Looking for something else?
India
Looking for something else?
How the West Was Won backdrop
It's here! The mightiest adventure ever filmed!
Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 500 ratings · 2 Nov 1962 · English · 2h 44m · Released
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Not available on any OTT platform right now.
Cast
The Way West
Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 24 May 1967 · English
In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.
Meek's Cutoff
Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 8 Apr 2011 · English
A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.
River of No Return
Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 30 Apr 1954 · English
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
Badland
Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 1 Nov 2019 · English
Detective Matthias Breecher, hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals, roams the Old West seeking justice. His resolve is tested when he meets a determined pioneer woman who is far more than she seems.
In Old Oklahoma
Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 6 Dec 1943 · English
Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.
Dances with Wolves
Movie · 7.8 / 10 · 9 Nov 1990 · English
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
Rango
Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 2 Mar 2011 · English
When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt and uncover the truth behind a looming water crisis—before his act catches up with him.
Bend of the River
Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 23 Jan 1952 · English
Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...
The Big Trail
Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 1 Nov 1930 · English
Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Cameron and plans his revenge on the harsh scoundrels who murdered a friend of his in the past.
The Last Wagon
Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 21 Sept 1956 · English
When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the murder of three men.
The Indian Fighter
Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 21 Dec 1955 · English
A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.
Boss Nigger
Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 17 Aug 1975 · English
Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk.
