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3) The rider
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After a tragic riding accident, young cowboy Brady, once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, is warned that his competition days are over. Back home, Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland...
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Steeped in authenticity, this is an opportunity to ride alongside modern working cowboys on some of America's largest and most remote cattle ranches. Meet the men and women working on these ₁big outfit₂ ranches, some of which are over one million acres, and still require full crews of horseback mounted workers to tend large herds of cattle. Explore the rewards and hardships of a celebrated but misunderstood way of life, including the challenges...
5) Neon Bull
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This film takes place within the world of the vaquejada, a traditional exhibition sport in which cowboys try to pull bulls to the ground by their tails. Neon Bull explores the vaquejada through the eyes of Iremar, a handsome cowboy who works the events. While he's not afraid to get his hands dirty, Iremar's real dream is to design exotic outfits for dancers.
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High plains drifter: When "The Stranger" rides into the sin-ridden town of Lago, bullets fly as he battles three ruthless gunmen in a pulse-pounding shoot-'em-up.
Joe Kidd: Gunslinger Joe Kidd is hired by a wealthy landowner to quell a range war with Mexican revolutionaries, but he soon finds his loyalties in question when he falls for a beautiful rebel.
Two mules for Sister Sara: A hard-hitting drifter and an unusual nun set off on an action-packed...
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Still holding on, the legend of Cadillac Jack: months after giving two hitchhikers a ride, rodeo cowboy Cadillac Jack discovers their true identities when he is accused of committing their murder.
Walking thunder: Jacob McKay is 14 when his family heads West in 1850. Their journey is halted by a bear attack that destroys their wagon and forces them to set up camp in the rockies.
Love is forever: the story of expelled journalist John Everingham...
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In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman, they feature overlapping casts and crews. The films - The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by vigilantes for crimes they did not commit, are rigorous,...
9) Abilene Town
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Located where the Chisholm Trail ends, Abilene is a bustling cow town largely supported by Texas cattlemen driving their herds to market. Marshal Dan Mitchell, finding it increasingly difficult to keep rowdy cowboys from running roughshod over peaceful homesteaders, tries unsuccessfully to enlist the aid of lackadaisical county sheriff Bravo Trimble. He will need help keeping the peace when, incensed by barb-wire barricades set up by the homesteaders,...
10) 50 to 1
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A misfit group of New Mexico cowboys find themselves on the journey of a lifetime when their crooked-footed racehorse qualifies for the Kentucky Derby.
11) Monte Walsh
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Times change. Monte Walsh doesn't. For him, being a cowboy isn't a job, it's a life. And that's something the fenced-in, corporate-bean-counting ways of the onrushing 20th century must never alter.
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Robert Redford plays an ex-world champion cowboy, reduced to huckstering breakfast food in a suit studded with flashing lights. Jane Fonda is a chic, sharp member of the electronic media, a TV newswoman who'll do anything to get a good story. When Redford rides out of a Las Vegas casino into the desert astride his sponsor's living symbol, a multi-million dollar racehorse, Jane is determined to discover why. She does, one step ahead of a posse of pursuing...
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It tells the story of the aftermath of the Civil War and how the United States transformed into the "land of opportunity" spanning the years 1865 to 1890. Viewers will be transported into the violent world of cowboys, Indians, outlaws, and lawmen. The eight-episode limited event series chronicles the personal, little-known stories of Western legends such as Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull.
15) The rounders
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Ben Jones and Howdy Lewis are bronc riders. This pair of cowboys who will do any job, except for the one at hand. That job: Saddle a clever, ornery, blaze-faced roan named Old Fooler and make him as gentle as a milk-pen calf. They don't think it can be done, so they start thinking. Maybe they can make a dollar or two by wagering that no one at the rodeo can stay atop him either.
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Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
17) Crossfire trail
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A restless wanderer is bound by a promise to watch after the widow of a dying friend. His vow leads him to a small town terrorized by a saloon owner and his hired gunman.
18) The Frisco Kid
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A Polish rabbi sets out to lead a synagogue in California and must make it through the Wild West to get there.
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