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 1966 25 great titles Best: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  2. #2 1967 25 great titles Best: The Big Gundown
  3. #3 1968 25 great titles Best: Once Upon a Time in the West
  4. #4 1970 25 great titles Best: They Call Me Trinity
  5. #5 1971 25 great titles Best: Duck, You Sucker
  6. #6 1965 25 great titles Best: For a Few Dollars More
  7. #7 1956 25 great titles Best: The Searchers
  8. #8 1969 25 great titles Best: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  9. #9 1954 25 great titles Best: Johnny Guitar
  10. #10 1972 25 great titles Best: Kung Fu
  11. #11 1955 25 great titles Best: Bad Day at Black Rock
  12. #12 1959 23 great titles Best: Rio Bravo
  13. #13 2016 23 great titles Best: Westworld
  14. #14 1958 22 great titles Best: The Big Country
  15. #15 2022 21 great titles Best: 1923
  16. #16 1950 20 great titles Best: Winchester '73
  17. #17 1952 20 great titles Best: High Noon
  18. #18 2021 20 great titles Best: 1883
  19. #19 1957 19 great titles Best: Zorro
  20. #20 1964 19 great titles Best: A Fistful of Dollars
  21. #21 2025 19 great titles Best: American Primeval
  22. #22 1953 19 great titles Best: Shane
  23. #23 1973 18 great titles Best: High Plains Drifter
  24. #24 1975 17 great titles Best: Boss Nigger
  25. #25 1948 16 great titles Best: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  26. #26 1994 17 great titles Best: Legends of the Fall
  27. #27 2023 16 great titles Best: Faraway Downs
  28. #28 2019 15 great titles Best: Warrior
  29. #29 1951 14 great titles Best: El Siete Machos
  30. #30 2018 14 great titles Best: Yellowstone
  31. #31 2014 14 great titles Best: When Calls the Heart
  32. #32 2020 13 great titles Best: Emperor
  33. #33 2007 13 great titles Best: No Country for Old Men
  34. #34 2017 13 great titles Best: Godless
  35. #35 1976 13 great titles Best: The Outlaw Josey Wales
  36. #36 1974 12 great titles Best: Little House on the Prairie
  37. #37 1993 12 great titles Best: Tombstone
  38. #38 1960 12 great titles Best: The Magnificent Seven
  39. #39 2015 12 great titles Best: The Hateful Eight
  40. #40 1940 11 great titles Best: The Westerner