🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To UNFORGIVEN (1992) - *FIRST TIME WATCHING* - MOVIE REACTION!
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To me "Unforgiven" and "The Outlaw Josey Wales" are two of the greatest. Western ever. Clint directed both. Also he wasn't playing caricatures - he was playing real 3 dimensional characters that were imperfect heroes.
Pale Rider pretty wicked good Clint movie too!
So true , he is an icon!
Tombstone
I second the recommendation for "Pale Rider", as well as "High Plains Drifter", watch "Drifter" then "Pale Rider" in that order.
Outlaw Josey Wales. Done ✅
This is really a movie for people who've already viewed 50 years worth of Westerns. There are no heroes, just protagonists. Outlaw Josey Wales is a must-see, maybe my favorite Clint Eastwood flick...
“Hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he has and all he’s ever gonna have.”
That’s the line that will stick with you forever
"We all have it coming Kid."
"Deserves got nothin to do with it."
The guy who played Little Bill was Gene Hackman, one of the best actors of his generation (or any generation). He was also in Bonnie and Clyde, I Never Sang for My Father, The French Connection, The Poseidon Adventure, The Conversation, Young Frankenstein, A Bridge Too Far, Superman, Reds, Hoosiers, Mississippi Burning, Get Shorty, The Birdcage, The Replacements, and The Royal Tenenbaums.
Lol his appearance is Young Frankenstein is so great lol, it took me a few watches to realize it was him.
I can't believe you failed to mention the Quick & the Dead. Gene played a similar role in that movie
And a real life Marine
Also Enemy Of The State, with Will Smith.
Gene Hackman and Clint Eastwood were great in Absolute Power. It isn't a western. But a great movie.
I never saw anyone laugh at this movie before. A generation raised on video games and comic book movies...
The guy that played Little Bill is the legendary Gene Hackman. He did fantastic in this, he did fantastic in Crimson Tide, and he did fantastic in Mississippi Burning.
You can't go wrong with a Clint Eastwood movie. OUTLAW JOSEY WALES is a great Clint western. My favorite.
One of my favorite westerns besides this one is Open Range (2003) with Kevin Costner and Annette Bening. Also, Richard Harris was a great actor and was in a lot of very good movies. He even sings in Camelot.
The genre of the western is part of our dna in the states. Idealized and romanticized, with clear cut good v evil. Unforgiven shows the brutality of evil and a more ambiguous definition of good. Who are the “ good guys”? Davey and Delilah maybe. Who isn’t a bad guy? In the typical western, the hero rides off onto the sunset after making to town safe from the villains. Will rides off into a rainstorm at night after issuing a deathly threat to the townspeople. Brilliant storytelling.
A Clint Eastwood MASTERPIECE.
I love Eastwood flicks. This is one of my favorites. I think it was very smart that he did an age appropriate film.
He actually had this story for decades, and waited to make this movie until he was old enough to play it convincingly. What a master.
Thanks for the reactions💪🏼🇺🇸 pale rider, hang em high, and outlaw of josey wales are also amazing westerns by Clint that you would definitely like.
High plains drifter
YOUNG GUNS (1988) is one of the most fun westerns. Centered around Billy the Kid.
Pale Rider is my personal favorite Eastwood western. They're all excellent though. Maybe check out the Dirty Harry series. Great 70's & 80's cop thrillers
"Unforgiven" won four Oscars in 1992:
Best Picture
Best Director (Clint Eastwood)
Best Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman as Little Bill)
Best Film Editing
Nominated for five other Oscars:
Best Actor (Clint Eastwood as William Munny)
Best Original Screenplay
Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography
Best Sound
Before cheering too much for Will, it is important to understand that Munny was the worst guy in the movie, a genuine BAD man of no conscience (no embellishment required), revealed brilliantly in the bar scene (after going back to the bottle), a killer of women and children, coming to avenge his friend, after collecting an illegal reward for murder... the movie was brilliant in how it blurs the lines between good, evil, morality, conscience, and legend, but the villain was not the Sherrif Little Bill. Will Munny, though sympathetic, left Big Whiskey with an even bigger price on HIS head, bigger than the dozens of bills already hanging in Sheriff offices all through the west... that said wanted: dead or alive...
