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 ...

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 ...

There's a simple pleasure derived in "Buck," just from seeing the gentle way Buck Brannaman works with horses. His approach has never been to whip, jerk or dominate. His connections with the animals ...

"Your horse is a mirror to your soul, and sometimes you may not like what you see. Sometimes, you will." Sundance Selects and IFC Films have debuted the official trailer on Apple for Cindy Meehl's ...

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, ...

One has to witness the work horse trainer Buck Brannaman does with his animals to appreciate it as an art form. In the documentary Buck, filmmaker Cindy Meehl paints a portrait of Brannaman, who is ...

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 ...

Others had approached Buck Brannaman about doing a film on his life as a beaten rodeo kid who found his place in life as a horse trainer and philosopher. But Brannaman wasn't impressed by those ...

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 ...

Dan "Buck" Brannaman is the subject of the documentary Buck. My guess is Buck doesn’t use the moniker Dan much. He’s just "Buck." Buck is one of my favorite films this year and after urging Carmike ...

“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 ...

A few years ago, even documentary gurus wondered if nonfiction wasn’t meant for theaters. “The bottom line is that not that many people go to see documentaries at the box office,” HBO’s Sheila Nevins ...