The 10 Best Black Cowboy Movies & Westerns To Watch Now

Though the Black cowboy movie isn’t as common as the traditional Western, they are some of the most exciting and diverse installments in the beloved genre. Stretching as far back as the 1920s, Black actors began making their way into the predominantly White genre, and many of the earliest films to featuring Black cowboys were actually silent pictures. As the Western genre grew, so too did Black involvement in them, and by the 1970s, an entire subgenre within the Blaxploitation sphere was dedicated to Black cowboy and Western movies. While many have something to say, others are simply straightforward historical action films that also happen to feature predominantly Black actors.