I've never seen Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman or Gene Hackman (Little Bill) in a bad movie. They all three are very good actors that bring characters they play to life and make them feel authentic.
I truly LOVE all of Clint Eastwood’s films!! Phenomenal talent in all phases of film making...acting, writing , producing and directing...❤️🎬📽
Clint is such an icon, love him !
Oh, forgot to mention that The Unforgiven won Best Picture Oscar for 1992, so that's why it was a really good movie.
"Funny thing Killin a man. You take all he's got and all he's ever gonna have." Wicked quote.
In "The Outlaw Josie Wales" the man tracking him makes the observation "Not a hard man to follow. Leaves dead men wherever he goes."
Clint Eastwood's career began with westerns and he purposely made Unforgiven with the intention of it being his last western. As other commenters have mentioned, the purpose of Unforgiven was to deconstruct the stereotypes and tropes of the typical Hollywood western. Are there any clear cut good guys here? Although you want to root for William Munny and Ned, let's not forget that these are two would be assassins with murderous pasts. And although we want to root against Little Bill, he is a sheriff trying to keep law and order in his town (albeit with extreme and sometimes questionable methods). Outside of the cowboy who cut up Delilah, there really isn't an out-and-out bad guy in the movie. And although he deserved a harsher punishment than he initially received, he didn't deserve death. Clint Eastwood did a masterful job with in Unforgiven with throwing the western stereotypes in our faces. This movie more than deserved its Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director.
The more you watch Clint Eastwood movies, the more familiar you are with his stare. Legendary.
i love how simple the story is and yet how powerful it is at the same time. that's how many of the best of them are.
"You coward. You just shot an unarmed man." Hackman
"He should arm himself if he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend." Clint
Pale Rider and Outlaw Josey Wales also staring Clint Eastwood, are a must see! After those all of Eastwood's "spaghetti" westerns, they set the standard for gritty old school westerns and blew away Hollywood's version of clean cut cowboys. They'll make ya' want to get a cigar, a poncho, and a six shooter! LOL!!
Excellent reaction. Unforgiven won best film,best director & best supporting actor Gene Hackman/ lil Bill. You have got to see The Outlaw Josey Wales. I believe it was Clint Eastwood's first time acting& directing.
Kabir, this is, in several ways, one of the most realistic Westerns ever made. Keep in mind that the sheriff had the backing of the business interests to keep the town under control. No control and the saloons and brothels couldn't function. At the same time, they didn't want things too strict because the cowboys (a derogatory term at the time) would have taken their money somewhere else, leaving behind a ghost town. Same sort of thing in Tombstone although the money there was coming in from miners. Many lawmen had a shady past or even played both sides of the law while in office. Clintwood's character represents a genuine killer of the time. Not a great shot, not a particularly fast draw, but he doesn't flinch when other men do (in part because he is drunk. Remember that he didn't pull a cork until he was told about Ned). A point that frequently gets overlooked is that the Old West probably represented a step up on the civility scale from the violent world of big city slums, such as the Five Points, a couple of decades earlier (Think Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York").
My favorite movie is the good the bad and the ugly. Hang em high, the outlaw of Josie Whales, A fistful of dollars, for a few dollars more, are great Clint Eastwood westerns.
Bill beat up Bob in order to "send a message". Something he couldn't do with the locals. But by being "an outsider", Bob became an easy target to use. It showed how serious Bill was, how harsh Bill was, it would get out to other "outsiders" who would reconsider what they were doing, as well as making any of the locals who MIGHT have been tempted to back down.... as well as showed that Bill KNEW the type of people who would be looking to cash in on the bounty and was ready for them.
As great as this movie is, for my money, Clint Eastwood's masterpiece western is "The Outlaw Josey Wales." If you squint at it, "Unforgiven" is almost an indirect sequel to it. Eastwood had already explored the "mysterious tortured avenging angel" angle in that movie. Fun fact: Eastwood had this story for years and years before finally making the movie, because he wanted to be old enough to play Will Munny convincingly. He kicked off his movie career as a western superstar in "A Fistful Of Dollars," and nearly thirty years later, "Unforgiven" earned him a fistful of Oscars.
Pale Rider and T8he Outlaw Josie Wales are 2 classic Eastwood westerns
They aren't out of practice. They have become better people.
