Dances With Wolves Collectors Edition (2 DVDs)

Civil war hero Lieutenant John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) is assigned to an abandoned army post on the western frontier. At his isolated post he develops a relationship with the peaceful Lakota Sioux and a white woman who lives among them. Finding greater kinship with the Sioux than his own people, Dunbar is torn between the two different cultures. Audio Commentary by Kevin Costner, Jim Wilson, Dean Semler and Neil Travis

Synopsis

Lt. John Dunbar is dubbed a hero after he accidentally leads Union troops to a victory during the Civil War. Eager to escape attention, he requests a position on the Western Frontier, but arrives to find his post abandoned - with a lone wolf and some roving Sioux Indians providing the only other signs of life.Curious and desperate to survive, Dunbar is eventually forced into the Indian camp, where he gradually sheds his white-man's ways and earns the respect of the Sioux.As the war wages on, it is not long before the army advances on the plains and the Sioux's existence is threatened. John is faced with a decision that will not only affect him, but also the lives of the natives he now calls his people.