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Show all (7)American cowboy Buck Brannaman has a unique way of communicating with horses, and it's exactly this unorthodox style of training that inspired the novel "The Horse Whisperer." In this documentary, director Cindy Meehl gets to know the real-life Buck as she reveals his fascinating story about how an abusive childhood helped teach him the compassion and insight needed to train horses, not with punishment but by treating them the way he would treat humans -- with respect.
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Documentaries have a wonderful way of making us care about people and things way outside our own experience, and Buck is a prime example. My entire contact with horses has consisted of watching my father lose money at the track and of looking into the eyes of those forlorn carriage horses outside New York’s Central Park. Yet I was completely gripped by Buck , a documentary about a Montana horseman and teacher who brings a beautiful humanity to his work with these magnificent animals. (Full review)