Ulzana's Raid

The Westerns of the New Hollywood era (roughly 1967–1980) were marked by their revisionist sensibilities, eschewing the romanticised tropes of classic Westerns in favour of bleak, morally ambiguous narratives that mirrored the disillusionment of Vietnam-era America. Even filmmakers from an earlier generation, such as Robert Aldrich, whose career spanned decades, contributed to this shift. Aldrich’s 1972 film *Ulzana…