That final shoot out is the epitome of a Wyatt Earp quote. “Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. You must learn to be slow in a hurry”
Wow . Interesting reaction . Eastwood considered this a western against violence or at least a movie that focused on the violence of violence .
The True Grit version with Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon is another favourite, you should check it out Kabir. The original with John Wayne is very good, but the remake is BEYOND. Great action, and so so funny!
To each his own I guess, but I think the remake of True Grit is intolerable garbage. Jeff Bridges can't hold a candle to the Duke. Kim Darby as Mattie Ross was significantly better than Hailee Steinfeld.
I’ll give Berry Pepper an A for playing Ned Pepper. He did an ok job but still ain’t Bobby Duval.
You're right. English Bob - Richard Harris was Dumbledore. I never would have noticed that.
This movie was once called, "the last Western", because it subverted so many classic Western tropes in favor of realism that many thought the genre of Westerns wouldn't survive.
There are probably four eras of Westerns: Early Westerns (B&W), Classic Westerns (both B&W and Color), Western Revival ('80's and '90's), and Modern Westerns in this century. I'm not sure everyone would agree, but it's a pretty good way to break up the sets of tropes. Clint Eastwood originally made his fame in Classic Westerns.
The best western ever made in my opinion… gritty real story with a badass ending.
It's a very different kind of western but I highly recommend "the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance". It deals with interesting themes about society but it bears a similarly with this film in that it discusses how the truth is not always the legend. Any John Ford directed western is definitely worth your time. Thanks for this reaction. I had a wonderful time watching.
Clint Eastwood first came to prominence in a co-starring role on a Western TV show called Rawhide in the late 50s, early 60s. Then, later in the 60s, he went to Italy to star in a trio of Westerns produced there, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. They were very successful, and turned a minor American TV actor into an international movie star. Unforgiven, then, was Eastwood's loving farewell to the Western genre that very much made him.
“The Quick & The Dead” is another good western from the 90s that has many well known actors.
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS . 2004 , Billy Bob Thornton, true story, award winner .
"Open Range," "Pale Rider," and "The Outlaw Josey Wales." Silverado, with John Cleese as the sheriff, is fun as well.
This great Western won the Oscar for Best Picture for 1993.
Kabir apparently has never heard “Shoot first. Ask questions later”. 😂
Glad you liked this Kabir. It was a simple story but beautifully done. Be sure to check out the haunting soundtrack.
One of my favorite movies of all time.
Me, too. It has my favorite line: Deserve's got nothing to do with it.
"Westerns" (Wild West) is one of the genres of story telling that has been ingrained into the American DNA. In a way, it is sort of like how stories of "Knights and Kings" is part of the UK DNA, mystic elements (magical) is European DNA, and philosophical and "inner peace" is part of the Asian market DNA.
The only real way to look at it is.... some regions have their "mythological" figures. For Americans, it is the "cowboy" and "lawless west". And yet, Clint Eastwood has a way of directing a movie where you get "realistic characters" who BECOME "myths" within their own stories. Unforgiven, High Plains Drifter, Pale Rider, and Outlaw Josey Wales are perfect examples of this ability. Something he picked up working with Leone. Clint learned so much as an actor and director that he has become legendary in the industry. But it is STORYTELLING where Clint learned the most, and it is clear from watching his films that if the story isn't compelling, then the movie isn't worth making.
The Unforgiven is widely considered to be the greatest western ever made.
You had me cracking up laughing when you said " get him ! Get him ! " And then you said cheers . You Savage ! 😁
One of my favorite films. Did you know that the story was so popular that this film was remade in Japan with Samurai instead of outlaws?
I was unaware of that but I did know that A Fistful of Dollars is essentially a remake of Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa.
I'm not saying you're wrong, I don't know everything but I am wondering if you've confused the two. Or, you know exactly what you're talking about and I'd like to get the title of the Japanese remake. I'd like to see it.
@@johnfriday5169 I believe that he might referring to the fact the 60’s film: The Magnificent Seven, a western, was a remake of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. But if there is a Japanese remake of Unforgiven, then I would also like to know the name of it.
One of my very favorite of westerns. Tombstone would be very slightly leading in my favs. After that, all the Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns were amazing as well. Especially, The Good The Bad and The Ugly.
