Dances with Wolves (1990) poster
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FilmPG-131990

Dances with Wolves

AdventureDramaWestern

Directed by Kevin Costner

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe. From TMDB

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Dances with Wolves is a 1990 adventure drama western film, directed by Kevin Costner, starring Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell and Graham Greene.

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  • Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.comBluesky · Sep 1, 2025

    RIP sir... a huge talent. "Graham Greene, a Canadian actor best known for his Oscar-nominated turn in the 1990 film “Dances with Wolves,” died on Monday in Toronto after a battle with long illness. He was 73."

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  • Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2026

    "Dances with Wolves" isn't a white savior movie.

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  • Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    Graham Greene, it’s hard to believe he’s passed on. On TV, a phenomenally talented presence in everything from Reservation Dog to Northern Exposure & a million other TV & film projects. Just watched 4 hr version of Dances with Wolves & Kicking Bird is an all-time great cinema performance, period. 💚

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  • 🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    RIP Graham Greene A trailblazing indigenous actor from the Oneida of Haudenosaunee Confederacy, he featured in both film and television. His greatest career achievement was a nomination for Best Supporting Actor in Dances with Wolves. #Canada #GrahamGreene

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  • ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2025

    Graham Greene, a Canadian actor best known for his Oscar-nominated turn in the 1990 film “Dances with Wolves,” died on Monday in Toronto after a battle with long illness. He was 73. 😢 #RIPGrahamGreene #cdnpoli variety.com/2025/film/ob...

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  • Sisyphus Idaho @sisyphus43.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2025

    Prolific native actor Graham Greene has died after a long illness. He was nominated for his role as Kicking Bird in Dances With Wolves. I was always pleased to find him in a movie.

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  • HellsBelle @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 1, 2025

    Graham Greene Dies: Oscar-Nominated ‘Dances With Wolves’ Actor Was 73. >Graham Greene, a trailblazing Canadian First Nations actor who opened doors for Indigenous actors in Hollywood, died September 1 in a Toronto hospital after a long illness. The Oscar nominee from Dances with Wolves was 73. >“He was a great man of morals, ethics and character and will be eternally missed,” Greene’s agent Michael Greene (no relation) said in a statement to Deadline. “You are finally free. Susan Smith is…

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  • Skavau @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 1, 2025

    Graham Greene Dies: Oscar-Nominated ‘Dances With Wolves’ Actor Was 73.

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  • Kirpal Singh @kirpalsingh.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 25, 2026

    My place is with you. I go where you go ...! Movie 🎥 : Dances with Wolves (1990) Directed and produced by Kevin Costner 🌳 🌳 (Visited my University)

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  • Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    Rest in Power, Graham Greene. His big break in Hollywood came with his role in Dances With Wolves and continued with dozens of roles in film and television. 🪶💔

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  • Watchdog Progressive @watchdogprg.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    Before the Day is Done.... #RIP Graham Greene, Dances with Wolves actor, dies aged 73. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

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  • Dan the Guitar Man @dantheguitarman.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2025

    And he stole the Movie in Thunderheart and Dances with Wolves.

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  • SirMaple__ @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 2, 2025

    Graham Greene, Oscar-Nominated ‘Dances with Wolves’ Actor, Dies at 73. We've lost another great Canadian Actor. R.I.P. Graham.

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  • Jacks. Yup! That Damn SOB. 🪶🦬 🐺 🦅 🌎 ⚖️ @palehorse.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2025

    Graham Greene, a Canadian actor best known for his Oscar-nominated turn in the 1990 film “Dances with Wolves,” died on Monday in Toronto after a battle with long illness. He was 73. R.I.P. Graham. 😔🪶 🪶 Your iconic & memorable movie roles will live on forever brother. 🪶 variety.com/2025/film/ob...

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  • Dan2Dogs @dan2dogs.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    Sad news. Graham Greene has passed away. He was a great actor with some 200 roles to his credit: movies like Dances with Wolves, Maverick, and Die Hard with a Vengeance, and TV shows like Northern Exposure. His contributions to film and indigenous inclusion are great. www.npr.org/2025/09/02/n...

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  • Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2025

    Sorry to hear Canadian First Nations actor Graham Greene has died at 73. Maybe best remembered for his Oscar-nominated role in Dances with Wolves, he was also very capable in the Michael Apted film Thunderheart. Greene interviewed in 2023. #RIPGrahamGreene m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtup...

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  • Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2025

    Iconic "Dances With Wolves" actor Graham Greene has died at the age of 73. variety.com/2025/film/ob...

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  • Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zoneBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    I just watched DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990) for the first time and was blown away by Greene's performance (as well as the whole film) RIP

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  • Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2025

    a Mary McDonnell film fest=never a bad idea. In the last few months I've watched or rewatched Passion Fish, Sneakers, Independence Day (a fun film with the big mistake of underusing MM criminally), Dances With Wolves. I'm a horror wuss but she's also great in House of Usher. Turns out she can act!!

