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The Horse Soldiers

Movies Like The Horse Soldiers (1959)

The Horse Soldiers is a 1959 war, western film from John Ford with a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Undefeated and Escape from Fort Bravo.

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The Undefeated

1969

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 unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.

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Escape from Fort Bravo

1953

A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.

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Great Day in the Morning

1956

After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a Confederate minority in a strongly Unionist town.

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Mysterious Island

1961

During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' .

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Major Dundee

1965

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.

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The Raid

1954

A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.

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Two Flags West

1950

A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.

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Alvarez Kelly

1966

In 1864, during the American Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until unexpected circumstances force him to change his customers.

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Zulu Dawn

1979

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

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C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America

2005

Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.

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Jonah Hex

2010

Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets revenge on the man who slew his wife and child.

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Waco: The Rules of Engagement

1997

In one of the most tragic face-offs in the history of law enforcement, the deadly debacle at Waco pitted the Branch Davidian sect against the FBI in an all-out war. This documentary makes the most of footage and recordings to examine how the events that led to the tragedy of April 19, 1993, unfolded, and how the FBI's unrelenting approach made what was already a bad situation much worse.

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Dog Soldiers

2002

A band of soldiers is dispatched to war games deep in the woods. When they stumble across a rival team slaughtered in camp, they realize they're not alone.

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Dead Man's Wire

2026

In 1977, former real estate developer Tony Kiritsis puts a dead man's switch on himself and the mortgage banker who did him wrong, demanding $5 million and a personal apology.

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VFW

2019

A typical night for veterans at a VFW turns into an all-out battle for survival when a desperate teen runs into the bar with a bag of stolen drugs. When a gang of violent punks come looking for her, the vets use every weapon at their disposal to protect the girl and themselves from an unrelenting attack.

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The Chase

1994

Jack Hammond is sentenced to life in prison, but manages to escape. To get away from the police he takes a girl as hostage and drives off in her car. The girl happens to be the only daughter of one of the richest men in the state. In a while the car chase is being broadcast live on every TV-channel.

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Sniper 2

2002

A former Marine sniper is lured back in on a top-secret mission to take out a rogue general accused of running a stealth operation of hit-and-run ethnic cleansing missions in an area known as "No Man's Land."

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The Massacre

1912

The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.

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The Front Room

2024

Everything goes to hell for newly-pregnant Belinda after her mother-in-law moves in. As the diabolical guest tries to get her claws on the child, Belinda must draw the line somewhere.

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Hacksaw Ridge

2016

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Horse Soldiers?

The top films similar to The Horse Soldiers by MovieMagicScore are The Undefeated (6.2), Escape from Fort Bravo (6.2), Great Day in the Morning (5.9). Each shares war/western themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Horse Soldiers worth watching?

The Horse Soldiers holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10 from 265 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Horse Soldiers?

The Horse Soldiers (1959) is a war, western film directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Horse Soldiers?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more war recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like The Horse Soldiers

This ranked list pairs The Horse Soldiers (1959), a war and western film from John Ford, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of John Wayne take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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