Winchester '73 (1950), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), How the West Was Won (1962), Escape From Fort Bravo (1953), The Hallelujah Trail (1965), A Distant Trumpet (1964), Last of the Comanches (1952), Apache (1954) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Indian War movies.
Storyline: Having a welcome strategic expertise in both the hot and dank Florida swamplands and the local tribe of Seminole Indians, the brilliant and ethical West Point graduate, Second Lieutenant Lance Caldwell, is transferred to scheming Major Degan's Everglades outpost, in 1835. Supposedly impeding the development of white civilisation, the Seminoles must be expelled from their native lands at all costs; all that stands between the aspirations of the venomous commanding officer and the last of the Indian clans is Caldwell. Sooner or later, a dead sentry and a fiery clash with the men of the powerful Seminole leader, Chief Osceola, will stain the vast and impassable marshes with blood, as a strong-willed beautiful woman stands in the middle. Can Caldwell be the voice of reason and compromise?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: trial, florida, native american attack, indian war, epic battle, saber, stabbed with a sword ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1868 Arizona the Apaches led by Cochise are on a warpath and U.S. Army Captain Bruce Coburn is tasked with protecting settlers on their way to Apache Wells. A group of undisciplined soldiers, led by corporal Bodine, make Coburn's task more difficult. When they're sent after a shipment of repeating rifles Bodine and four others steal the weapons and desert. Captain Coburn manages to return to Apache Wells where he vows to capture Bodine and his fellow deserters. Meanwhile, Bodine mets Cochise to negotiate the sale of the stolen repeating rifles without knowing that Captain Coburn has recovered the stolen weapons and has killed the other deserters. Cochise and Bodine chase after Captain Coburn in an attempt to recuperate the rifles which both the Apaches and the settlers need in order to prevail. A race against time ensues.—nufs68
Plot Keywords: smuggling, standoff, war violence, u.s. cavalry, canyon, old west, sand ...
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: revisionist western, u.s. cavalry, cavalry charge, indian war, bow and arrow, medicine man, attack ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the Sioux come to Canada, the Canadians permit them to stay in Canada if they come peacefully. However, some cowboys kill all inhabitants of one of their villages. The cowboys seek to get back their horses, but they pretend to search for a girl who once had been robbed by the Indians.—Robert Kuehne <kuehne@fubini.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de>
Plot Keywords: canada, massacre, murder, american indian, native american, indian war, police shootout ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An artist working in a remote army post is juggling the storekeeper's daughter, his fiancée newly arrived from the east, and the Indian Chief's daughter. But when a vengeful settler manages to get the army and the braves at each other's throats his troubles really begin.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: model, soldier, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, aunt niece relationship, treachery, traitor ...
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