What is the name of the 1976 film starring Clint Eastwood as a Civil War veteran turned outlaw?

The 1976 film starring Clint Eastwood as a Civil War veteran turned outlaw is The Outlaw Josey Wales. Eastwood plays Josey Wales, a Missouri farmer whose family is murdered during the Civil War. After joining Confederate bushwhackers, Wales becomes an outlaw when his unit is betrayed and massacred after surrendering.

The film is a revisionist Western because it presents the Civil War's aftermath through a character shaped by grief, revenge, and displacement rather than a simple heroic-versus-villainous story. It was directed by Eastwood and adapted from Asa Earl Carter's 1972 novel The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales, later retitled Gone to Texas.

A common mix-up is confusing it with Eastwood's other Westerns, including Pale Rider and High Plains Drifter. The Outlaw Josey Wales was also selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1996 for its cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance.