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The epic Western is a subgenre of the Western that emphasizes the story of the American Old West on a grand scale. Many epic Westerns are commonly set during a turbulent time, especially a war, as in Sergio Leone's "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966), set during the American Civil War, or Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" (1969), set during the Mexican Revolution. One of the grandest films in this genre is Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968), which shows many operatic conflicts centered on control of a town while using wide-scale shots on Monument Valley locations against a broad running time. Other notable examples include "The Iron Horse" (1924), "Duel in the Sun" (1946), "The Searchers" (1956), "Giant" (1956), "The Big Country" (1958), "Cimarron" (1960), "How the West Was Won" (1962), "Duck, You Sucker!" (1971), "Heaven's Gate" (1980), "Dances with Wolves" (1990), "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (2007), "Django Unchained" (2012), and "The Revenant" (2015).