Best John Wayne Movies/TV Shows

72 titles that travel well across time — a personal watchlist for best john wayne movies/tv shows.

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1 Stagecoach(1939)
Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
2 The Searchers(1956)
Movie | Adventure, Western | USA | English, Navajo
3 Rio Bravo(1959)
Movie | Western | USA | English, Spanish
4 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance(1962)
Movie | Drama, Western | USA | English
5 Red River(1948)
Movie | Drama, Western | USA | English, Spanish
6 The Longest Day(1962)
Movie | Action, Drama | USA | English, German
7 The Quiet Man(1952)
Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, Irish Gaelic
8 True Grit(1969)
Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
9 El Dorado(1966)
Movie | Drama, Romance | USA | English, Spanish
10 Fort Apache(1948)
Movie | Drama, Western | USA | English, Spanish
11 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon(1949)
Movie | Western | USA | English, Spanish
12 How the West Was Won(1962)
Movie | Action, Adventure | USA | English, Arapaho
13 The Sons of Katie Elder(1965)
Movie | Drama, Western | USA | English
14 Sands of Iwo Jima(1949)
Movie | Action, Drama | USA | English
15 They Were Expendable(1945)
Movie | Drama, War | USA | English
16 3 Godfathers(1948)
Movie | Drama, Western | USA | English, Spanish
17 The Shootist(1976)
Movie | Drama, Romance | USA | English
18 McLintock!(1963)
Movie | Comedy, Western | USA | English, Chinese
19 Rio Grande(1950)
Movie | Drama, Romance | USA | English
20 Hondo(1953)
Movie | Drama, Romance | USA | English, Athapascan languages
21 Hatari!(1962)
Movie | Action, Adventure | USA | English, Swahili
22 The Alamo(1960)
Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
23 In Harm's Way(1965)
Movie | Drama, Romance | USA | English, French
24 The Horse Soldiers(1959)
Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
25 The Comancheros(1961)
Movie | Drama, Western | USA | English, Navajo
26 The Big Trail(1930)
Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
27 The War Wagon(1967)
Movie | Drama, Western | USA | English, Spanish
28 The Long Voyage Home(1940)
Movie | Drama, War | USA | English, Spanish
29 Donovan's Reef(1963)
Movie | Adventure, Comedy | USA | English, French
30 North to Alaska(1960)
Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English, French
31 Angel and the Badman(1947)
Movie | Drama, Romance | USA | English
32 The Cowboys(1972)
Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
33 The Green Berets(1968)
Movie | Drama, War | USA | English, Vietnamese
34 The Undefeated(1969)
Movie | Action, Adventure | USA | English, Spanish
35 Big Jake(1971)
Movie | Drama, Western | USA | English, Spanish
36 The High and the Mighty(1954)
Movie | Action, Adventure | USA | English
37 Hellfighters(1968)
Movie | Action, Adventure | USA | English, Spanish
38 Back to Bataan(1945)
Movie | Drama, War | USA | English
39 Tall in the Saddle(1944)
Movie | Western | USA | English, Spanish
40 Flying Tigers(1942)
Movie | Action, Drama | USA | English
41 Flying Leathernecks(1951)
Movie | Action, Drama | USA | English
42 Dark Command(1940)
Movie | Drama, Romance | USA | English
43 The Fighting Seabees(1944)
Movie | Drama, Romance | USA | English
44 Island in the Sky(1953)
Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
45 Reap the Wild Wind(1942)
Movie | Action, Adventure | USA | English
46 Rooster Cogburn(1975)
Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
47 Chisum(1970)
Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
48 The Spoilers(1942)
Movie | Drama, Western | USA | English
49 The Wings of Eagles(1957)
Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English
50 Rio Lobo(1970)
Movie | Drama, War | USA, Mexico | English, Spanish
51 Operation Pacific(1951)
Movie | Drama, Romance | USA | English
52 The Shepherd of the Hills(1941)
Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
53 Cast a Giant Shadow(1966)
Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English, Hebrew
54 The Fighting Kentuckian(1949)
Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
55 The Sea Chase(1955)
Movie | Action, Drama | USA | English, German
56 Legend of the Lost(1957)
Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA, Italy | English, Arabic
57 La classe americaineaka La classe am ricaine(1993)
Movie | Comedy | France | French
58 Wake of the Red Witch(1948)
Movie | Action, Adventure | USA | English
59 Blood Alley(1955)
Movie | Action, Adventure | USA | English
60 Trouble Along the Way(1953)
Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, Latin
61 Circus World(1964)
Movie | Drama, Western | USA | English
62 Cahill: United States Marshalaka Cahill U.S. Marshal(1973)
Movie | Drama, Western | USA | English
63 The Train Robbers(1973)
Movie | Action, Comedy | USA | English
64 Brannigan(1975)
Movie | Action, Comedy | UK, USA | English
65 Seven Sinners(1940)
Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English
66 Without Reservations(1946)
Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English, Spanish
67 McQ(1974)
Movie | Action, Crime | USA | English
68 Reunion in France(1942)
Movie | Drama, Romance | USA | English, German
69 Allegheny Uprising(1939)
Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
70 The Barbarian and the Geisha(1958)
Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English, Japanese
71 Tycoon(1947)
Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | Spanish, English
72 Flame of Barbary Coast(1945)
Movie | Drama, Musical | USA | English

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Updated November 29, 2025 · FlickRatings