With so many options available now on cable, streaming platforms, digital networks, and broadcast television, you might spend more time searching for something to watch than actually watching anything. So we’re offering a weekly guide to some programming of special interest to C&I readers. Here are a few suggestions for Nov. 27 to Dec. 3. Happy viewing.

Pick of the Week: Frybread Face and Me on Netflix

We really can’t speak highly enough of Native American writer-director Billy Luther’s subtly compelling, richly amusing and hugely entertaining coming-of-age comedy-drama, which has already found a large and appreciative audience on Netflix. Specific in its details but universal in its appeal, the indie movie focuses on the forging of a friendship between two young cousins (Keir Tallman, Charley Hogan) as they spend the summer of 1990 on their feisty grandmother’s sheep farm at a Navajo reservation in Arizona.

Streaming

Hulu

Faraway Downs (2023) — Director Baz Luhrman has expanded Australia, his epic 2008 cattle drive drama starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, into a limited-run series with previously deleted scenes, a new musical score, and greater emphasis on Indigenous people.

Get Low (2009) — Robert Duvall shrewdly underplays the larger-than-life lead role of Felix Bush, a notorious hermit who rejoins society only to plan his own funeral party, and he’s backed by such smartly cast supporting players as Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, and Gerald McRaney.

Hostiles (2017) — Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Jesse Plemons, Wes Studi, and Adam Beach star in this Western drama from director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) about an Army captain (Bale) who agrees to lead the escort for a dying Cheyenne war chief (Studi) and his family traveling back to the chief’s tribal lands.

Netflix

Concrete Cowboy (2021) — First-time filmmaker Ricky Staub co-wrote this contemporary drama  starring Idris Elba as a father who finds common ground with his estranged teen-age son (Caleb McLaughlin) in a Black urban horsemanship community.

Frontier (2016-18) — All three seasons of the period drama starring Jason Momoa as Declan Harp, a half-Irish, half-Cree outlaw who bucks the establishment in 18^th-century Canada while establishing himself in the fur trade of his native land.

My Heroes Were Cowboys (2021) — Documentarian Tyler Greco focuses on the ways Robin Wiltshire works his magic while bonding with horses he trains for film and TV roles.

Freevee

Death Rides a Horse (1967) — A gunfighter (Lee Van Cleef) recently released from prison has good reason to a help a young man (John Philip Law)  gunning for the outlaws who killed his family in Giulio Petroni’s cult-favorite Spaghetti Western.

Lonesome Dove (1989) — You might have heard something about this miniseries. It deals with a cattle drive, and it stars Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones. We hear it’s pretty good.

The Warrant (2020)  —  Neal McDonough plays a sheriff who joins his lawman son (Steven R. McQueen) on a manhunt for a notorious outlaw (Casper Van Dien) he once fought alongside in the Union Army. 

Cable/Broadcast TV

Nov. 27

Pale Rider (1985) — Clint Eastwood stars as The Preacher, a gun-toting drifter who providentially arrives in an Old West town to smite the minions of a rapacious mining baron.  8 pm ET on Grit.

Nov. 28

The Hired Hand (1971) — Peter Fonda does double duty as director and star of this cult-fave Western as a drifter who returns —  accompanied by his saddle buddy (Warren Oates) —  to the wife he abandoned years earlier. 9:29 pm ET on Encore Westerns.

Nov. 29

Christmas at Graceland (2023) — Lainey Wilson, Alanis Morissette, John Legend, Kacey Musgraves, Kane Brown, Lana Del Rey, Post Malone, and The War And Treaty are among the stars who will perform at Graceland as a heartfelt tribute to Elvis Presley in a special also featuring never-before-seen footage inside the estate. 10 pm ET on NBC.

Nov. 30

Quigley Down Under (1990) — C&I readers seem to never get enough of this fine Western starring Tom Selleck as a sharpshooting good guy who makes the mistake of answering a help-wanted ad by a truth-twisting bad guy (Alan Rickman of Die Hard), a wicked Australian rancher wants to wipe out the Aboriginal people with fair claim on his land. 8 pm ET on Grit.

Dec. 1

The Last Cowboy (2023) — Competitors continue to vie for a $1 million purse in this Taylor Sheridan-produced reality show set in the high stakes world of horse reining. 8 pm ET on CMT.

Dec. 2

The Long Riders (1980) — From director Walter Hill (Broken Trail), a drama about the exploits of legendary brothers bound in banditry:  Jesse (James Keach) and Frank James (Stacy Keach); Cole (David Carradine), Jim (Keith Carradine) and Bob Younger (Robert Carradine); and Ed (Dennis Quaid) and Clell Miller (Randy Quaid). 2 pm ET on Grit.

Dec. 3

Big Jake (1971) — John Wayne stars in this C&I reader favorite as a gunfighter charged by his estranged rancher wife (Maureen O'Hara) to deliver a $1 million ransom to the kidnappers of their grandson. 9 pm ET on INSP.