The Western genre has been one of the most important and influential genres in American cinema history, but it has also been home to some of the darkest and most brutal films of the last fifty years.

The genre goes back as far as film itself, with the first Westerns consisting of silent movies like "The Great Train Robbery" and "Riders of the Purple Sage" at the turn of the 20th century. The myth ...

Clint Walker's Cheyenne Bodie smiles in closeup in Cheyenne - ABC When you think of Western TV series of the mid-20th century, what comes to mind? "Bonanza?" "Gunsmoke?" "Rawhide?" Maybe even "The ...

A new MoMA retrospective tracks how Universal Pictures used the western to explore changing American morals. By Jason Bailey Clint Eastwood once said jazz music and western movies are perhaps the only ...