A list of films that are based on

western fiction Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. Well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey from the early 20th century and ...

. Geographically, this page encompasses the frontiers of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well as Australia and South America.
At present, South Africa and Siberia are not included. First Story based movie is Cindrella in 1899 which is based on Charles Perrault folk Story Cindrella. Written in 1697 and Second is Frankestien on 1910 based on Shakespeare Rpmio Juliet.

17th and 18th centuries

Missionaries

Settlers

19th century

(and the Edwardian age)

Unclassified

* * television film.

Frequently filmed: ''
Riders of the Purple Sage ''Riders of the Purple Sage'' is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by scholars to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called ...
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Bushranger Bushrangers were originally escaped convicts in the early years of the British settlement of Australia who used the bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities. By the 1820s, the term had evolved to refer to those who took up "robbery under ...
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Cavalrymen

Cowboys

Entertainers and mythmakers

Explorers

* † Dramatized documentary.

Forty-niners and goldseekers

California Gold Rush

1848–1855

''Gauchos, charros y vaqueros''

Frequently filmed: ''
Martín Fierro ''Martín Fierro'', also known as ''El Gaucho Martín Fierro'', is a 2,316-line epic poem by the Argentine writer José Hernández. The poem was originally published in two parts, ''El Gaucho Martín Fierro'' (1872) and ''La Vuelta de Martín F ...
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Gunfighters

Hunters

Indians

* * television film.

Frequently filmed: "A Man Called Horse"

Lawmen

Frequently filmed: '' Destry Rides Again''

Lumberjacks

Missionaries

Mountain men

Mounties

Twice filmed: ''Tiger Rose''

Outlaws

Railroaders and railwaymen

(The USA has railroads. Canada has railways, as did the rest of the British Empire.) * * TV miniseries.

Schoolmarms

Frequently filmed: '' The Rainmaker''

* ♠ A spinster smart enough to be a schoolmarm falls for a con man.

'' Sertanejos, cangaceiros e
jagunço A Jagunço (), from the Portuguese ''zarguncho'' (a weapon of African origin, similar to a short lance or ''chuzo''), is an armed hand or bodyguard, usually hired by plantation owners and "colonels" in the backlands of Brazil, especially in Nort ...
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Settlers and sodbusters

Outback

("The Never-Never", "the back of beyond", "the back of Bourke")

Sourdoughs and cheechakos

Stage drivers

Teamsters and
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17th and 18th centuries

Missionaries

Settlers

19th century

Unclassified

Frequently filmed: ''Riders of the Purple Sage ''Riders of the Purple Sage'' is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by scholars to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called ...''

Bushranger Bushrangers were originally escaped convicts in the early years of the British settlement of Australia who used the bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities. By the 1820s, the term had evolved to refer to those who took up "robbery under ...s

Cavalrymen

Cowboys

Entertainers and mythmakers

Explorers

Forty-niners and goldseekers

California Gold Rush

''Gauchos, charros y vaqueros''

Frequently filmed: ''Martín Fierro ''Martín Fierro'', also known as ''El Gaucho Martín Fierro'', is a 2,316-line epic poem by the Argentine writer José Hernández. The poem was originally published in two parts, ''El Gaucho Martín Fierro'' (1872) and ''La Vuelta de Martín F ...''

Gunfighters

Hunters

Indians

Frequently filmed: "A Man Called Horse"

Lawmen

Frequently filmed: '' Destry Rides Again''

Lumberjacks

Missionaries

Mountain men

Mounties

Twice filmed: ''Tiger Rose''

Outlaws

Railroaders and railwaymen

Schoolmarms

Frequently filmed: '' The Rainmaker''

'' Sertanejos, cangaceiros e jagunço A Jagunço (), from the Portuguese ''zarguncho'' (a weapon of African origin, similar to a short lance or ''chuzo''), is an armed hand or bodyguard, usually hired by plantation owners and "colonels" in the backlands of Brazil, especially in Nort ...s''

Settlers and sodbusters

Outback

Sourdoughs and cheechakos

Stage drivers

Teamsters and mule The mule is a domestic equine hybrid between a donkey and a horse. It is the offspring of a male donkey (a jack) and a female horse (a mare). The horse and the donkey are different species, with different numbers of chromosomes; of the two pos ...skinners

Telegraphers

Temperance crusaders and teetotallers

Vigilantes

Whalers

20th century

Explorers

Indians

Individualists

Missionaries

Prospectors

References

Notes

See also

Frequently filmed: ''
Riders of the Purple Sage ''Riders of the Purple Sage'' is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by scholars to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called ...
''

Bushranger Bushrangers were originally escaped convicts in the early years of the British settlement of Australia who used the bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities. By the 1820s, the term had evolved to refer to those who took up "robbery under ...
s

Frequently filmed: ''
Martín Fierro ''Martín Fierro'', also known as ''El Gaucho Martín Fierro'', is a 2,316-line epic poem by the Argentine writer José Hernández. The poem was originally published in two parts, ''El Gaucho Martín Fierro'' (1872) and ''La Vuelta de Martín F ...
''

'' Sertanejos, cangaceiros e
jagunço A Jagunço (), from the Portuguese ''zarguncho'' (a weapon of African origin, similar to a short lance or ''chuzo''), is an armed hand or bodyguard, usually hired by plantation owners and "colonels" in the backlands of Brazil, especially in Nort ...
s''

Teamsters and
mule The mule is a domestic equine hybrid between a donkey and a horse. It is the offspring of a male donkey (a jack) and a female horse (a mare). The horse and the donkey are different species, with different numbers of chromosomes; of the two pos ...
skinners