As we say here in Texas; Y'all be safe.
A western you may like starting Richard Harris as the protagonist is "A Man Called Horse". It is one of the greats that have been forgotten over the years.
So most commenters on UA-cam seem to be under the impression that Hollywood has only ever made two westerns.
Tombstone and Unforgiven.
It’s become a snake eating its own tail as these two westerns have become the only westerns movie reaction channels watch, thus the only westerns commenters can think to recommend.
There are many classic westerns going back many decades. And in fact I actually wouldn’t recommend Unforgiven to anyone new to westerns.
As Unforgiven very much has a meta quality to it that’s essentially lost on you if you’re not genuinely familiar with the genre and its tropes.
It’s irksome that so many commenters jump to immediately recommending this western to reactors who’ve never seen any westerns, or barely any.
There’s a great western that serves an important role in the history of the genre, Hollywood, and the movies.
“The Wild Bunch” (1969)
Directed by the great Sam Peckinpah. “The Wild Bunch” was a bit controversial when it came out. It signaled a transition from what’s commonly thought of as the classic golden age of Hollywood into more modern films and a more modern style of filmmaking.
Highly recommend you check out this classic western.
It’s a very different kind of film from both the westerns you’ve watched so far.
“The Wild Bunch”
Oh, you had me rolling with your enthusiam! "Light him up like a Christmas tree!" "Make him look like a doughnut!" I laughed so hard.
To be honest, I needed that laugh. My mom died last Sunday, ans laughs are hard to come by. Thanks so much!
May I suggest Four Brothers. Its a modern remake of The Sons of Katie Elder, set in 2005 Detroit. Though its not a Western by definition, the movie is built on a Western matrix with a lot of the tropes of genre.
I really think you'd like it!
I like how when English Bob is startled by the guns and Little Bill, his accent noticeably changes. He speaks with a performative upper-class affect, but when he's surprised, he quietly curses in an overtly cockney accent and has to stop himself from speaking improperly. It's a small, funny detail that gives an early hint that English Bob isn't quite the sophisticated hero he makes himself out to be. Because he's English, he tries to pass himself off as being regal and upper class, when in reality he's just some thug.
It was just like Little Bill said. It's not the best or fastest shot you have to worry about. It's the man who keeps cool under fire. Will couldn't hit crap but he was calm, partly because he was also drunk like he always was in the old days.
Having a biographer to yourself back in the day was a huge deal. Most of the population were illiterate and the only the people of importance could read. You'd want your story to be told especially if the biographer could make it sound exciting. You would be remembered as a legend.
Got to watch LONESOME DOVE...4 part mini-series.
"Outlaw Josey Wales" is a blast.
For those who are new to Westerns, check out Once Upon a Time in the West.
The Sergio Leonie's masterpiece, gritty and absolutely wonderful. Every second of film is perfectly framed, and the soundtrack is a genius melody of the characters themes.
Last scene will riding in to town
"Behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."
The Outlaw Josey Wales, Hang em High, For a Fistful of Dollars, For a few Dollars More, High Plains Drifter, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Joe Kidd and Pale Rider are ALL worth making the effort to watch. The Outlaw Josey Wales and Joe Kidd are my favorites, but only by the slimmest of margins. Pale Rider and Unforgiven are at the bottom of my list but even these were very, very good.
Wyoming is not in the mid-west, but in the mountain west, where the rocky mountains and other mountain ranges are. If you look at a map, you will see that Wyoming is north of Colorado and Utah, and west of Kansas. I am a mid-westerner, and for me anyway, once you reach the rocky mountains, you have departed the mid-west.
One of my all time favorites. Begged and begged and my grandparents took me to see it in the theater even though I was only 10 years old lol.
"Open Range" is a real sleeper if you like modern Westerns.
You should watch The man who shot Liberty Valence. It stands Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne. It's one of the best western ever made.
Beauchamp wrote what was called dime novels during the period.
Little Bill was played by Gene Hackman
There's a good fan theory that William Munny was actually a retired "man with no name" from the spaghetti westerns of the 60's. It would be well worth it to watch those films.
You are watching with the eyes of a modern man with modern sensibilities. It was " the wild west" where hard men ran things and woman did what they were told. It was a lawless time in our history.
