“Buck,” not to be confused with the 1989 kiddie favorite “Uncle Buck,” is a nonfiction film about a real-life “horse whisperer,” in this case former rodeo/trick-rope child star Buck Brannaman.

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 ...

Buck Brannaman, the subject of Cindy Meehl’s engaging documentary profile “Buck,” has a warm presence and knows how to tame horses better than anyone else. That’s the simplest encapsulation of the ...

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 ...

This morning, NBC’s “The Today Show” featured an interview with Buck Brannaman, the subject of Cindy Meehl’s “Buck,” a documentary that nabbed the 2011 Audience Award at Sundance. Ever the charmer, ...

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 ...

Buck Brannaman is a family man who has dedicated his life to traveling across the country helping horses with people problems. Brannaman, the real life inspiration behind “The Horse Whisperer,” is on ...

Buck Brannaman is a simple, soft-spoken man under a dirty rancher’s hat, an American cowboy who infuses his teachings with a hint of humor, tough love and common sense. Lounging under a cabana by the ...

It was author Nicholas Evans’ research into the ancient riding masters of Scotland and Ireland — horsemen rumored to utter hushed, mystical secrets into the ears of their four-legged charges — that ...

I liked “Buck” for 45 minutes or so. Then it started to get on my nerves. Buck Brannaman is a calm but mighty engaging man. A cowboy who provided some of the inspiration for “The Horse Whisperer” (he ...

Natural horsemanship advocate Buck Brannaman's way of "listening" to an individual horse is so effective that he was an inspiration behind both the book and film "The Horse Whisperer." Here, the ...

The Horse Whisperer may be the stuff of Hollywood legend but the charismatic horseman who inspired the novel and the film is very real. For Buck Brannaman – a true cowboy who is also part guru and ...