At the start of the 1980s, much of Hollywood believed the Western to be a dead genre. The box office at the time was largely dominated by sci-fi, action, and even horror projects with the slasher boom ...

Though the genre had faded in prominence at the time, there were a still number of stellar Western movies in the 1980s. The genre films released throughout the decade often took a more nuanced and ...

The 1980 Western Heaven's Gate is now considered one of the greatest American films, despite being a box-office failure that was pulled, reedited, and re-released. Despite being a box office flop, the ...

Many gunslingers and outlaws of the Wild West dreamed of making themselves so well known that they could enter the realm of legend. William "Billy the Kid" Bonney achieved this in only a few short ...