Movies (fiction) by Category

Bad day at Black Rock 2005, 1955

A one-armed stranger arrives in a tiny desert town, the locals possessing a dark past they want to keep secret, by any means necessary. 1 videodisc (81 min.)

MEDIA 10-4938

 

The ballad of Little Jo 2003

Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to make a life for herself in a dingy frontier mining town. Can "Little Jo" live and love without revealing his/her secret? 1 videodisc (121 min.)

MEDIA 10-5002

 

Buchanan rides alone c2008, 1958

Scott finds himself in an incredibly corrupt border town and ends up in the middle of a blood feud between two families -- neither of which trusts him. 1 videodisc (ca. 79 min.)

MEDIA 10-4920

 

Comanche station 2008, 1960

An odyssey with Randolph Scott as a loner who makes a trade with Indians for a white woman they've kidnapped, but finds that getting her home is not going to be so easy. 1 videodisc (73 min.)

MEDIA 10-4922

 

Day of anger 1968, c2002

Tonino Valerii, Giuliano Gemma, and Lee Van Cleef

A gunfighter rides into town and takes on a young outcast as an apprentice gunfighter. He learns his deadly lessons well and eventually realizes that someone has to stop his mentor from taking over the town. Pupil faces teacher in a violent climactic showdown. 1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.)

MEDIA 10-361

 

Decision at sundown 2008, 1957

Bart Allison and his pal Sam have come to Sundown seeking vengeance on Tate Kimbrough, who betrayed Bart's wife. 1 videodisc (77 min.)

MEDIA 10-4919

 

El topo c2007

After coming upon the scene of a horrifying massacre, roaming gunslinger El Topo demands justice. He learns that the atrocity was committed by someone named The Colonel, and after tracking down the villain and his equally vile men, the mystery man murders them all. A young woman is so grateful to be released from the Colonel's bondage that she agrees to ride with El Topo. But she does not love him and will only pledge her devotion if he kills the four greatest guns in the desert. One by one, El Topo finds the fiends and destroys them. But he is eventually double-crossed, finding himself left for dead among an underground collective of deformed freaks. Vowing to change his ways, he commits to building a tunnel between the cave and the local town. Little does he know that the people in the surrounding village purposefully shunned these lost souls and will do anything--including murder--to keep them away. 1 videodisc (124 min.)

MEDIA 10-4875

 

Far and away 1998, 1992

A poor but proud Irish tenant farmer accompanies the spoiled and headstrong daughter of a wealthy landlord to America in a quest for land. 1 videodisc (140 min.)

MEDIA 10-4110

 

The far country c2003, 1954

Borden Chase, Aaron Rosenberg, Anthony Mann, James Stewart, Walter Brennan, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet, John McIntire, Jack Elam, Kathleen Freeman, and Universal Pictures Company

A solid western saga set against the colorful, scenic backdrop of Alaskan mining camps. 1 videodisc (97 min.)

MEDIA 10-472

 

Fort Apache 1948, 1985

John Ford, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendáriz, John Agar, and James Warner Bellah

A demoted Civil War colonel is sent to command the frontier regiment Fort Apache. The colonel's harsh attitude toward the Indians conflicts withe attitude of cooperation expressed by his second in command, Captain York, and the regiment. The climax of the film, the massacre of the regiment, is depicted as the result of the colonel's arrogance and betrayal of the Apache by a venal government agent. The romantic sub-plot involves the colonel's daughter and a young lieutenant of the regiment. 1 videocassette (127 min.)

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Go west c2004

In Go West: It's 1870 and the Marx Brothers are out to get rich in Dead Man's Gulch. In The Big store: The Brothers reduce an enormous inventory of upscale merchandise into a multilevel disaster as they pursue and evade villains via bicycles, skates, unicycles, broad jumps, shipping chutes, elevator cables, high wires, pole vaults and pseudo-Tarzan chandelier swinging. 1 videodisc (163 min.)

MEDIA 10-5028

 

Harlem rides the range c2006, 1939

A cowboy and his sidekick try to help a homesteader from being cheated out of his property. 1 videodisc (56 min.)

