A list of the earliest Western films, by decade, released before 1920. 1890s 1894 Annie Oakley Bucking Broncho Buffalo Bill Buffalo Dance Lasso Thrower Mexican Knife Duel Sioux Ghost Dance These exhibition films are silent shorts directed and produced by William K. L. Dickson at Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio, with William Heise as cinematographer. The performers in each film were members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show with Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill themselves exhibiting their rifle shooting skills. The two dances featured members of the Sioux nation who are believed to have been the first Native Americans to perform on film. The lasso thrower was Vicente Oropeza and the stuntmen staging the knife fight were Pedro Esquivel and Dionecio Gonzales. Two real-life rodeo riders, Lee Martin and Frank Hammitt, featured in Bucking Broncho, which was filmed outside the studio. 1895 A Frontier Scene (aka Lynching Scene) Indian Scalping Scene Both of these films, which were scenes only, are believed lost. They were made by Alfred Clark for the Edison Manufacturing Company. 1899 Kidnapping by Indians This is a two-minute silent film drama shot in Blackburn, Lancashire, England by Mitchell and Kenyon. It is the earliest known dramatic work in the genre. Cripple Creek Bar-room Scene Poker at Dawson City Both of these were scenes only, made by Canadian director James H. White. A Bluff from a Tenderfoot Filmed by Frederick S. Armitage for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, this depicts a poker game and may be the first comedy western. 1900s 1901 Stage Coach Hold-Up in the Days of '49 (Edison) 1903 Alphonse and Gaston, No. 3 (American Mutoscope & Biograph) The Cowboy and the Lady (American Mutoscope & Biograph) The Great Train Robbery (Edison) Kit Carson (American Mutoscope & Biograph) The Pioneers (American Mutoscope & Biograph) Prairie Emigrant Train Crossing the Plains (Lubin Manufacturing Company) Stage Hold-Up (Selig Polyscope Company) Western Card Game (Lubin) 1904 A Brush Between Cowboys and Indians (Edison) Bushranging in North Queensland (Limelight Department) Cowboy Justice (American Mutoscope & Biograph) The Great Train Robbery (Lubin) The Hold-Up of the Leadville Stage (Selig) Western Stage Coach Hold Up (Edison) 1905 Life on the Circle Ranch (Circle Ranch Film Company) The Little Train Robbery (Edison) The Train Wreckers (Edison) 1906 L'arrivo di Buffalo Bill a Roma Attack on Fort Boonesboro From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies Holdup of the Rocky Mountain