Movies like Dark Command
If Dark Command's mix of civil war, marshal and kansas, usa stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Dark Command's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Rio Bravo
1959 · Directed by Howard Hawks · 141 min7.8
Why you'll like itWith John Wayne · Shares: marshal · Also western and drama
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
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Dances with Wolves
1990 · Directed by Kevin Costner · 181 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: kansas, usa · Also drama and western
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with…
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El Dorado
1966 · Directed by Howard Hawks · 126 min7.4
Why you'll like itWith John Wayne · Also western and drama
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their…
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The Cowboys
1972 · Directed by Mark Rydell · 134 min7.1
Why you'll like itWith John Wayne · Also western and drama
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster.
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Heaven's Gate
1980 · Directed by Michael Cimino · 217 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: marshal · Also drama and western
Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished immigrants and affluent cattle farmers.
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Rooster Cogburn
1975 · Directed by Stuart Millar · 108 min6.4
Why you'll like itWith John Wayne · Also drama and western
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's…
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Ride with the Devil
1999 · Directed by Ang Lee · 138 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: civil war · Also drama and romance
Friends Jake and Jack Bull join up with Civil War guerrilla fighters, yet after the realities of war set in, they must decide what honor truly means.