女先行者

邓巴中尉（凯文•科斯特纳 Kevin Costner 饰）在南北战争中立了大功，政府为了褒奖他，给了他任意选择驻地的特权。邓巴渴望着一种全新的生活，于是选择了遥远偏僻的西部哨所塞克威克。这里住着大量的印第安苏族人。 一开始苏族人把他的到来有着抗拒，当邓巴主动接近和了解他们的生活，并搭救了一个从小在苏族长大的白人少女后，族人和他之间的关系开始回暖。他得到了一个印第安名字：与狼共舞。邓巴的骑术让族人惊叹，他的善良被大家称赞，和白人少女也日久生情。一次对抗外族入侵的战争中，邓巴更是被封为了苏族人的民族英雄。 然而马背文化的没落已成必然，白人士兵来到这片土地，驱赶苏族人，捕捉“叛徒”邓巴，这片朴实的土地慢慢改变了容颜……

讲述了一群性格迥异的角色围绕一件罕见的美洲原住民文物展开激烈争夺的故事，在这件文物流入黑市后，一位怀揣梦想的腼腆女服务员（西德尼·斯维尼 Sydney Sweeney 饰）与一位渴望爱情的退伍军人（保罗·沃尔特·豪泽 Paul Walter Hauser 饰）联手，试图将其据为己有，却因此成为冷酷罪犯（埃里克·迪恩 Eric Dane 饰）的目标，而他正为一名西部古董商人（西蒙·雷克斯 Simon Rex 饰）效力。随着更多人卷入这场争斗，血雨腥风接踵而至。

A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.

故事发生于1892年，一位传奇的陆军上尉在经过一番坚决反抗后，极不情愿地同意护送一名垂死的夏安族战酋及其家人返回其部落。从新墨西哥一处偏僻的军事基地到蒙大拿州的草原，在这趟折磨人的、险恶的旅途中，这对曾经的对手偶遇到一名年轻的寡妇，她全家都在平原上被杀了。他们三人必须联合起来，一起克服艰险的地形，战胜他们沿路遇到的充满敌意的科曼奇族人。

In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.

本片描述一名曾经在白人和红人社会出生入死多次的人瑞回忆他的一生经历，从一个侧面反映了美国西部开拓时期的一页血与泪的历史。本片是这红人翻案的反传统西部片，内容和构想都处理得颇具新意，每一段情节都具有相当高的趣味性。达斯廷．霍夫曼在片中从十几岁演到一百二十岁，是演技上的一大突破，另外马丁．巴山姆、费伊．达纳韦等演员的表演也不落俗套。

根据哈洛德．罗宾斯的原著改编，讲述白人与印第安的混血青年千里寻仇，逐一解决杀死他父母的三名枪手。本片是部典型的美国西部复仇影片，内容无甚新意，导演亨利．哈撒韦的手法略嫌沉闷，但史蒂夫．麦奎因、卡尔．莫尔登等演员在本片的演出都非常不俗，使得本片仍有不少的观众群。

When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when the Sioux go to war against the U.S. Army.