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 ...