MEDIA 10-3834

 

Hombre 2002, 1967

A white man raised as an Apache faces confrontation with society. 1 videodisc (111 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3769

 

How the West was won 2008, 1962

James R Webb, Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall, Bernard Smith, Carroll Baker, Lee J Cobb,  Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Spencer Tracy, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cinerama, Turner Entertainment Co, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

A western adventure spanning three generations, the breadth of a wild, unsettled country, and fifty of the most excitingly turbulent years of this nation's history. 2 videodiscs (328 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3323

 

Johnny Guitar 2012, 1954

Saloon owner Vienna battles the local townspeople headed by Emma, the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy female rancher out to frame her for a string of robberies. Johnny Logan is a guitar-strumming drifter with a dark past who was once in love with Vienna and has been offered a job in her saloon. Nicholas Ray's epic western is considered one of the most original westerns of all time. The women are far tougher than the men and some saw a bizarre allegory for the McCarthy era Red Scare. 1 videodisc (110 min.)

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Kansas raiders The lawless breed 2007, 1950, 1953

Kansas raiders: Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes. Lawless breed: After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation. 1 videodisc (164 min.)

MEDIA 10-4917

 

The magnificent seven 2007, 1960

Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn, Horst Buchholz, Elmer Bernstein, William S Roberts, John Sturges, Walter Mirisch, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mirisch Company, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

The citizens of a small Mexican farming village hire seven gun fighters to defend them from a ruthless and exploitative group of bandits led by Calvera. As Calvera's next raid approaches, the peasants and the gun fighters work together to prepare to defend the village. 1 videodisc (128 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3719

 

The man from Laramie 1955, 1999

Anthony Mann, William Goetz, Philip Yordan , Frank Burt, James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell, Alex Nicol, Aline MacMahon, and T. T Flynn

A resolute vigilante obsessed with finding the man responsible for his brother's death. Among the suspects are an arrogant cattle baron, his sadistic son, and his ranch foreman.  One explosive confrontation in which Stewart is dragged by a wild horse and shot in the hand at close range is one of movie history's most memorable sequences. 1 videodisc (104 min.)

MEDIA 10-58

 

The man who shot Liberty Valance 2009, 1962

Willis Goldbeck, James Warner Bellah, John Ford, James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine, Ken Murray, Dorothy M Johnson, Peter Bogdanovich, Tara Tremaine, Rob Wilson, Paramount Pictures Corporation, and Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)

"Director [John] Ford brings us to the lawless frontier village of Shinbone, a town plagued by a larger-than-life nemesis, Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin). [James] Stewart plays the bungling but charming big-city lawyer determined to rid Shinbone of Valance, and he finds that he has an unlikely ally -- in the form of a rugged local rancher (John Wayne). The two men also share the same love interest (Vera Miles). But when the final showdown becomes inevitable, one of the two will attempt to get the gunman ... but the other one will wind up getting the girl"--Container. 2 videodiscs (123 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3722

 

Meek's Cutoff 2011

A wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants face the scourges of hunger, thirst, and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival. When they encounter a Native American, they must choose between following their guide or an 'enemy.'.  1 videodisc (103 min.)

MEDIA 10-5552

 

The paleface c2002

A timid frontier dentist finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity Jane as she fights off outlaws and Indians. 1 videodisc (91 min.)

MEDIA 10-5021

 

Pardners 2007

"A rich momma's boy returns west with the son of his murdered father's partner to foil a gang trying to gain control of his family ranch.". 1 videodisc (88 min.)

MEDIA 10-5398

 

Reel injun 2009

Neil Diamond, Christina Fon, Catherine Bainbridge, Jeremiah Hayes, Linda Ludwick, Clint Eastwood, Jim Jarmusch, Graham Greene, Robbie Robertson, Sacheen Littlefeather, John Trudell, Charlie Hill, Russell Means, Adam Beach, Zacharias Kunuk, Rezolution Pictures Inc, National Film Board of Canada, and CBC Newsworld

Travelling through the heartland of America, Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond examines how the myth of the movie "Injun" has influenced the world's understanding - and misunderstanding - of Native peoples. With clips from hundreds of classic and recent films, and candid interviews with celebrated Native and non-Native directors, writers, actors and activists, including Clint Eastwood, Robbie Robertson, Sacheen Littlefeather, John Trudell, Charlie Hill and Russell Means, Reel Injun traces the evolution of cinema's depiction of Native people from the silent film era to the present day. 1 videodisc (88 min.)

