Western movies about the military

List of the best Western movies about the military, selected by visitors to our site: Soldier Blue, No Name on the Bullet, Two Mules for Sister Sara, The Magnificent Seven, True Grit, Hang 'em High, Day of the Outlaw, The Big Country, High Plains Drifter, Once Upon a Time in the West.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrewestern
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrewestern
CountryUSA
Duration01:17

When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.

Markimdb: 7
Genreaction, western
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:56

Hogan, on his way to do some reconnaissance for a future mission to capture a French fort, encounters Sister Sara, a nun in trouble. Before he knows it, Hogan is accompanying Sister Sara in the dangerous frontier while she seeks to achieve a hidden goal.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genreaction, adventure, western
CountrySpain, USA
Duration02:08

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, adventure, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and adventure on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:54

Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrewestern
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genremelodrama, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:45

Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach to life are a mystery to the ranchers and ranch foreman Steve Leech takes an immediate dislike to him. Pat is spoiled, selfish and controlled by her wealthy father, Major Henry Terrill. The Major is involved in a ruthless civil war, over watering rights for cattle, with a rough hewn clan led by Rufus Hannassey. The land in question is owned by Julie Maragon and both Terrill and Hannassey want it.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, western, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genredrama, western
CountryItaly, USA
Duration02:58

This classic western masterpiece is an epic film about a widow whose land and life are in danger as the railroad is getting closer and closer to taking them over. A mysterious harmonica player joins forces with a desperado to protect the woman and her land.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrewestern
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genreaction, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:10

Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama, western
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:14

Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, drama, western, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:21

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genreaction, comedy, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:45

    With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrewestern
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:15

    After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genreaction, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

    A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    Dave Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, western, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:23

    Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredrama, western, crime, biography
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration01:50

    In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot 'Sundance Kid'. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally catches up to Butch, Sundance and their gang. Chased doggedly by a special posse, the two decide to make their way to South America in hopes of evading their pursuers once and for all.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrewestern
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:19

    Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot and to shoot on time and correct.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genreaction, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrewestern
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama, western, crime
    CountryUSA, Italy
    Duration02:18

    At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantasy, drama, adventure, western
    CountryUSA, Germany, Japan
    Duration02:01

    On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genreaction, western, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

    In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the "3:10 to Yuma", a train that will take the killer to trial.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genredrama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:11

    William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrewestern
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:21

    The sheriff of a small town in southwest Texas must keep custody of a murderer whose brother, a powerful rancher, is trying to help him escape. After a friend is killed trying to muster support for him, he and his deputies - a disgraced drunk and a cantankerous old cripple - must find a way to hold out against the rancher's hired guns until the marshal arrives. In the meantime, matters are complicated by the presence of a young gunslinger - and a mysterious beauty who just came in on the last stagecoach.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, western
    CountryUSA, Japan
    Duration01:48

    A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrewestern
    CountryItaly

    Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrewestern
    CountryItaly, Spain

    Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genreaction, drama, western
    CountryItaly, Spain, West Germany
    Duration02:10

    Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of "El Indio," one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories, and his gang.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, western
    CountryRussia, Soviet Union

    Mr Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, comedy, western, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:05

    The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a Bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.

    Markimdb: 7.2

    A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the farmer reveals a talent for gun-slinging that surprises everyone calling his true identity into question.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrewestern
    CountryItaly, France
    Duration01:45

    A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, western
    CountryFrance, Italy, Spain
    Duration01:52

    An ancient Japanese sword is robbed by gangsters from the Japanese ambassador while he is traveling through west America. The embassador's bodyguard, a samurai, goes after them with the help of one of the gang leaders who was betrayed by his fellows.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredrama, western, history
    CountrySweden
    Duration03:24

    A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil war, native uprising and the lure of gold in California.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, drama, western
    CountryUSA

    A pioneering family fights back against a gang of vicious outlaws that is terrorizing them on their newly-built farm on the plains of Montana.

    Genreaction, thriller, drama, western
    CountryUSA

    Sam Worthington stars as Isaac LeMay, a murderous outlaw who learns he is cursed by a prophecy: one of his children will kill him. To prevent this, he hunts down each of his estranged children including long-lost son Cal (Colson Baker). With bounty hunters and Sheriff Solomon (Thomas Jane) on his tail, LeMay must find a way to stop his children and end the curse.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrewestern
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:24

    A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. It seems they're wrong; but Johnny's show comes to Coppertown and Johnny romances lovely gambler Lisa Roselle, whom the miners believe is at the center of their troubles.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genredrama, western
    CountryUSA

    The Duttons face a new set of challenges in the early 20th century, including the rise of Western expansion, Prohibition, and the Great Depression.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genredrama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    In this radically reimagined American Western set towards the end of the Civil War, Southerner Augusta encounters two renegade, drunken soldiers who are on a mission of pillage and violence. After escaping an attempted assault, Augusta races back to the isolated farmhouse that she shares with her sister Louise and their female slave Mad. When the pair of soldiers track Augusta down intent on exacting revenge, the trio of women are forced to take up arms to fend off their assailants, finding ways to resourcefully defend their home––and themselves––as the escalating attacks become more unpredictable and relentless.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, adventure, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    After Custer and the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Indians, everyone expects the worst. Capt. Nathan Brittles is ordered out on patrol but he's also required to take along Abby Allshard, wife of the Fort's commanding officer, and her niece, the pretty Olivia Dandridge, who are being evacuated for their own safety. Brittles is only a few days away from retirement and Olivia has caught the eye of two of the young officers in the Company, Lt. Flint Cohill and 2nd Lt. Ross Pennell. She's taken to wearing a yellow ribbon in her hair, a sign that she has a beau in the Cavalry, but refuses to say for whom she is wearing it.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, western, military, history
    CountryMexico, USA, Spain
    Duration02:01

    One Man's Hero tells the little-known story of the "St. Patrick's Battalion" or "San Patricios," a group of mostly Irish and other immigrants of the Catholic faith who deserted to Mexico after encountering religious and ethnic prejudice in the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War. The plot centers around the personal story of John Riley, an Irishman who had been a sergeant in the American Army who is commissioned as a captain in the Mexican army and commands the battalion, as he leads his men in battle and struggles with authorities on both sides of the border

    Markimdb: 6
    Genredrama, western, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:17

    Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama, western, history
    CountryUSA

    They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, they must walk through it instead of ride. The town dishonors them but the soldiers' Native-American foes do not. Apache leader Victoria and other warriors give the horsemen a name of honor and strength: "Buffalo Soldiers". The troopers' daring hunt for Victorio frames this stirring tribute to the former slaves and other African-Americans of the 9th and 10th U.S. Calvary Regiments. Danny Glover, Mykelti Williamson, Glynn Turman, Carl Lumbly and Michael Warren star in an adventure bringing to light that largely unknown story and the unique moral dilemma the men faced. Atten-hut! "Buffalo Soldiers are riding" through town.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrewestern, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.




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