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Kevin Costner

Mary McDonnell

Graham Greene

Rodney A Grant

Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman

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Robert Pastorelli

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Maury Chaykin

Jimmy Herman

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Wes Studi

Michael Blake

Jim Wilson

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Dean Semler

Dances with Wolves

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Drama: Western

02/01/2009

BBC Two - Dances with Wolves

Oscar-winning film about a soldier (Kevin Costner) who makes contact with a band of Sioux.

Epic Oscar-winning western about an American Civil War soldier who encounters Sioux Indians at a deserted frontier outpost and is assimilated into their culture.

Epic western about a Union soldier in the American Civil War, Lieutenant John Dunbar, who becomes a hero after an act of suicidal bravery and is allowed to choose his next assignment. He requests the frontier and is assigned to a fort built somewhere in the Midwest. Dunbar arrives there to find the place deserted and soon learns that a band of Sioux are encamped nearby. Having made contact, he quickly becomes absorbed into their way of life and begins to adopt their culture.

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