Dances with Wolves Director: Kevin Costner USA| 1990| Western/Drama| 181 min Book cinema tickets Kevin Costner’s directorial debut about an idealistic young Civil War soldier returns to the Comparative Study for 2005. Costner stars as Lt John Dunbar who makes friends with a Sioux Indian tribe and eventually becomes one of them. The film offers several possibilities for discussion of literary genre as well as cultural context and themes of gender, and loyalty. Director: Kevin Costner USA| 1990| Western/Drama| 181 min