Sergio Leone pioneered and dominated this genre, and his magnum opus, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, tops this list of great ‘60s westerns. Starring Clint Eastwood, the film featured original music by Ennio Morricone. Vote up the best 1960s westerns below, and vote down you think other fans should skip. Most divisive: Django

Anyway, the film fittingly came out at the very end of the 1960s and was one of the decade’s final masterpieces, both within the Western genre and more generally speaking. From bold American Westerns like The Wild Bunch to Spaghetti Western classics like Django, these are the best films about the west from the 1960s.

The decline of Westerns in the 1960s was attributed to changing historical perspectives, but iconic films like The Wild Bunch still captivate. Classic Westerns from the 1960s like The Wild Bunch and True Grit feature renowned actors and directors crafting timeless tales of the American frontier.

The 1960s saw the release of some Westerns that felt like holdovers from the 1950s, but even those had additional layers to them, often by being slightly more critical or self-reflective. And then the Westerns that aimed to break boundaries – particularly near the end of the 1960s – were great in ways that older Westerns hadn't been.