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Movies Like Daniel Boone: The Wilderness Road

If you liked Daniel Boone: The Wilderness Road (1961), a western and family movie directed by Lewis R. Foster, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure

    Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure (1995)

    ★ 6.2/10Also adventure and family

    A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idyllic community. When…

  2. 2Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier

    Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)

    ★ 6.4/10Also adventure and family

    Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russel fight in the Creek Indian War…

  3. 3The Mountain Men

    The Mountain Men (1980)

    ★ 5.9/10Also adventure and western

    The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Running Moon runs away from her abusive husband Heavy Eagle and comes…

  4. 4Deadwood: The Movie

    Deadwood: The Movie (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western and tv movie

    Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable…

  5. 5The Quick and the Dead

    The Quick and the Dead (1987)

    ★ 6.4/10Also western and tv movie

    In 1876 Wyoming, the gun is the only law. And for Duncan and Suzanna McKaskel, newly arrived settlers beset by outlaws, rugged frontiersman Con Vallian is the only hope.

  6. 6The Way West

    The Way West (1967)

    ★ 6.1/10Also adventure and western

    In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on…

  7. 7Little Big Man

    Little Big Man (1970)

    ★ 7.4/10Also western and adventure

    Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.

  8. 8Dances with Wolves

    Dances with Wolves (1990)

    ★ 7.8/10Also adventure 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…

  9. 9Rango

    Rango (2011)

    ★ 6.9/10Also family and western

    When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town…

  10. 10Davy Crockett and the River Pirates

    Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956)

    ★ 6.3/10Also adventure and family

    Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie, allied with Fink, battle a group of river pirates trying to pass…

  11. 11The Magnificent Seven

    The Magnificent Seven (2016)

    ★ 6.5/10Also adventure and western

    Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam…

  12. 12Purgatory

    Purgatory (1999)

    ★ 7.2/10Also western and tv movie

    An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals…

  13. 13The Tall Men

    The Tall Men (1955)

    ★ 6.4/10Also western and adventure

    Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.

  14. 14Slow West

    Slow West (2015)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western and adventure

    In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.

  15. 15White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf

    White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (1994)

    ★ 6.9/10Also adventure and family

    A boy and his dog, White Fang, must try to save the noble Haida tribe from evil white men in turn-of-the-century Alaska.

  16. 16The White Buffalo

    The White Buffalo (1977)

    ★ 6/10Also western and adventure

    In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns…

  17. 17The Call of the Wild

    The Call of the Wild (1972)

    ★ 6.1/10Also adventure and family

    John Thornton, is a fearless man who's after more than gold; he wants to do what's right. Thornton works for the U.S. mail and is the only person daring and smart enough to figure out how to travel the deadly 600 miles…

  18. 18Man in the Wilderness

    Man in the Wilderness (1971)

    ★ 6.3/10Also western and adventure

    In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear…

  19. 19The Big Sky

    The Big Sky (1952)

    ★ 6.6/10Also adventure and western

    Two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St. Louis up the Missouri River to trade whisky for furs with the Blackfoot Indians. They soon discover that there is much more than the elements to…

  20. 20An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

    An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)

    ★ 6.3/10Also family and western

    Some time after the Mousekewitz's have settled in America, they find that they are still having problems with the threat of cats. That makes them eager to try another home out in the west, where they are promised that…

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