There have been plenty of great Westerns released in the last 40 years, with Unforgiven, Bone Tomahawk, and Django Unchained ...

Between the 1930s and 1960s, movies known as "buddy films" became prominent in cinema and eventually found their way into the Western genre with classics like Rio Bravo and Buck and the Preacher.

Not all classic movies are still fun to watch — some feel like homework. But these 1960s movies remain a pleasure to watch after all these years. Here they are, in no particular order.

In 2013, the 1960s film was even selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of ...

From the quintessential gay cowboy movie Brokeback Mountain to older films like Midnight Cowboy, there is something for everyone.