My personal selections by genre:
"Westerns" -- listed alphabetically accompanied by selected reviews:
Dances with Wolves:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099348/
Lonesome Dove:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...maculate-books
Soldier Blue:
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/...eviews_rssfeed
Son of the Morning Star:
http://www.destgulch.com/movies/sms/
The Wild Bunch:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065214/
Ulzana's Raid:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069436/
I grew up (in Burnley) on a dose of Saturday morning matinee "Oaters" -- Buck Jones, Ken Maynard, Tim McCoy "B" picture serials, followed in later years by John Ford/John Wayne epics, etc. They were great fun but, I came to realize, not very accurate reflections of real American Western history.
I am, in a modest way, a Western Historian and the above personal movie selection list contains what to me are the real gems of historically correct western movies -- attitudes, prejudices, speech idioms, equipment, dress ..... and so on.
James