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Movies Like Major Dundee

If you liked Major Dundee (1965), a western and war movie directed by Sam Peckinpah, 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. 1Ride with the Devil

    Ride with the Devil (1999)

    ★ 6.3/10Also war and western

    Friends Jake and Jack Bull join up with Civil War guerrilla fighters, yet after the realities of war set in, they must decide what honor truly means.

  2. 2Fort Apache

    Fort Apache (1948)

    ★ 7/10Also western

    Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he…

  3. 3Garden of Evil

    Garden of Evil (1954)

    ★ 6.3/10Also western

    A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.

  4. 4The Horse Soldiers

    The Horse Soldiers (1959)

    ★ 6.9/10Also western and war

    A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the…

  5. 5Geronimo: An American Legend

    Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)

    ★ 6.3/10Also western

    The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the…

  6. 6Rio Conchos

    Rio Conchos (1964)

    ★ 6.3/10Also western

    Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Confederate colonel from selling a cache of stolen rifles to a band of…

  7. 7The Undefeated

    The Undefeated (1969)

    ★ 6.3/10Also western

    After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the…

  8. 8Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)

    ★ 6.5/10Also western and war

    Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of…

  9. 9The Alamo

    The Alamo (1960)

    ★ 7.1/10Also war and western

    The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.

  10. 10Barbarosa

    Barbarosa (1982)

    ★ 5.9/10Also western

    Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger…

  11. 11They Died with Their Boots On

    They Died with Their Boots On (1941)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western and war

    The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in…

  12. 12Apache

    Apache (1954)

    ★ 6.1/10Also western

    Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. On the way he manages to escape and heads for his homeland to win back his…

  13. 13The General

    The General (1926)

    ★ 7.9/10Also war

    During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The…

  14. 14Frontera

    Frontera (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also western

    After crossing the border illegally for work, Miguel, a hard-working father and devoted husband, finds himself wrongfully accused of murdering a former sheriff’s wife. After learning of his imprisonment, Miguel’s…

  15. 15Ulzana's Raid

    Ulzana's Raid (1972)

    ★ 6.9/10Also western

    After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.

  16. 16Young Guns II

    Young Guns II (1990)

    ★ 6.5/10Also western

    Three of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid, Jose Chavez y Chavez, and Doc Scurlock — return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being…

  17. 17The Guns of Navarone

    The Guns of Navarone (1961)

    ★ 7.3/10Also war

    A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

  18. 18The Man from Laramie

    The Man from Laramie (1955)

    ★ 7.1/10Also western

    Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillingly drawn into the convoluted life of a local ranching family whose…

  19. 19The Searchers

    The Searchers (1956)

    ★ 7.7/10Also western

    As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

  20. 20Cry Macho

    Cry Macho (2021)

    ★ 5.9/10Also western

    A one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home from Mexico.

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