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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Based on Edward Said's influential book, On Orientalism, this engaging and lavishly illustrated video examines the context within which he conceived the book, as well as his cultural analysis of media representations of the Middle East and Islam. In a post-9/11 world, this video provides an indispensable perspective.
42) The Westerner
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders. **Academy Award** winner.
43) Daughter of Dawn
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1920.
Language
English
Description
After disappearing for nearly a century, THE DAUGHTER OF DAWN returns to once again break boundaries for Native American cinema. An all-Indigenous cast directed by Norbert Myles tell the story of a love triangle amidst rising conflict between Kiowa and Comanche villages, featuring thrilling fight scenes, dance performances and more. Newly restored in 2K by the Oklahoma Historical Society, this subtly acted, beautifully conducted silent melodrama remains...
44) The Iron Horse
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From acclaimed director Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, A Prophet), and based on the novel by Patrick deWitt, THE SISTERS BROTHERS is a reimagining of the cinematic Western as a dangerous, witty, and emotionally cathartic exploration of what it means to be a man. It is 1851, and Charlie and Eli Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly) are both brothers and assassins, boys grown to men in a savage and hostile world. They have blood on their hands:...
46) Charro!
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Elvis Presley stars as a reformed gunslinger lured into Mexico and forced to rejoin his former gang. But rather than help outlaws, he stops them from destroying a small border town.
47) The Tin Star
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1957.
Language
English
Description
A rugged bounty hunter. A tenderfoot sheriff. Unlikely partners in the Old West. Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins headline THE TIN STAR, a tough-minded character-driven western nominated for an Oscar. for its story and screenplay. Perkins plays Ben Owens, a greenhorn sheriff who hasn't worn his badge long… and who won't live to wear it much longer unless he gets some savvy help. Fonda, bringing to his role the presence and plain speaking that made...
50) Land of wolves
Author
Series
Walt Longmire volume 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Attempting to recover from his harrowing experiences in Mexico, in LAND OF WOLVES Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire is neck deep in the investigation of what could or could not be the suicidal hanging of a shepherd. With unsettling connections to a Basque family with a reputation for removing the legs of Absaroka County sheriffs, matters become even more complicated with the appearance of an oversize wolf in the Big Horn Mountains to which Walt finds...
51) 49-17
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
49-17 is a charming and suspenseful western parody about a millionaire who hires a Wild West theatrical troupe to relive his past as a miner forty niner. Every sacred western cow is turned on its ear: the patriarchal representative of the law, the Young Man, the Gambler, the saloon brawl, and the Woman.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ren is a park ranger, tasked with duties both mundane and thrilling: breaking up fights at campgrounds, saving tourists from moose attacks, and attempting to broker an uneasy peace between the wealthy vacationers who tromp around with cameras and the locals who want to carve out a meaningful living amid this western landscape. When Ren discovers his friend Hilly, a biologist and wolf expert, nearly dead in the steel jaws of a wolf trap, he hopes...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 1876. Among the warring Indian tribes and lawless gold-rush towns of America's western territories, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West. They are hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled Yale student William Johnson. Determined to survive a summer in the west to win...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
On his way to Australia, frontier opportunist Jason McCullough (James Garner) stumbles into a gold-rush town and decides to earn a little extra pocket money by accepting a temporary assignment as their sheriff. Happily applying himself, McCullough manages to turn the town derelict (Jack Elam) into his deputy, outsmart the dreaded Danby clan (led by Walter Brennan), and fend off the advances of the mayor's daughter (Joan Hackett)...all without breaking...
56) Black Pioneer
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A film about a Southern slave who trekked thousands of miles and rose to become a Western hero.
57) Rio Grande
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1950.
Language
English
Description
In this John Ford classic, John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara are embroiled in an epic battle with the Apaches and each other. Lt. Col. Yorke (John Wayne) leads his cavalry troops to the Rio Grande to fight a warring tribe. Yorke’s toughest battle lies ahead when his unorthodox plan to outwit the elusive Apaches leads to possible court-martial. Locked in a bloody war, he must fight not only to save his family, but also to redeem his honor.
58) The Last Movie
Publisher
Arbelos Films
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
Directed by and starring **Oscar**-nominated filmmaker and actor Dennis Hopper, THE LAST MOVIE follows a Hollywood movie crew in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. When production wraps, the baleful stuntman Kansas (Hopper) remains, attempting to find redemption in the isolation of Peru and the arms of a former prostitute. Meanwhile, the local Indians have taken over the abandoned set and begun to stage a ritualistic re- enactment...
59) One Eyed Jacks
Publisher
Stonecutter Media Ltd
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
Description
After robbing a Mexican bank, Dad Longworth takes the loot and leaves his partner Rio to be captured but Rio escapes and searches for Dad in California. Marlon Brando directed and stars in this western classic. Based on the novel The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones by Charles Neider.
60) Zandy's Bride
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
Academy award winner Gene Hackman stars with Liv Ullman in this story of a Western rancher who sends for a mail-order bride. But instead of the compliant woman he sought, the rancher marries a headstrong wife determined to civilize him. Based on Lillian Bos Ross' novel The Stranger.
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