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The general sources listed in the Film project are considered to be reliable. These can be especially helpful when looking for sources on contemporary works for which there may not be as much academic source availability.
For works that are television films, there is a list of sources that the Television Project has deemed to be reliable through consensus. Note that most of these will provide sources of reliable information on newer programming, such as Yellowstone, or Justified, but for mid-century classic Westerns, you'll have better luck with the sources noted below.
<ref name="Broughton">{{Cite book |editor-last=Broughton|editor-first=Lee |title=Critical Perspectives on the Western : From a Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained |date=2016 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781442272422 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hKnqDAAAQBAJ}}</ref><ref name="Edgerton">{{Cite book |last=Carter |first=Matthew |title=Myth of the Western: New Perspectives on Hollywood's Frontier Narrative |date=2014 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=9780748685592 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1larBgAAQBAJ}}</ref><ref name="Edgerton">{{Cite book |last=Edgerton |first=Gary R. |title=Westerns: The Essential 'Journal of Popular Film and Television' Collection |date=2013-09-13 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-76515-6 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-eraAAAAQBAJ}}</ref><ref name="McDonald>{{Cite book |last=McDonald |first=Archie P. |title=Shooting Stars: Heroes and Heroines of Western Film |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |year=1987 |isbn=978-0-8357-3957-3 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9z5JPgAACAAJ}}</ref><ref name="Matheson">{{Cite book |last=Matheson |first=Sue |title=The Westerns and War Films of John Ford |date=2016 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |isbn=978-1-4422-6106-8 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bMZ4CwAAQBAJ}}</ref><ref name="Munn">{{Cite book |last=Munn |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Munn |title=John Wayne: The Man Behind the Myth |date=2005 |publisher=[[Robson Books]] |isbn=978-1-101-21026-0 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lVJL6w1T3ocC}}</ref><ref name="Parks">{{Cite book |last=Parks |first=Rita |title=The Western Hero in Film and Television: Mass Media Mythology |date=1982 |publisher=[[UMI Research Press]] |isbn=978-0-8357-1287-3 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wwO1AAAAIAAJ}}</ref>
<ref name="Sarf">{{Cite book |last=Sarf |first=Wayne Michael |title=God Bless You, Buffalo Bill: A Layman's Guide to History and the Western Film |date=1983 |publisher=[[Fairleigh Dickinson University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8453-4732-4 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r22_IwAACAAJ}}</ref><ref name="Simmon">{{Cite book |last=Simmon |first=Scott |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EN64jzq4Q3AC |title=The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century |published=2003 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0-521-55581-4 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EN64jzq4Q3AC}}</ref><ref name="Verhoeff">{{Cite book |last=Verhoeff |first=Nanna |title=The West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning |date=2006 |publisher=[[Amsterdam University Press]] |isbn=978-90-5356-831-6 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XKDAsYDXxz8C}}</ref><ref name="Langman">{{Cite book |last=Langman |first=Larry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-40mFfGB4VMC |title=A Guide to Silent Westerns |date=1992 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-27858-7 |language=en}}</ref>Some of these encompass both film and television.
<ref name="Rollins">{{Cite book |last=Rollins |first=Peter C. |last2=O'Connor |first2=John E. |title=Hollywood's West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, & History |date=2005-11-11 |publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]] |isbn=978-0-8131-3855-8 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=suc99SBlbnEC&newbks=0}}</ref>Any sites that are primarily user generated content and/or lack editorial oversight should be avoided. This includes IMDb, blu-ray.com, Fandom, Wikia, and others like them.