20 лучших вестернов в истории по версии издания The Independent:

Top-10:
1. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
2. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
4. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
5. Shane (George Stevens, 1953)
6. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
7. Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)
8. High Noon (Fred Zinnemann,1952)
9. Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948)
10. The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, 1960)

11-20:
11. Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah, 1962)
12. The Gunfighter (Henry King, 1950)
13. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969)
14. The Ox-Bow Incident (William A Wellman, 1943)
15. My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)
16. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
17. One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando, 1961)
18. Winchester ’73 (Anthony Mann, 1950)
19. Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich, 1954)
20. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher, 1959)

50 лучших вестернов в истории по версии издания Vulture:

Top-10:
1. The Searchers (1956)
2. Unforgiven (1992)
3. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
4. Stagecoach (1939)
5. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
6. Red River (1948)
7. The Wild Bunch (1969)
8. Rio Bravo (1959)
9. The Naked Spur (1953)
10. Meek’s Cutoff (2010)

11-20:
11. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
12. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
13. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
14. My Darling Clementine (1946)
15. Johnny Guitar (1954)
16. Forty Guns (1957)
17. High Noon (1952)
18. 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
19. Shane (1953)
20. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

21-30:
21. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
22. 7 Men From Now (1956)
23. Dead Man (1995)
24. The Gunfighter (1950)
25. The Power of the Dog (2021)
26. True Grit (2010)
27. Winchester ’73 (1950)
28. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
29. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
30. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

31-40:
31. The Shooting (1966)
32. Ride the High Country (1962)
33. Vera Cruz (1954)
34. A Bullet for the General (1966)
35. Bend of the River (1952)
36. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
37. Django (1966)
38. The Tall T (1957)
39. Blazing Saddles (1974)
40. The Shootist (1976)

41-50:
41. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
42. The Left Handed Gun (1958)
43. Little Big Man (1970)
44. One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
45. Broken Arrow (1950)
46. The Great Train Robbery (1903)
47. Day of Anger (1967)
48. Buck and the Preacher (1972)
49. The Sisters Brothers (2018)
50. Dodge City (1939)