Share your opinions in the thread below and remember to keep it respectful. The best Western movies of all time range from the likes of High Noon in the 1950s to The Revenant in the 2010s, but each one is timeless.

Best Westerns include classic good-vs-evil stories with great characters, still shaping modern action and adventure genres. Westerns have often been criticized as a genre offering the same, tired tropes and recycled stories – something that many blame for the genre’s ‘death’ following its huge popularity from the 1930s to the late 1960s.

At times misunderstood, at times marginalized, at times written off by Hollywood as less than bankable even following periods of extraordinary success, the Western is nonetheless the most enduring genre in the history of American movies.

Before we get to that list, let’s reflect on the most successful Westerns of all time, as well as the filmmakers and actors who most defined the genre. Technically, the highest-grossing Western of all time is Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, which pulled in $449.8 million back in 2012.