Western TV Shows
The 40 most popular western TV shows right now, most watched first. Popularity is measured on TMDB and the page is rebuilt every day, so the order moves with what people are actually watching.
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1.Westworld(2016)
8.0Sci-Fi & FantasyWestern
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
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2.Yellowstone(2018)
8.3WesternDrama
Follow the violent world of the Dutton family, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. Led by their patriarch John Dutton, the family defends their property against constant attack by land developers, an Indian reservation, and America’s first National Park.
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3.Bonanza(1959)
7.5WesternAction & AdventureDrama
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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4.Little House on the Prairie(1974)
8.0WesternDramaFamily
When the big woods of Wisconsin becomes a difficult spot for hunting, Charles Ingalls reluctantly decides to move his family, pioneering west. Their life on the farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s is full of adventure, tragedy, and triumph. Based on the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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5.Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman(1993)
7.6WesternDrama
Dr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868.
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6.Longmire(2012)
7.7WesternCrimeDrama
A Wyoming sheriff rebuilds his life and career following the death of his wife. Based on the “Walt Longmire” series of mystery novels written by best-selling author Craig Johnson.
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7.Dutton Ranch(2026)
9.1WesternDrama
Rip Wheeler and Beth Dutton gamble everything on a new life in South Texas, but the promise of building a future far from the ghosts of Yellowstone quickly collides with brutal new realities and a rival ranch that will stop at nothing to protect its empire.
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8.When Calls the Heart(2014)
8.3DramaWestern
Elizabeth Thatcher, a young school teacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west.
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9.Walker, Texas Ranger(1993)
7.0DramaWesternCrime
Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy"…
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10.Gunsmoke(1955)
6.7WesternAction & AdventureDrama
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio…
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11.Deadwood(2004)
8.1WesternCrimeDrama
The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life…
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12.1923(2022)
8.3DramaWestern
Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.
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13.Joe Pickett(2021)
7.0DramaWestern
A game warden and his family navigate the changing political and socio-economic climate in a small rural town in Wyoming on the verge of economic collapse. Surrounded by rich history and vast wildlife, the township hides decades of schemes and secrets that are yet to be uncovered.
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14.Wynonna Earp(2016)
7.8Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyWestern
Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter Wynonna battles demons and other creatures with her unique abilities and a posse of dysfunctional allies - the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice.
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15.Hell on Wheels(2011)
7.6Action & AdventureDramaWestern
The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the…
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16.Zorro(1957)
7.6WesternAction & Adventure
Diego de la Vega, the son of a wealthy landowner, returns from his studies in Spain and discovers that Los Angeles is under the command of Capitan Monastario, a cruel man who relishes in the misuse of his power for personal gain. Knowing that he cannot hope to single-handedly defeat Monastario and his troops, Diego…
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17.Warrior(2019)
8.0CrimeDramaAction & Adventure
A gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who immigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances, and becomes a hatchet man for one of Chinatown’s most…
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18.Jericho(2006)
7.4Action & AdventureDramaMystery
Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.
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19.1883(2021)
8.3DramaWestern
Follow the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. A stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land — Montana.
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20.The Ranch(2016)
7.4ComedyFamilyWestern
Being a pro athlete didn't pan out for Colt. Now he's helping his dad and brother keep the ranch afloat, and figuring out how he fits into the family.
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21.The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.(1993)
7.1WesternComedyAction & Adventure
A tough-as-rawhide cowpoke, debonair ladies' man and Harvard-educated smarty-britches roams from Frisco to Jalisco in pursuit of outlaws who killed his father...and in search of a mysterious orb possessing out-of-this world powers. Hot lead and cool anachronisms await Brisco as he and his sidekicks - including Comet,…
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22.Billy the Kid(2022)
7.7WesternDrama
An epic romantic adventure series based on the life of famous American outlaw Billy the Kid — from his humble Irish roots, to his early days as a cowboy and gunslinger in the American frontier, to his pivotal role in the Lincoln County War and beyond.
