Iowa-born Marion Morrison (1907-1979) was destined to become world-famous as John Wayne. The 6'4" actor, director and producer epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon with his distinctive speech and swaggering walk in his films.

Set in a mining town in the 1880s, THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD is based on the classic novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn with a screenplay by award-winning filmmaker Anne Makepeace (Tribal Justice). Upon its release in 1990, the film won immediate acclaim for its portrayal of the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. She is trafficked to a nefarious saloonkeeper in Idaho's gold...

An action western about a widowed farmer and his son who take in an injured man with a satchel of cash. Defending a siege, the farmer reveals a gunslinging talent, calling his true identity into question.

Geronimo, an American legend (1993): The epic story of the Apache warrior who sacrificed everything for his people. Major Dundee (1965): A Union soldier is in charge of a jail in the Southwest when renegade Apaches attack an Army outpost and the officer leads an expedition against them. Missing (2003): In the desolate wilderness of New Mexico, an estranged father returns home to make peace with his adult daughter. When her child suddenly vanishes,...

Joe Kidd, which concerns a land war in New Mexico at the turn of the century, marks Clint Eastwood at the top of his form as a western hero. Like a very classic western, it has gunfights, conflicts, and a slambang finale which has a locomotive being driven through a saloon where the bad guys are hiding.

Detective Matthias Breecher is hired to hunt down the foulest of the Confederate war criminals. As he travels the Old West pursuing justice, his determination is tested when he meets a strong-minded pioneer woman who is far more than she seems.

In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his lover Abby and little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the man's attentions. The Farmer and Abby marry, and she and her "siblings" live in the big house, waiting for the Farmer to die, so...

When famed frontier lawman and Montana's first elected senator Eddie Johnson is brutally murdered, his longtime sidekick and friend, Lefty Brown, will stop at nothing to avenge his death, in an ode to the traditional revenge western set in the vast, desolate plains of Montana.

Taciturn marshal-turned-bounty hunter Morg Hickman rides into a small town where new sheriff Ben Owens is the sole representative of the law. Sensing that the boy could use some seasoning, Hickman makes it his mission to teach the sheriff how to protect himself against the criminal element. The older Hickman and the younger Owens find they are kindred spirits in their dedication. Using the lessons learned, Owens proves his worth by taking on the town...

Horse thief Tom Logan has set his sights on the horses and daughter of rancher David Braxton. However, Braxton has hired the infamous Lee Clayton to make sure that his possessions are safe and that any horse thief is stopped in his tracks.