Items12The creator’s order
  1. 1Godless (2017)Godless (2017) 8.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 22 Nov 2017An outlaw's arrival threatens a mining town where women have had to rebuild practical authority after catastrophe. The seven-part story uses landscape, work and the question of who can defend a community to refresh familiar Western machinery. It is a strong completed starting point, with sexual…0
  2. 2The English (2022)The English (2022) 7.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired 10 Nov 2022A grieving Englishwoman and a Pawnee former cavalry scout cross a landscape shaped by promises other people never intended to keep. The six-part drama makes land ownership and personal history more consequential than a simple revenge route. Its stylised language and saturated vistas are striking,…0
  3. 3Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023)Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023) 7.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 5 Nov 2023David Oyelowo's Reeves moves from enslavement into the compromised authority of a federal lawman. The eight-part dramatisation is interested in what enforcing a law means when the society behind it has denied your humanity. It shares a producer with Yellowstone but tells its own historical story,…0
  4. 4The Good Lord Bird (2020)The Good Lord Bird (2020) 7.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 4 Oct 2020A fictional young narrator accompanies John Brown from the conflicts of Bleeding Kansas towards the Harpers Ferry raid. The Western borderland becomes a place where righteous certainty can be inspiring, absurd and terrifying at once. Ethan Hawke's forceful performance anchors the seven-part satire,…0
  5. 5The Son (2017)The Son (2017) 7.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 8 Apr 2017Two periods in a Texas patriarch's life expose the violence behind a family's account of its own success. Land, cattle and oil connect intimate loyalty to the machinery of accumulation. Pierce Brosnan's authority gives the saga weight, while its two-season completed television run refuses to treat…0
  6. 6Strange Empire (2014)Strange Empire (2014) 6.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 6 Oct 2014Women attempting to survive in the Alberta-Montana border country confront men who regard protection as a claim to ownership. The Canadian series makes labour and community-building central to its frontier world. Its darker, less familiar perspective is the attraction, with sexual exploitation and…0
  7. 7Damnation (2017)Damnation (2017) 7.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 7 Nov 2017A preacher organising desperate farmers and a hired strikebreaker meet in Depression-era Iowa. This is a later frontier of banks, land and organised labour, with Western rivalries carried into an industrial struggle. The ten-episode run is a muscular, politically charged discovery, but its…0
  8. 8American Primeval (2025)American Primeval (2025) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired 9 Jan 2025A mother and son try to cross Utah Territory while settlers, soldiers and Indigenous people are caught in overlapping conflicts. The 2025 limited series strips away much of the reassuring romance of frontier travel. Choose it for a physically punishing survival Western, with extreme violence,…0
  9. 9Billy the Kid (2022)Billy the Kid (2022) 7.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 24 Apr 2022Tom Blyth's Billy moves through precarious work, friendships and the competing interests behind the Lincoln County conflict. The appeal is watching an outlaw identity form through choices that other people will later turn into legend. Its three-season television journey is the more expansive option…0
  10. 10Territory (2024)Territory (2024) 6.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired 24 Oct 2024A Northern Territory cattle station without a clear successor attracts relatives, competitors and people with older claims to the land. The Australian contemporary Western moves the ranch-dynasty problem into a different economic and cultural landscape. Six episodes offer forceful scenery and…0