HIGH NOON' (7 letters) Western drama is a genre of film and television that typically portrays stories set in the American Old West. OATER is a five-letter word for a type of Western drama, which is a horse opera. This term was coined in the 1920s to describe the genre of films that featured action-packed stories with horses and cowboys. An example of this type of Western drama is the classic 1952 film 'HIGH NOON'.