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Films & Shows Set during Old West

Runs from1865189530 years wide

Shelfmark Liber CXXIX

Revolutionary Era

14
titles
14 films
3.6/5
average rating
across 14 rated titles
56%
of the span is tagged
14 of 25 titles set inside it

See Old West on the timelineEvery year from 1865 to 1895 the archive holds, and what is set in them

Compare the titles of Old West in the CanonsWhat every title on it shares, what two or three share, and what is proper to one

The Chronicle

The events and themes the archive follows through Old West, in the order they happened, each with the titles that depict it. Press a name to read about it in the threads below.

  1. 1609–1924
    American Indian WarsMilitary
  2. 1850–present
    Pinkerton Detective AgencySocial
  3. 1883–1930
    Wild West ShowsSocial

Cinematic Introduction

Every title set during Old West, by the decade it came out. A series is placed on the chart by its first season and counts as one title entity.

First on screen
Stagecoach1939
Most recent
Hostiles2017

FilmsSeriesAt the archive’s paceeach bar is the titles released that decade

The median title about Old West came out in 1965; the median across the rest of the archive, in 2005, so this period’s titles run 40 years earlier. Most over-told: the 1960s, with 8 titles where about 1.4 would be expected. Most under-told: the 2000s, with none where about 3.1 would be expected.

The gold dashes are how many of this period’s 14 titles each decade would hold if they had been released at the same pace as the other 277 dated titles in the archive. That measures the archive’s own collecting, not the world’s film output, and at these sizes one title moves a bar by a whole step.

Historical Threads

A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pick a tab to read one; they are in the order they are filed on the timeline. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.

Places Connected to this Period

Every place the archive’s titles set in this period name, with each one nested under the larger place it sits inside where that place is here too. The number is how many titles set here name it.

Saltiness Across the Period

No title set here has been given a saltiness score yet. That is unrated, which is not the same as accurate.

Archive Density

56%14 of the 25 titles the archive sets between 1865 and 1895 carry the Old West tag.

This measure can help illustrate cinematic hotspots within a time period by comparing which years of the overarching, actual historical time period are backed up by a cinematic release.

  1. 18650 of 2
  2. 18661 of 2
  3. 18670 of 1
  4. 1868nothing set here
  5. 1869nothing set here
  6. 18702 of 4
  7. 18710 of 1
  8. 18721 of 1
  9. 18731 of 1
  10. 18761 of 1
  11. 18781 of 1
  12. 18791 of 2
  13. 18804 of 4
  14. 18810 of 1
  15. 18820 of 2
  16. 18851 of 1
  17. 18860 of 1
  18. 18900 of 1
  19. 18921 of 1
  20. 18930 of 1
  21. 18950 of 1

21 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries, 2 of them with nothing set there yet. The filled part of each bar is the share carrying this period.

Share of the 24 genre taggings across 14 titles set in this period. A title filed under three genres is in three of these slices, so this is a share of taggings rather than of titles.

Also on the Timeline

Part of and part of it are declared by the archive: one period counted as belonging to another, whatever their dates. Periods overlap freely so concurrent means the two spans share years, and the shared stretch is named. Bounded means it lies wholly inside this one, beginning and ending more than 10 years within its boundaries. Before and after are the nearest periods lying outside this one, with the gap in years shown instead. A shared thread is what the two have in common besides the calendar, and a period lying wholly outside this one can still share one.

RelationPeriodRunsShared yearsShared threadsTitles
Part ofAmerican Frontier1783–19121865–1895American Indian WarsPinkerton Detective AgencyWild West Shows17
BeforeAmerican Civil War1861–18651865none shared6
ConcurrentCentury of Humiliation1839–19491865–1895none shared1
ConcurrentFeudal Japan1185–18681865–1868none shared5
ConcurrentIndustrial Revolution1760–18701865–1870none shared3
ConcurrentNew Zealand Wars1845–18721865–1872none shared1
ConcurrentRusso-Turkish Wars1568–19181865–1895none shared1
ConcurrentVictorian Era1837–19011865–1895none shared8
ConcurrentWars of German Unification1864–18711865–1871none shared1
ConcurrentMeiji Era1868–19121868–1895none shared1
ConcurrentGilded Age1869–19011869–1895none shared2
ConcurrentIndian Independence1885–19481885–1895none shared1
AfterEdwardian Era1901–19146 years laternone shared2