- Actors: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman
- Directors: Kevin Costner
- Writers: Michael Blake
- Producers: Kevin Costner, Bonnie Arnold, Derek Kavanagh, Jake Eberts, Jim Wilson
- Format: NTSC
- Subtitles: English
- Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Obsolete
- Release Date: Nov 17 1998
- Run Time: 181 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (79 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00000F187
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#30,107 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #9 in DVD > Westerns > Cowboys & Indians
- #10 in DVD > Westerns > Western Stars > Kevin Costner
- #23 in DVD > Military & War > Civil War
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Kevin Costner's 1990 epic won a bundle of Oscars for a moving, engrossing story of a white soldier (Costner) who singlehandedly mans a post in the 1870 Dakotas, and becomes a part of the Lakota Sioux community who live nearby. The film may not be a masterpiece, but it is far more than the sum of good intentions. The characters are strong, the development of relationships is both ambitious and careful, the love story between Costner and Mary McDonnell's character is captivating. Only the third-act portrait of white intruders as morons feels overbearing, but even that leads to a terribly moving conclusion. Costner's direction is assured, the balance of action and intimacy is perfect--what more could anyone want outside of an unqualified masterpiece? --Tom Keogh
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Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. John Dunbar wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. He is assigned to an abandoned fort, where a Sioux tribe is his only neighbor. Overcoming the language barrier and their mutual fear and distrust, Dunbar and the proud Indians gradually become friends. Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, Kevin Costner.
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Really? This was best Picture?
Mar 6 2012
Format:Blu-ray
Sorry I know to some of you I am kicking a sacred cow but I have seen this film twice and again I ask "really". This is one of the slowest movies I have ever sat thru. Slow movies are fine if they are well done (see "Being There") but I am sorry this is not the case here. Kevin Costner has always been an average actor at best and an even worse director (can we say Water World or The Postman). This movie has about ten places it could easily have finished but it just kept on going. Plus (before you get bent out of shape I am white ) how insulting a movie could you make about Native Americans. Where would the rest of the world be without whity to save them. I can not say one redeeming thing about this film excepts that it ends.
The biggest crime about this train wreck is that it beat out Goodfellows for best picture. So unless you want to be spoon feed some white man propaganda about how we always do the right thing in the end and the rest of the world would be lost without us stay away from this film. TTL SHT
The biggest crime about this train wreck is that it beat out Goodfellows for best picture. So unless you want to be spoon feed some white man propaganda about how we always do the right thing in the end and the rest of the world would be lost without us stay away from this film. TTL SHT
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Dances With Wolves
Jan 6 2004
Format:VHS Tape
This was a second viewing for me. I saw it a few years ago, loved it then, love it now.
In my opinion, Costner's depiction of how things were between Indians and White Men was true to form. I tend to like books and movies that show both sides of the coin, so to speak, and this movie did so.
Yes, the behaviour of the white men was over-played; surely all white people aren't that mean. But you have to figure, at that time the kind of men we see portrayed in that movie were products of their own time.
The timeline the movie is set in, isn't your modern-day world where everyone is careful about what they say and how they view other races of people.
That is how a lot of people reacted to native people. There were bad guys on our side too.
Something I liked about this movie was that women were not shown as being second-rate members of the tribe. They were treated decently and respected. We can well imagine there were some groups who did not treat their women well, but we can also imagine there were white men who also abused women.
I was impressed with the extra coverage that came with our DVD set. I was surprised to know that the cast went to the trouble of learning the language of the D'akota. And I was surprised to know that not all native people know how to speak the ancient languages.
One of the most poignant scenes in the movie is when Kevin Costner gets the wolf to take meat from his hand. It was very sad when the wolf was shot.
I cannot think of any parts of this movie that did not hold my interest.
I am so impressed by the movie, that I have ordered the book, and the audio version of the original novel.
Carly Svamvour - Writer - Toronto, Canada
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Gorgeous and glorious
Dec 28 2003
Format:VHS Tape
All the Oscars won by this marvelous Kevin Costner movie were deserved. It's the story of a soldier who, alone, manned a fort in the Dakotas and became a respected member of the Sioux tribe that lived nearby. You've got a romance, you've got an ecological lesson, you've got history, you've got the Noble Savage. You've got terrific character development, beautiful photography, an inspiring musical score, assured direction by Costner himself...
It's simply a stunning achievement.
It's simply a stunning achievement.
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Dances With Wolves
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shameful.....
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Turned the tide in Hollywood's picture of Indians
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the experience
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Published on May 12 2003 by S. K. Mohanty
A spectacular movie
This movie stirred up several kinds of my emtions- happy, sad,
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Published on Mar 22 2003 by D. nichols
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