Movies and TvShows featuring "way-station" theme.

The Young Riders follows a group of young Pony Express riders as they deliver mail across the Wild West. Along their journeys, they encounter various challenges and obstacles, including conflicts with Native Americans, racial tensions, and personal struggles. The series explores themes of friendship, bravery, and the spirit of the Wild West.

Stagecoach West is an American Western drama television series which ran for thirty-eight episodes on the ABC network from October 4, 1960, until June 27, 1961. Characters Luke Perry and Simon Kane operate the Timberland Stage Line from fictitious Outpost, Missouri to San Francisco, California. Simon's 15-year-old son, David "Davey" Kane, joins the two as they face stagecoach robbers, murderers, inclement weather, and human interest stories. Perry and Kane, who are both deputy U.S. marshals, had been on opposite sides of the American Civil War; Kane, a captain in the Union Army, while Perry had fought for the Confederate States of America. The one-hour black-and-white program was offered at 9 p.m. Eastern on Tuesdays opposite NBC's Thriller, hosted by Boris Karloff, and CBS's The Red Skelton Show. Rogers became well-known a dozen years later on M*A*S*H, and Bray later portrayed the forest ranger Corey Stuart on Lassie from 1964–1969, both on CBS. Child actor Richard Eyer had starred in a number of films in the 1950s, including Friendly Persuasion and Desperate Hours. Stagecoach West was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television. It is believed that the series was cancelled despite the high quality of its production because of the glut of westerns on television at the time that it aired. The same fate had fallen on CBS's Johnny Ringo, a 1959 one-season spin-off of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.

The Outcasts is an American Western genre television series, appearing on ABC in the 1968-69 season. The series stars Don Murray and Otis Young. It is most notable for being the first television Western with an African American co-star.

After Life follows a man who dies and enters a way-station where he must choose a single memory to take with him into eternity. Set in Tokyo, Japan, the film explores themes of memory, remembrance, and the importance of human connection. Through the process of selecting their memories, the characters learn to find beauty and meaning in the transient nature of life.

After being left to die in the desert, Cable Hogue builds an oasis and seeks revenge against those who wronged him. Along the way, he falls in love with a prostitute and faces various challenges.

Four Faces West is a western film set in New Mexico. The story revolves around a man who robs a bank in order to help a woman with a sick child suffering from diphtheria. As he tries to escape, he is pursued by a marshal and a deputy. The plot explores themes of redemption, sacrifice, and the harsh realities of life in the Wild West.

In an old fort dedicated to the service of change of chivalry, show up three hired murderers and warn Lohman, the manager, who is about to get a stagecoach traveling in the former judge who unjustly condemned to five years in prison , and of course the husband murderer now promised the judge, Ruth, indicating further that brings a suitcase with many dollars. However, Lohman rejects the suggestion of the bandits. But when the judge and his girlfriend, the fort was attacked by Indians.

In the year 1865, a Civil War veteran is tasked with escorting a payroll wagon through the dangerous Nevada territory. Along the way, he must protect a woman and her child from Native American attacks and confront his own personal demons.