Best Westerns Ever

#1. The story Follows the exploits of Clint Eastwood’s character - Blondie, as he competes with the nefarious Angel Eyes, and the foolish Tuco for a stash of Confederate gold

#2. Boasting an ensemble cast featuring the likes of Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda, the movie spins a sprawling, revisionist yarn about violence in the Old West.

#3. Managing to tell a harrowing story about slavery and vengeance while somehow filling it with humor, heart, and blood-soaked action, Director Quinton Tarantino keeps a lot of plates spinning in this very recent western.

#4. After Eastwood’s Manco and Lee Van Cleef’s Colonel Douglas Mortimer set their sights on the same bounty, the two men join forces to take down the vicious outlaw El Indio.

#5. Protagonist - William Munny committed countless murders of men, women, and children before the events of the movie. The absence of Hollywood gloss makes for a dark story feeling somehow bleak yet more human than any Western preceding it.

#6. Based on the 1935 novel of the same name by B. Traven, the story centers on three impoverished men – played by Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, and Walter Huston – as they set out to strike gold in Mexico.

#7. The likes of John Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin, and Vera Miles portray a story of an underdog who’s forced to take on a merciless outlaw. The movie succeeds through its unique style of storytelling, playing with the notion of the ‘Western myth,’ and making its characters feel much more real in the process.

#8. The Man with No Name – played by Clint Eastwood – inserts himself into a tense conflict with three warring brothers. Largely responsible for catapulting Eastwood into pop culture legend, this movie is considered a masterpiece of western fiction.

#9. Between its incredible pairing of Paul Newman and Robert Redford in its title roles, subversion of the typical genre narrative, and famous ending, this movie does almost everything right in retelling on of America's most enduring western tales.

#10.. Directed by filmmaking legend Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, the story centers on Sherriff John T. Chance, his deputy, and a hotshot sharpshooter, who sparks the ire of a ruthless gang of outlaws. The heroes to take up arms to defend their town from the gang’s impending assault.