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    • The Gold Rush (1925) Director: Charles Chaplin. The prospect of finding gold in the uncharted territories beyond the frontier swept like wildfire through the popular imagination of 19th-century America.
    • The Wind (1928) Director: Victor Sjöström. While inclement weather is a staple of many a frontier yarn, few come as elementally charged as this silent masterwork from the great Swedish filmmaker Victor Sjöström.
    • The Big Trail (1930) Director: Raoul Walsh. The vast, wide-open spaces of the frontier lent themselves to cinematic visions of escalating grandeur. By the late 1920s, Hollywood had begun to embrace the idea of widescreen presentations.
    • Wagon Master (1950) Director: John Ford. Much like The Big Trail, Wagon Master follows a caravan west, this time to the virgin lands of San Juan river country, where a Mormon family intends to establish a settlement.
  1. 2. There Will Be Blood. A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business. 3. Jeremiah Johnson. A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in ...

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  2. Dec 25, 2015 · Lizzy is a tough, resourceful frontierswoman settling a remote stretch of land on the 19th-century American frontier. Isolated from civilization in a desolate wilderness where the wind never stops howling, she begins to sense a sinister presence that seems to be borne of the land itself, and when a newlywed couple arrive at a nearby homestead, their presence amplifies Lizzy's fears, setting ...

  3. If you want to see movies about the American frontier you should definitely watch our picks for the best Frontier movies.Discover the best…📹 YouTube tool: h...

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  4. 2. Drums Along the Mohawk. 1939 1h 44m Approved. 7.0 (6.9K) Rate. Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins. Director John Ford Stars Claudette Colbert Henry Fonda Edna May Oliver. 3. Jeremiah Johnson.

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  5. Nov 26, 2015 · Here are 10 mountain man movies worth seeking out. #1 The 1971 Western Man in the Wilderness (Warner Archive), the first cinematic telling of the ordeal of Hugh Glass, stars Richard Harris as part of a grand trapper expedition. Horribly mauled by a grizzly, sure to die, the expedition’s captain (John Huston) leaves two men behind to bury him ...

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  7. Oct 11, 2024 · Set during the American Revolution on the New York frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk follows settlers Gilbert and Lana Martin as they face the perils of war. With Technicolor scenery and an authentic storyline, the movie demonstrates their resilience against attacks from both Tories and British-allied Native Americans.

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