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  • Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2026

    Dances with Wolves (1990) Starring, directed, and produced by Kevin Costner in his feature directorial debut. The film is an adaptation of the 1988 novel Dances With Wolves, by Michael Blake.

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  • The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2026

    Born 3 Nov 1939, composer John Barry. He composed the scores for 11 of the Bond films between 1963 and 1987 as well as arranging & performing the James Bond Theme for the 1st film in the series, Dr. No. He also wrote the scores to the films Dances with Wolves & Out of Africa. #JohnBarry

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  • flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    My brain, unbidden at 7.45 am this morning: See in Dances With Wolves (a movie you haven’t seen in well over thirty years) - why would the Sioux be unfamiliar with coffee, if coffee is from South America? (one Google later) Coffee is from Ethiopia. Every day is a school day.

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  • The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.comBluesky · Oct 1, 2025

    "His windswept, airbrushed canvases have given shape to landmark films for decades, from Solaris to Dances With Wolves. Now 86, the designer looks back at his highlights"

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  • carpenter22.bsky.social @carpenter22.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    Graham Greene, Dances with Wolves actor, dies aged 73 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

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  • Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 27, 2025

    Dances with Wolves (1990) Starring, directed, and produced by Kevin Costner in his feature directorial debut. The film is an adaptation of the 1988 novel Dances With Wolves, by Michael Blake.

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  • FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2025

    Recently? Green Book. Of all time? Dances with Wolves. Everyone gets weird about Ordinary People beating Scorsese's Raging Bull, but Ordinary People was a great movie and deserved it. No one ever bitches about Dances with Wolves beating motherfucking GOODFELLAS tho. Fuck DwW for that.

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  • Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 12, 2024

    This is a head-scratcher for pretty much anyone younger than me. Children, the movie Dances with Wolves (1990, starring Kevin Costner) was a brief cultural phenomenon. Everyone talked about it. Everyone!

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  • Zeb Cyrus 🎃👻🙀 @zbcy.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2026

    Books to Films 📚=🎞️ Dances With Wolves (1988) by Michael Blake was adapted to film (1990) by Kevin Costner. The story was originally a script as Costner asked Blake to write it as a book. The Comanche are switched to Lakota Sioux & a 4 hour cut adds some crucial details. 🐺💃🪶 #booksky #filmsky

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  • Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2025

    Dances with Wolves (1990) Starring, directed, and produced by Kevin Costner in his feature directorial debut. The film is an adaptation of the 1988 novel Dances With Wolves, by Michael Blake.

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  • Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 28, 2025

    change a movie by adding a word Break Dances with Wolves...

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  • Christopher Bird @mightygodking.comBluesky · Sep 1, 2025

    Everybody is praising Graham Greene, as is right and proper, but there's no discussion of the fact that the reason he became moderately famous is that he made DANCES WITH WOLVES just... work. DWW is a movie that shouldn't work, but it does, and much of that is down to Greene

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  • TheImpressiveX @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 2, 2025

    Graham Greene Dies: Oscar-Nominated ‘Dances With Wolves’ Actor Was 73.

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  • Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2025

    Dances with Wolves (1990) Starring, directed, and produced by Kevin Costner in his feature directorial debut. The film is an adaptation of the 1988 novel Dances With Wolves, by Michael Blake.

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  • Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2025

    Shout outs to Thelma Schoonmaker. She has three Academy Awards for film editing, but she was only nominated for her work on Goodfellas. (Dances With Wolves won that year, and I think Thelma was robbed.)

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  • Matt McNeil Show @mattmcneilshow.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    Oh no! I just rewatched Dances with Wolves with my kids. He was so appealing on the big screen. His work over the last few years was exceptional. variety.com/2025/film/ob...

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  • Terence Towles Canote @mercurie80.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2025

    Graham Greene, Oscar-Nominated ‘Dances with Wolves’ Actor, Dies at 73 variety.com/2025/film/ob...

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  • Microw @[email protected]Lemmy · May 24, 2025

    Netflix' live-action ATLA announces supporting cast for seasons 2 and 3. For season 3, Jon Jon Briones (known from *Ratched* and West End/Broadway musical theatre) will play Master Piandao, and Tantoo Cardinal (known from *Dances with Wolves*, *Killers of the Flower Moon*) will play Hama. Also announced are additional actors for season 2 as can be seen in the image. Netflix announced that Season 2 has officially wrapped, and Season 3 will now begin shooting.

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  • 1godzillafan, The MST3K & Clara Stan @1godzillafan.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2025

    We've lost another #MST3K icon today. Probably best known for his role in Dances with Wolves, Millennials are likely to remember Graham Greene best from his role in the Twilight film New Moon. That particular film lampooned on RiffTrax. He also played a role in MST3K's Asylum knock-off Atlantic Rim.