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23.Little House on the Prairie(2026)
6.7DramaWesternFamily
The close-knit Ingalls family builds a new life on the Western frontier, where the joys of nature and the struggle for survival are deeply intertwined.
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24.Ransom Canyon(2025)
7.3DramaWestern
Passions run deep in a small Texas town, as three ranching dynasties fight for their land, their legacies and the people they love.
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25.American Primeval(2025)
7.7WesternDramaAction & Adventure
A mother and son fleeing from their past form a found family while confronting a harsh landscape of freedom and cruelty in the American West.
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26.Godless(2017)
7.7WesternDrama
A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who’s found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.
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27.The Good Lord Bird(2020)
6.7DramaWesternWar & Politics
Henry 'Little Onion' Shackleford, a newly freed teenager joins abolitionist John Brown on a holy crusade to end slavery. Onion encounters Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, and he finds himself as a part of the famous 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry.
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28.Lonesome Dove(1989)
7.9DramaWestern
A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
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29.The English(2022)
7.3DramaWestern
An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke, arrives into the new and wild landscape of the American West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.
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30.The Abandons(2025)
5.9DramaWestern
In 1850s Washington, two families led by powerful matriarchs — one wealthy, one poor but deeply loyal — battle for supremacy on the lawless frontier.
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31.Hatfields & McCoys(2012)
7.5WesternDrama
It’s the true American story of a legendary family feud—one that spanned decades and nearly launched a war between Kentucky and West Virginia. The Hatfield-McCoy saga begins with Devil Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy.. Close friends and comrades until near the end of the Civil War, they return to their neighboring…
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32.Kung Fu(1972)
7.7Action & AdventureDramaWestern
The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
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33.Broken Trail(2006)
6.9Action & AdventureDramaWestern
The story is about an aging cowboy and his nephew who transport 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming to sell them to the British Army. Along the way, their simple horse drive is complicated when they rescue five Chinese girls from a slave trader, saving them from a life of prostitution and indentured servitude.…
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34.Damnation(2017)
6.9Western
Seth Davenport is masquerading as a small town Iowa preacher in the hopes of starting a full-blown insurrection against the status quo, unaware that an industrialist tycoon has hired a professional strikebreaker to stop the uprising by any means necessary. An epic saga of the secret history of the 1930’s American…
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35.Klondike(2014)
7.1DramaWestern
The lives of two childhood best friends, Bill and Epstein, in the late 1890s as they flock to the gold rush capital in the untamed Yukon Territory. This man-versus-nature tale places our heroes in a land full of undiscovered wealth, but ravaged by harsh conditions, unpredictable weather and desperate, dangerous…
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36.Deputy(2020)
6.9WesternDramaCrime
When the Los Angeles County’s Sheriff dies, an arcane rule forged back in the Wild West thrusts the most unlikely man into the job: a fifth-generation lawman, more comfortable taking down bad guys than navigating a sea of politics, who won’t rest until justice is served.
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37.That Dirty Black Bag(2022)
7.1WesternDramaAction & Adventure
The 8-day clash between Arthur McCoy — an incorruptible sheriff with a troubled past — and Red Bill, an infamous, solitary bounty hunter known for decapitating his victims and stuffing their heads into a dirty black bag.
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38.The Wild Wild West(1965)
7.6Action & AdventureComedyDrama
During the administration of President Ulysses Grant, Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon solve crimes, protect the President, and foil the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over all or part of the United States.
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39.Into the West(2005)
8.0WesternDramaAction & Adventure
The lives of two families, one white American, one native American, become mingled through the momentous events of American expansion, between 1825 and 1890.
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40.Territory(2024)
6.9WesternDramaAction & Adventure
When the world's largest cattle station is left without a clear heir, rival factions descend as a fierce generational struggle upends the land's future.
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