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 ...
Loosely speaking, Dan ā€œBuckā€ Brannaman is the real-life inspiration for ā€œThe Horse Whisperer,ā€ the 1995 Nicholas Evans novel and subsequent feature film starring and directed by Robert Redford. But, ...
It’s too soon to call this year’s Oscar for documentary, but here is a prime candidate: ā€œBuck,ā€ a character study featuring a real character. This film, which bowed locally at the Seattle ...
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 ...
Best extra: 11 deleted scenes, including one where Buck Brannaman recalls how his father forced him, as a boy, to help slaughter a bull he considered his friend THIS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT horse trainer ...
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 ...
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 ...
Buck Brannaman, the subject of Cindy Meehl’s engaging documentary profile ā€œBuck,ā€ has a warm presence and knows how to tame horses better than anyone else. That’s the simplest encapsulation of the ...
He's been called "The Zen Master of the Horse World," but Buck Brannaman is better-known as the real-life "horse whisperer." And now, Brannaman is the subject of an award-winning documentary film ...
Buck Brannaman doesn't really whisper in a horse's ear. But he is "The Horse Whisperer," a cowboy whose natural horsemanship inspired Nicholas Evans' novel and Robert Redford's film who has spent the ...
ā€œEquine therapistā€ just doesn’t sound as good as ā€œhorse whisperer,ā€ although that’s the term to describe Buck Brannaman’s specialty as a trainer of troubled horses. In fact, the subject of the lovely ...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dan M. "Buck" Brannaman is a horse trainer and a leading practitioner within the field of Natural horsemanship, which is a philosophy of working with horses ...