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Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this stirring, visually enthralling Western epic is set on the Dakota plains of the 1860s. Director/star Kevin Costner is Lt. John J. Dunbar, an Army officer who is assigned to a remote post where he befriends a tribe of Sioux Indians, whom he discovers appear to be more civilized than his own people. Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant also star; screenwriter Michael Blake adapted his novel. Theatrical version; 181 min./Director's cut; 4 hrs. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English. Three-disc set.