Wyoming is half in the rockies, so it is considered part of the west. Mid-west usually refers to states above Memphis that hug the Mississippi river and it's tributaries. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, Iowa, plus Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and the Dakotas, could all be called Mid west. Tennesee and south is "the south", and Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, even Texas are all considered the West.
This movie always brings a lot of recommendations for Clint's "spaghetti westerns" but IMHO the best remaining Clint Eastwood westerns are:
"The Outlaw Josey Wales"
"Pale Rider"
My grandmother, born in 1910, told me that at 3 years old her mother would put her on a horse and send her one and a half miles down the road her aunts house for the day unattended. People were different then.
Gene Hackman played Little Bill. I recommend ''The Quick and the Dead'', he plays a similar character. The Old West wasn't a hospitable place, it required mental, physical and emotional toughness, and the ability to be flexible morally. Not every lawman was noble, nor was every outlaw villainous. A lot of them went back and forth, lawman in one territory, outlaw in another. Survival was the only real goal, for most people.
The Good The Bad, and the Ugly: Clint Eastwood best western ever
This considered the finest western film. Period.
Gene Hackman aka Little Bill . won an academy award for that role. Hackman is an outstanding actor. check out his movies The French Connection , Enemy of the State there's more i cant think of atcthe moment
One of Clint Eastwood's best movies! He has so many great movies but if you want more westerns I HIGHLY suggest The Outlaw Josey Wales and Pale Rider. I believe those two. along with Unforgiven, make up his three greatest westerns.
This is one of the best westerns ever made, for another one check out The Outlaw Josey Wales also starring and directed by Clint Eastwood.
First, “Tombstone,” and now “Unforgiven.” We’re turning Kabir nto an American! For a different kind of Western, give “The Proposition’’ starring Guy Pearce a watch. It’s an Australian western. Finally, there’s “The Dark Valley,” (Das finistere Tal) a western set in, of all places, the mountains of Austria. Beyond intense.
This is a top three Eastwood flicks, along with "Grand Torino" & "The Outlaw Josey Wales". I also really. like a movie in which Clint Eastwood plays a bit of a different type of role every one's use to in the very underrated, "The Beguiled".
The Beguiled will make you afraid of females....
Did you ever see his comedies, or his musicals?
@@captainnerd6452 I totally forgot about those. lol
@@gog583 I personally loved "Bronco Billy" and "Every Which Way But Loose", and also "Honkytonk Man". "Paint Your Wagon" was great, too.
There's an old American saying; You can take the Grizzly Bear out of the wild: But you can't take the WILD out of the Grizzly Bear!
Give poor Will a break, dude. He had a fever and could barely stand...he could barely sit.
If you want to see "Old School" Westerns then you should realize that there were basically three types. Movies like Unforgiven basically deconstructed the Western genre and should not be considered in the Old School camp. The three types were 1) Singing Cowboy (not a fan), 2) Classic John Wayne-type Westerns (Rio Bravo, Fort Apache, True Grit) or Clint Eastwood movies such as Hang 'em High (and even that one is revisionist), and finally 3) the Spaghetti Western (European made, usually in Italy, in sorta the style of Hollywood Westerns) such as the MUST SEE Man with No Name Trilogy: For a Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and (perhaps one of the best ever) The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. GBU has one of the best endings of all time.
A not-really Western Must See Clint Eastwood film is The Outlaw Josey Wales. John Wayne also has many critically- and publicly-acclaimed WWII moves to his credit such as The Sands of Iwo Jima, The Longest Day, and In Harms Way.
The guy who played Wyatt...... dam... Kurt Russell!!
Unforgiven is one of my favorites, but it ultimately serves as a book end to just about every western that came before it. It deconstructs the western myth, and is, in fact, a bit meta. Beauchamp is writing the western myths to be in his dime store pulp novels. The same myths that every western movie and tv show from the 1920s to the 1960s would be based on. The very ones that Eastwood would be made famous by both in the 50s and in the 60s with Sergie Leone.