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  • Mark @munchkin68.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2025

    Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand. Meat Dances with Wolves Groove is in the heart of

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  • Melanie Ktorides @melkt.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2026

    @omacolt.bsky.social #JulyMovieChallenge July 20 Native American in a movie Kicking Bird ‘Dances with Wolves’ 1990

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  • desertscribe.bsky.social @desertscribe.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 5, 2026

    🎬Dances With Wolves🎬Fellow Tucsonan, Micheal Blake WON BEST SCREENWRITER OSCAR in 1991 I had the honor of watching DWW with Micheal when he was honored at the Prescott Film Festival.

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  • Slyke @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 5, 2025

    Graham Greene Dies: Oscar-Nominated ‘Dances With Wolves’ Actor Was 73.

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  • Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2026

    In the fucking dumb Goodfellas vs Dances with Wolves debate, only one fucking movie would never rat on its friends and always keep its mouth shut.

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  • Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2025

    I've used this scene after the fall of the fort in class more than any other film. Second is the bison hunt from Dances with Wolves. #HATM

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  • Steve @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 2, 2025

    Graham Greene Dies: Oscar-Nominated ‘Dances With Wolves’ Actor Was 73. Graham Greene, a trailblazing Canadian First Nations actor who opened doors for Indigenous actors in Hollywood, died September 1 in a Toronto hospital after a long illness. The Oscar nominee from Dances with Wolves was 73. “He was a great man of morals, ethics and character and will be eternally missed,” Greene’s agent Michael Greene (no relation) said in a statement to Deadline. “You are finally free. Susan Smith is…

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  • Hallow’s Books, Movies, and TV @hallowshaunt.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 18, 2026

    Any fans of the 1990 film, Dances with Wolves?

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  • 🌮 Alacrity's Ghost @alacritysshadow.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2025

    you remember the movie Dances With Wolves? we're at the part where they shot the dog.

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  • MTMcGurk @mtmcgurk.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    First film I remember him in is Dances with Wolves. Stole every scene he was in. Rest in peace Graham Greene.

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  • Grampa Jody @jodywagner.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 14, 2026

    Name a movie you've seen 5 or more times. I guess I watch a lot of movies. 😂 Braveheart, Dances with Wolves, The Karate Kid 1 + 2, Star Wars, The Godfather 1 + 2, Avatar, The Last of the Mohicans, The Price of Glory, The Great Wall, The Shawshank Redemption, Terminator 1 + 2, Rocky 1-6....

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  • ♥️♠️Pam♦️♣️ @pam.sheshed.rocksBluesky · Apr 14, 2025

    4 of many great Native ActorsGraham Greene,Tantoo Cardinal, Will Sampson, Michael Greyeyse I remember Graham Green. He played in “Dances With Wolves”. I Loved that movie ♥️ The others I’m not sure.

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  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 @[email protected]Lemmy · Feb 25, 2026

    I am told that in the movie *Dances with Wolves*, all the language consultants were women, and as a result all the characters speak with a noticable "women's accent" that is very noticablevto older Lakota viewers.

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  • Petergeist Clines @peterclines.comBluesky · Oct 5, 2025

    Never seen Dances With Wolves or Avatar, although -numerous- people have told me they're the same movie so it doesn't matter.

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  • Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2026

    OMG. Apparently, when Kevin Costner made Dances With Wolves, his parents followed the production in their Winnebago and would watch from high up on the ridge as he made the movie. They left him alone for work, but would wave every morning. I find that so hilarious and cute.

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  • tired-native.bsky.social @tired-native.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 22, 2025

    At least Dances With Wolves employed a few Natives while filming their white savior movie.

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  • Jenna Constantine PhD @kaplanikids.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    A pioneer for Indigineous actors in Hollywood, Greene made his debut in the 1979 Canadian drama series “The Great Detective” and in the 1983 film “Running Brave.” But his big Hollywood break came with “Dances with Wolves,” in which he co-starred as “Kicking Bird.” variety.com/2025/film/ob...

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  • Batsy Cline (she/her) 🎃🦇📚 @batsinthebrittfry.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    Oh man. This sucks. 💔 My first favorite movie was Dances With Wolves. He was phenomenal as Kicking Bird. RIP

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  • RegularJoe @[email protected]Lemmy · Apr 28, 2026

    ‘Dances With Wolves’ actor Nathan Chasing Horse sentenced to life in prison for sexual assault | CNN.

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  • Estel Cooper @estel62.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2025

    Dances with Wolves is a 1990 American epic western film starring, directed, and produced by Kevin Costner in his feature directorial debut. It is a film adaptation of the 1988 novel Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake that tells the story of Union Army Lieutenant John J. Dunbar

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  • FloPaSasquatch @flopasasquatch.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2025

    Graham Green's passing is a reminder that Dances With Wolves is a terrible movie & it beating Goodfellas for best picture is why you should never take the academy awards seriously

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  • Mary Historian @mmhistorian.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 21, 2024

    November 21, 1990 Dances with Wolves opens nationwide. With a budget of $22 million the film would end up grossing over $420 million (almost a billion in todays money) and be nominated for 12 Academy Awards, winning seven. #MaryMcDonnell as Stands With A Fist

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