Loosely speaking, Dan “Buck” Brannaman is the real-life inspiration for “The Horse Whisperer,” the 1995 Nicholas Evans novel and subsequent feature film starring and directed by Robert Redford. But, ...

The real-life horse whisperer who inspired the 1998 fictional movie “The Horse Whisperer” starring Robert Redford is now the star of his own documentary that follows the life of the cowboy-philosopher ...

Our therapeutic culture is lousy with stories of people struggling to spin childhood traumas into something positive, something that leaves the world a better place than the one that damaged them; but ...

The documentary Audience Award winner at this year’s Sundance festival, Buck follows itinerant horse trainer Buck Brannaman as he applies his uniquely humane and frankly astounding methods in four-day ...

“Equine therapist” just doesn’t sound as good as “horse whisperer,” although that’s the term to describe Buck Brannaman’s specialty as a trainer of troubled horses. In fact, the subject of the lovely ...

The director spent two and a half years shooting it. Then she carefully crafted it into an hour and a half journey of one man's life. Brannaman is a world famous horse trainer, who travels nine months ...

First-time filmmaker Cindy Meehl makes an Oscar-shortlisted doc on Buck Brannaman, who inspired Robert Redford's equine classic. By Tim Appelo Cindy Meehl‘s Buck, a Cedar Creek Productions documentary ...

PARK CITY, Utah — Several years ago, I spent time with Gunther Gebel-Williams, the celebrated Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey animal trainer. I watched in awe as this intensely charismatic man ...

Equine expert Buck Brannaman might not be a household name outside the tack room. But non-equestrians’ ears prick at the mention of “The Horse Whisperer,” the novel and film whose horse expert, played ...

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