Westerns tend not to be associated with rigorous academia. With stories often set in the lawless Wild West, the genre thrives off the self-determined everyman clawing his bloody way through deserts ...

David Thomson curates a 45-film, three-month Classic Westerns series at Stanford Theatre in 35 mm through December.

With their lower budgets and gritty tone, noir westerns were a darker alternative to the slick Hollywood style that dominated ...

There was a time when you couldn’t flip on the TV or buy a movie ticket without running into a cowboy. Westerns were everywhere, filling Saturday matinees at the local movie theater, dominating ...

A spokesman says he died overnight. On screen, Peck's image was one of a decent and courageous man of action. He made his film debut in 1944 with "Days of Glory" -- and from then on, he was never less ...

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ star Gregory Peck had five kids: Jonathan, Stephen, Carey, Anthony and Cecilia Nicole Briese is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her ...

The Big Country, which is on BBC 2 this afternoon, is considered one of the greatest Westerns ever made. The Oscar-winning ...