List of Western films: Pre 1920

Western cinema
List of Western films
Pre 1920
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950-1954
1955-1959
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Spaghetti western films

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A list of the earliest Western films released before 1920.

1890s

1894 — 0

• Annie Oakley
• Buffalo Bill
• Buffalo Dance
• Sioux Ghost Dance

These films were all shorts produced by William K. L. Dickson at the famous Edison "Black Maria" studio. All the performers were from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show with Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill himself exhibiting their rifle shooting skills. The two dances featured three members of the Sioux tribe who were thus the first Native Americans to perform on film.

1900s

1903 — 8

• The Great Train Robbery

1904 — 4

1905 — 0

1906 — The Story of the Kelly Gang

1907 — 7

• The Bandit King

1908 — 13

• The Bank Robbery

1909 — 39

• The Cowboy Millionaire
• The House of Cards
• The Red Man's View

1910s

1910 — 126

• Abernathy Kids to the Rescue
• In Old California
• Broncho Billy's Redemption

1911 — 224

• The Abernathy Kids to the Rescue
• An Accidental Outlaw
• The Lonedale Operator
• Fighting Blood

1912 — 336

• According to Law
• The Ace of Spades
• The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
• The Half-Breed's Way

1913 — 311

• The Abandoned Well (film)
• The Accidental Bandit
• The Accusation of Broncho Billy
• The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
• The Massacre

1914 — 244

• Broncho Billy and the Greaser
• Rose of the Rancho
• The Squaw Man

1915

• Keno Bates, Liar
• The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws

1916

• According to St. John
• Accusing Evidence
• The Apostle of Vengeance
• Hell's Hinges

1917

• The Narrow Trail
• Wild and Wooly

1918

• Riders of the Purple Sage

1919

• Ace High
• Ace of the Saddle