MEDIA 10-2171

 

Ride lonesome 2008, 1959

A former sheriff captures a young desperado and waits for his killer-brother to come to the rescue. 1 videodisc (73 min.)

MEDIA 10-4921

 

Rio bravo c2007

On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past-- and her eye on Chance. 2 videodiscs (141 min.)

MEDIA 10-5031

 

The searchers 2006, 1956

John Ford, Max Steiner, Frank S Nugent, John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood, Alan Le May, Patrick Wayne, Peter Bogdanovich, Curtis Hanson, John Milius, Martin Scorsese, Nick Redman, Brian Jamieson, Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), C.V. Whitney Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, and Vineyard Haven Video (Firm)

A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness. 2 videodiscs (119 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3721

 

Sergeant Rutledge c2006

An African-American "buffalo soldier" is accused of rape and murder, but is successfully defended by a white officer during his trial in 1881. 1 videodisc (112 min.)

MEDIA 10-5612

 

Son of Paleface 2001

A recent Harvard graduate heads west to claim his gold inheritance, but finds it stolen and the prime suspect a woman named Mike. 1 videodisc (95 min.)

MEDIA 10-5022

 

The tall T 2008, 1957

Three bandits hold up a stagecoach and take a hostage but are outwitted by a rancher. 1 videodisc (78 min.)

MEDIA 10-4918

 

Tell them Willie Boy is here 2009, 1969

A modern western classic based on the true story of a Pauite Indian named Willie Boy and his bride who become the objects of the last great Western manhunt after he kills her father in a "marriage by capture." As the pressure builds, the events explode in the tragic deaths of Lola and Willie and a turning point for Sheriff Cooper. 1 videodisc (98 min.)

MEDIA 10-4450

 

The Texas Rangers Canyon passage 2007,  1936, 1946

Texas rangers: Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw. Canyon passage: Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850's Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line. 1 videodisc (190 min.)

MEDIA 10-4916

 

The three burials of Melquiades Estrada Los tres entierros de Melquiades Estrada 2006

Tommy Lee Jones, Guillermo Arriaga, Michael Fitzgerald, Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, Dwight Yoakam, January Jones, Melissa Leo, EuropaCorp, Javelina Film Company, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Needing to keep his honor-bound commitment, Texas ranch foreman Pete returns the body of illegal Mexican immigrant ranch-hand Melquiades Estrada to his preferred resting place in the Mexican wilderness. Estrada had been accidentally shot by Mike, a newly-arrived U.S. border patrolman. Pete forces Mike to participate in his cross-country ritual of duty -- a voyage filled with revenge and redemption that will change both men forever -- and bring some semblance of meaning to the senseless death of Pete's good friend. 1 videodisc (ca. 121 min.)

MEDIA 10-1023

 

Thunder over Texas 2008, 1934

Tiny Betty Norton is left orphaned when her dad is gunned down during a bank robbery. Ted Wright steps in and takes the little girl to live at his ranch until a proper home can be found. Aided by his pretty girlfriend, a stable home is provided for young Betty. Ted soon learns that Betty's dad was murdered because he possessed valuable railroad maps. A crooked land speculator and his gang want the maps and take Betty hostage. Outraged, Ted saddles up with guns loaded to save his young charge and bring the crooks to justice. 1 videodisc (52 min.)

MEDIA 10-4924

 

True grit c2011, 2010

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 surprises on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested. 1 videodisc (110 min.)

MEDIA 10-4330

 

Westbound 2009, 1959

"As the Civil War spills our nation's blood, Capt. John Hays (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him."--Container insert. 1 videodisc (69 min.)

MEDIA 10-4841

 

The Wild bunch 1969, 1997

Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah, William Holden , Ernest Borgnine,  Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Jerry Fielding, Roy Sickner, Paul Seydor, and Nick Redman

The brutal story of violent men who lived during the Mexican revolution in the year 1913. It portrays a band of magnificent losers in a dying lawless West. 1 videodisc (145 min.)

MEDIA 10-200