DANCES WITH WOLVES
Encore, 8:00 p.m. ET
In 1990, Kevin Costner was enjoying an especially strong time in his career – reaping both acclaim and awards as both actor and director, and using his Hollywood clout to present a Western that was epic in both length and structure. It’s especially noteworthy, then and now, for being a Western in which sympathies were placed pointedly on the side of the native Americans. Watch for Mary McDonnell, who later played the female president on Battlestar Galactica, as Stands With a Fist. (If I had an Indian name, I suspect it would be Sits with a Remote.)