The Searchers, High Noon, and Unforgiven are among the best Western movies that can truly be called masterpieces.

all Westerns from the late ‘60s/early ‘70s onward). Today, the term contemporary Western is often used in place of neo-Western. The traditional Western genre eventually came to an end after ...

After that, the Spaghetti Westerns of the '60s added more bloody violence and thorny moral ambiguity to a well-worn formula, ...