Western's Greatest Years, Ranked

When was the golden age of Western? We ranked every year by the accumulated weighted rating of its best Western titles — a year rises when it delivered many strongly-rated entries, not just a lone classic. Data from 3eyedraven's catalog.

  1. #1 2022 16 great titles Best: 1923
  2. #2 1965 15 great titles Best: For a Few Dollars More
  3. #3 2025 15 great titles Best: American Primeval
  4. #4 1969 14 great titles Best: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  5. #5 1968 14 great titles Best: Once Upon a Time in the West
  6. #6 1966 13 great titles Best: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  7. #7 2021 13 great titles Best: 1883
  8. #8 1955 13 great titles Best: Gunsmoke
  9. #9 1971 12 great titles Best: Duck, You Sucker
  10. #10 1959 11 great titles Best: Rio Bravo
  11. #11 1972 11 great titles Best: Kung Fu
  12. #12 1957 10 great titles Best: Zorro
  13. #13 2016 10 great titles Best: Westworld
  14. #14 2017 10 great titles Best: Godless
  15. #15 1967 10 great titles Best: The Big Gundown
  16. #16 1970 9 great titles Best: They Call Me Trinity
  17. #17 1993 9 great titles Best: Tombstone
  18. #18 1973 9 great titles Best: High Plains Drifter
  19. #19 1956 9 great titles Best: The Searchers
  20. #20 1954 9 great titles Best: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
  21. #21 1975 9 great titles Best: Boss Nigger
  22. #22 1994 9 great titles Best: Legends of the Fall
  23. #23 2007 8 great titles Best: No Country for Old Men
  24. #24 1958 8 great titles Best: The Big Country
  25. #25 2012 8 great titles Best: Django Unchained
  26. #26 2014 8 great titles Best: When Calls the Heart
  27. #27 2020 8 great titles Best: First Cow
  28. #28 1961 8 great titles Best: The Misfits
  29. #29 2005 8 great titles Best: Into the West
  30. #30 1948 7 great titles Best: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  31. #31 2018 7 great titles Best: Yellowstone
  32. #32 1964 7 great titles Best: A Fistful of Dollars
  33. #33 2024 7 great titles Best: Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
  34. #34 1995 7 great titles Best: Dead Man
  35. #35 2015 7 great titles Best: The Hateful Eight
  36. #36 2003 7 great titles Best: Open Range
  37. #37 2023 7 great titles Best: Faraway Downs
  38. #38 1962 6 great titles Best: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  39. #39 1960 6 great titles Best: The Magnificent Seven
  40. #40 1999 6 great titles Best: Purgatory