The Western

Brokeback mountain is probably the only western film i've seen.

Characteristics:
-Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West.
-set as early as the Battle of the Alamo in 1836 but most are set between the end of the American Civil War (1865)
-often portray how primitive and obsolete ways of life confronted modern technological or social changes.
-American Westerns of the 1940s and 1950s emphasize the values of honor and sacrifice