Western Union (1941), Wind River (2017), True Grit (1969), The Big Sky (1952), Soldier Blue (1970), The Lone Ranger (1955), Day of the Evil Gun (1968), White Feather (1955) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Indian Territory movies.
Storyline: An outlaw (Randolph Scott) joins an engineer's (Dean Jagger) crew stringing telegraph line from Omaha to Salt Lake City.
Plot Keywords: brother, engineer, bank robber, scout, native american, tense, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: East of Boulder Flats, deep into the vast and unforgiving white territory of the Wind River Indian Reservation, the seasoned game tracker, Cory Lambert, discovers the frozen body of the young Native American, Natalie. As this is a federal crime, the F.B.I. dispatches the inexperienced but courageous agent Jane Banner to lead the investigation, however, the unprepared outsider will soon team up with Cory to unravel the mystery of Natalie's murder. Before long, Cory will inevitably have to face his own past, while at the same time, both he and Jane are thirsting to see justice done. In the end, will this be a fruitful alliance?
Plot Keywords: fbi agent, police officer, native american, animal-control officer, victim, hunter, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy, Mattie Ross, (Kim Darby), on a mission of "justice", which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, "Rooster" Cogburn (John Wayne), because he has "grit", and a reputation of getting the job done. The two are joined by a Texas Ranger, La Boeuf, (Glen Campbell), who is looking for the same man (Jeff Corey) for a separate murder in Texas. Their odyssey takes them from Fort Smith, Arkansas, deep into the Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) to find their man.
Plot Keywords: marshal, tomboy, texas ranger, criminal, doctor, attorney, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of furs from friendly Blackfoot Indians. The problem is that they have to get through hostile Indian territory first and they find that they have seriously underestimated the difficulties they will undergo. The large body of men who started the journey are gradually whittled down until only a hardy few, like Deakins, are left.—Alfred Jingle
Plot Keywords: trader, indian, friend, man, cowboy, princess, spectacular ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta, and his disgust for her anti-American beliefs. They reach the cavalry campsite on the eve of an attack on a Cheyenne village, where Honus will learn which side has really been telling him the truth.—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
Plot Keywords: private, fiancée, indian, brutal, uneasy, disturbing, indian territory ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kilgore to mine silver on Indian land. The mountain he wants is sacred to the Indians.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: rancher, governor, indian, sidekick, cavalryman, the lone ranger, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gunfighter Lorn Warfield returns home after an absence of three years. Lorn finds his ranch in ruin. His neighbor, Owen Forbes, informs Lorn that his ranch was raided by the Apaches who kidnapped his wife and two children. Lorn decides to find the Apache camp and rescue his wife and daughters. His neighbor, Owen, also joins Lorn in his quest. The two men don't get along because Owen courted Lorn's wife in Lorn's absence. Angie consented to Owen's courtship only because she believed her husband Lorn to be dead. Despite the tension between Lorn and Owen the two men are determined to find Angie and her daughters. Things get really hard when Lorn and Owen run into Mexican bandits, army deserters and Apaches.—nufs68
Plot Keywords: gunslinger, trader, bandit, apache, neighbor, rival, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The year is 1877. Against the backdrop of the challenging peace treaty negotiations between the Washington government and the proud Native-American tribes, the young civilian surveyor, Josh Tanner, arrives in the turbulent state of Wyoming. To pave the way for settlers to move in the territory, Colonel Lindsay is in charge of the peace mission; however, even though most tribes are receptive, Little Dog, the war-hungry son of the Cheyenne leader, Chief Broken Hand, threatens to put in jeopardy the delicate negotiations. And, as if that weren't enough, Tanner falls in love with Appearing Day, the beautiful sister of Little Dog, and fiancée of the battle-scarred tribesman, American Horse. Now, the two Cheyenne warriors prefer to die fighting. Is all hope lost?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: surveyor, military officer, native american, warrior, love interest, beautiful woman, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the 1840s, trappers with government backing push the Yellow Hands Sioux off their sacred land; they retreat into an apocalyptic spirituality, passively waiting for supernatural wrath to descend on their usurpers. Meanwhile, in England, Lord John Morgan feels his spirit weaken, so he returns to America to live again with the Yellow Hand. Finding them dispirited, he invigorates them as well as himself through self-imposed torture and other rituals. Once he convinces the clan to take direct action, Horse must devise a strategy to take the trappers' fort. The clan's women and boys take on special assignments to aid the assault to regain the sacred land.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: lord, fur trapper, tribal leader, passionate, engaging, wild west, indian territory ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Under very suspicious circumstances, the telegraph line is out in Medicine Bend, a dusty town in 1870s Indian Territory. To investigate the situation and shed light on the mystery, U.S. Cavalry First Sergeant Mike Merry assembles a detail and proceeds at once to the town, along with Sergeant Chip Deal and Sergeant Larry Barrett. On their way, they cross paths with the trumpet-playing former slave, Jonah Williams, who joins in, dreaming of becoming a trooper. Now, against the backdrop of the picturesque but unforgiving landscapes of the Wild West, a sinister conspiracy is afoot as no Sioux is on the warpath. But, who is behind the Medicine Bend incident? Can the three sergeants get to the bottom of it and live to tell the tale?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: sergeant, indian, woman, soldier, amusing, playful, cool ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1876, Duncan MacDonald joins the new, 300-member Mounted Police in western Canada, just in time for a dangerous mission. It seems the Cree Indians, raiding across the border in Montana, took two hostages for their safe return to Canada. But MacDonald, with only scout Natayo to help, will need all his diplomacy and then some to extract the captives from the midst of a thousand Cree.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: mountie, native american, escaped convict, soldier, guide, hostage, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react with violence, resulting in the famous Last Stand at Little Bighorn. Parrish, a friend to the Sioux, tries to prevent the bloodshed, but is court- martialed for "collaborating" with the enemy. Sitting Bull, however, manages to intercede with President Grant on Parrish's behalf.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: major, crazy horse, ulysses s. grant, native american, profound, rousing, battlefield ...
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