None of the death in this movie is cheer-worthy in reality. Even Little Bill is often misunderstood. He's made out to be a man who "worked them tough towns in Texas and Kanas." He's seen his fair share of blood. That's why he was hesitant to punish the two men at the beginning. One of them wasn't really deserving of any punishment, Davey Boy, because as soon as he realized what his friend was doing he does try to stop him and gets tossed off. He then later tries to show some solidarity with the women of the brothel by offering Delilah a pony... Which she could have made a good little bit of money off of, or kept for herself if she wanted. Neither of them really got a "just" end, even the guy who cut her up. Yes, his intentions were to kill Delilah, but what was done to him was not justice, it was just murder for murder. He was not tried, or given the opportunity to face his accuser. Even when Will goes back to his old ways, it is not a heroic thing. He grabs that bottle from the kid and starts swigging it like it was an elixer, letting Hyde out to play. The mixer that follows him through the rest of the movie is a low bass rumble, low strings. Like a horror movie. He let the monster out one last time to avenge his friend, and then he moved as far away as he could, all the way to the west coast, to have a good life for his kids.
I own a copy of the "Duke of Death" prop novel. There's no story in there, but its still cool to have on the shelf.
If you enjoyed the performance of Gene Hackman (Little Bill) I would highly suggest checking out the movie "Crimson Tide" where he stars alongside a young Denzel Washington. One of the best submarine movies ever made, and both of them give such a blazing performance through the whole movie. You also get to see a pre Sopranos James Gandolfini, among many other power house actors.
True Grit (2010) is pretty great too
Richard Harris was in movie called A Man Called Horse it is a American Indian story check it out from the 70's
"They cut off her face, her eyeballs, her tits, they even cut off her purple monkey dishwasher". News travelled slow and wide back in those days.
You should watch The Outlaw Josey Wales next!! Such a great movie
Fantastic Clint and company. Now, watch and review another fine Western called , "Lonesome Dove".
This movie is amazing. You really can't go wrong with Clint Eastwood. Tombstone is still my favorite western but this is fantastic as well. I'm just getting started. I hope you enjoy the film.
That scene where he leaves his kids on their own. Had to grow up quick during those times.
This and Shawshank are my favorites of all time.
Will was highly feverish while in the saloon and there’s was nothing he could do at the time. Once he got better you could see the “old ways” come out in him. This won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director (Clint), Supporting Actor (Hackman) and Film Editing. Not “white hat” vs “black hats” like the old Westerns, just people who had flaws and were trying to live out their days according to the “rules” of the time. Wyoming Territory (not a state until 1890) in the 1880’s was relatively lawless so Bill, with no formal training, ruled by violence and usually by the big ranchers. The cowboys were not whipped because the town and Greeley needed their continued business, along with the rest of the ranch hands. Just a gritty depiction of the rough life and often horrible death in the early days of the American West.
Go real old school! The Cowboys starring John Wayne is my all time favorite western. One of John Williams earlier scores.Yes, that John Williams, Star Wars etc. Just a fantastic movie. Wayne just months before filming, had a lung removed for lung cancer.
Kabir, Westerns are one of my favorite genres. I've got nearly two 18" shelves full of Western movies and TV series worth. Mostly "Modern" Era stuff (1980s onward). If you haven't noticed, but there was a decided change in movie making style in the late 60s/early 70s. In the way they were shot, sound design, acting style, etc. So I tend to call anything after that as the "modern era."
But other great Westerns to check out are Silverado (1985), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), Dances With Wolves (Extended Edition at almost 4 hours long) (1990), Django Unchained (2012), Hostiles (2017), Wyatt Earp (1994), 1883 (a prequel mini-series to Yellowstone) (2022), 1923 (the follow-up sequel series to 1883) (2023), Dead in Tombstone (2013), Dead Again in Tombstone (2017), Texas Rising (mini-series about the aftermath of the Alamo) (2015), and Hatfields & McCoys (mini-series about the generations long conflict between two families...takes place in West Virginia and Kentucky) (2012).
The thing about the Western genre is that they don't always have to take place in the so-called West. Some may take place in Appalachia, or even the South. Westerns are more about Frontier living, or even modern day police dramas that take place in rural areas. The show Justified, starring Timothy Olyphant is a modern day law enforcement show that takes place in Kentucky, but it uses tropes from classic Westerns. And really that's the most important part in determining the genre. If something uses a lot of tropes from classic Westerns then it might be considered a Western.