Movies like Thunder in the Sun

20 movies like Thunder in the Sun, ordered by similarity : Drum Beat(1954), Texas Across the River(1966), The Paleface(1948), The Battle at Apache Pass(1952), Broken Arrow(1950), Pony Soldier(1952), Fighting Caravans(1931), Meek's Cutoff(2010), The Tall Men(1955), Westward the Women(1951), The New Land(1972), Tumbleweeds(1925) ...

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Thunder in the Sun

1850 adventure story of the Basque immigrants on their way to California, their struggle with the Indians, and the development of a complicated love triangle.

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Drum Beat

In 1872, Indian fighter Johnny MacKay is appointed peace commissioner for the California and Oregon territory but he faces tough opposition from the renegade Modocs led by their chief Captain Jack.

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Texas Across the River

In 1845 Texas, a Louisiana belle is courted by a wanted Spanish nobleman and a Texas brawling gunrunner but her suitors' passionate duel is interrupted by the cavalry and a Comanche attack.

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The Paleface

Calamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover.

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The Battle at Apache Pass

When Cochise bands together with Geronimo and other Indian tribes, Major Colton abandons his fort, heading towards Fort Sheridan, through Apache Pass. The only thing in his way are the Indians he used to call his friends.

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Broken Arrow

Tom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apaches in Arizona territory.

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Pony Soldier

In 1876, a Canadian North West Mounted Police Constable must obtain the release of white hostages captured by the Cree tribes that are raiding Montana from their Canadian reservation.

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Fighting Caravans

A young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love.

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Meek's Cutoff

Settlers traveling through the Oregon desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

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The Tall Men

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.

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Westward the Women

A trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently began settling there.

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The New Land

Swedish emigrants Karl-Oskar (Max von Sydow), wife Kristina (Liv Ullmann) and family struggle in 1850 Minnesota.

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Tumbleweeds

The government will grant a fringe of terrain for the settlers who want to live and work there. The starting sign will be a gunshot which will iniciate the run for the best fields and ... See full summary »

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Apache

Refusing to let himself be re-settled on a Florida reservation, Massai, an Apache warrior, escapes his captors and returns to his homeland to become a peaceful farmer.

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Fort Dobbs

Eluding a sheriff's posse, an escaped man saves a farming family from a Comanche attack and escorts it to the nearby Fort Dobbs.

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The Way West

In 1843, a former U.S. Senator leads a wagon train of settlers to Oregon, but his megalomania leads to growing dissatisfaction with his leadership.

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Bugles in the Afternoon

After violently attacking a fellow officer Lt. Edward Garnett, cavalry Captain Kern Shafter is court martialled. Later, he rejoins the army with Custer's regiment at Fort Lincoln, Dakota, becoming a sergeant, where he runs into his old foe.

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They Rode West

A young cavalry doctor, against orders, treats very sick Indians who are forced to stay on unhealthy land, which could lead to a war.

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Ride Lonesome

A bounty hunter escorts a killer to be tried for murder, but allows the man's outlaw brother to catch up with them to have a showdown over a previous shocking murder.

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Pack Train

Baddies McLain and Riker charge settlers what the traffic will bear for supplies. When Autry attempts to help out, the outlaws go after him.

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Canyon Passage

Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850's Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.

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