1930	Raoul Walsh	The Big Trail
45	1972	Robert Aldrich	Ulzana's Raid
46	1961	John Huston	The Misfits
47	2018	Joel & Ethan Coen	The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
48	1956	Budd Boetticher	Seven Men from Now
49	1946	Jacques Tourneur	Canyon Passage
50	2007	Andrew Dominik	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Rank	Year	Director	TITLE
51	1952	Fritz Lang	Rancho Notorious
52	1976	Don Siegel	The Shootist
53	1903	Edwin S. Porter	The Great Train Robbery
54	1949	Samuel Fuller	I Shot Jesse James
55	1961	Marlon Brando	One-Eyed Jacks
56	1962	Sam Peckinpah	Ride the High Country
57	1966	Monte Hellman	Ride in the Whirlwind
58	1976	Clint Eastwood	The Outlaw Josey Wales
59	1974	Mel Brooks	Blazing Saddles
60	2010	Joel & Ethan Coen	True Grit
61	1946	King Vidor	Duel in the Sun
62	1971	Don Siegel	The Beguiled
63	2017	Chloé Zhao	The Rider
64	1974	Sam Peckinpah	Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
65	1972	Jan Troell	The New Land
66	1950	John Ford	Wagon Master
67	2014	Lisandro Alonso	Jauja
68	1954	Allan Dwan	Silver Lode
69	1950	Jacques Tourneur	Stars in My Crown
70	1971	Dennis Hopper	The Last Movie
71	1943	William A. Wellman	The Ox-Bow Incident
72	1950	Henry King	The Gunfighter
73	1966	Sergio Corbucci	Django
74	1972	Robert Benton	Bad Company
75	1953	George Stevens	Shane
76	1971	Frank Perry	Doc
77	2018	Jennifer Kent	The Nightingale
78	1955	John Sturges	Bad Day at Black Rock
79	1952	Fred Zinnemann	High Noon
80	1957	John Sturges	Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
81	1958	William Wyler	The Big Country
82	1963	Martin Ritt	Hud
83	1970	Sam Peckinpah	The Ballad of Cable Hogue
84	1985	Clint Eastwood	Pale Rider
85	2014	Tommy Lee Jones	The Homesman
86	1954	Robert Aldrich	Vera Cruz
87	2013	Gore Verbinski	The Lone Ranger
88	1967	Giulio Questi	Django Kill...If You Live, Shoot!
89	1987	Kathryn Bigelow	Near Dark
90	1960	John Ford	Sergeant Rutledge
91	1957	Samuel Fuller	Run of the Arrow
92	1927	Victor Sjöström	The Wind
93	1939	George Marshall	Destry Rides Again
94	1925	Charles Chaplin	The Gold Rush
95	1951	William A. Wellman	Westward the Women
96	1955	Rudolph Maté	The Violent Men
97	1967	Giulio Petroni	Death Rides a Horse
98	1969	Henry Hathaway	True Grit
99	1993	George P. Cosmatos	Tombstone
100	1939	John Ford	Drums Along the Mohawk

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