Movies
Buck
“Buck” is a documentary about the real-life “horse whisperer” and the cowboy trainer Dan (Buck) Brannaman. Buck was a key resource and inspiration to the author Nicholas Evans for the title character in Evans’s 1995 novel, “The Horse Whisperer.” "Buck," the movie, portrays Brannaman as a teacher, trainer and therapist, for horses and their guardians. We follow his life as he travels around the country, teaching clinics for people with horse problems and — more often, as Brannaman puts it — “horses with people problems.” Using understanding, compassion and respect, Brannaman tries to help humans understand the language of horses so they can build a solid and rewarding relationship.
The Horse Boy
Temple Gradin
Tells the story of an autistic woman who overcame the limitations imposed on her by her condition to become a Ph.D. and expert in the field of animal husbandry. She is noted for creating her 'hug box', widely recognized today as a way of relieving stress in autistic children, and her humane design for the treatment of cattle in processing plants, which have been the subject of several books and won an award from PETA. Today, she is a professor at Colorado State University and well-known speaker on autism and animal handling. (Written by garykmcd)
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