Omar Azimi is a writer from the Washington D.C. metro area, who has experience in journalistic writing. Mr. Azimi graduated from Old Dominion University with a bachelors degree in Political Science.

For decades, the most popular movie genre in America was the Western. Audiences loved gun-slinging sheriffs, dashing outlaws, thundering cattle drives, horseback pursuits, and majestic landscapes.

Most Western movies look pretty good visually, but some go the extra mile, including classics like The Searchers and Once ...

Every few years, movie lovers ask what happened to the Western — the film genre that helped launch America’s film industry at the dawn of the 20th century and constituted up to a quarter of ...