Dances with Wolves vs Django Unchained

Django Unchained has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 7.8/10 for Dances with Wolves). Django Unchained is the shorter watch at 2h 45m compared with 3h 1m. Dances with Wolves is the older of the two (1990 against 2012). Both are drama, western movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dances with Wolves posterDances with Wolves1990 VS Django Unchained posterDjango Unchained2012
Dances with WolvesDjango Unchained
Audience score★ 7.8/10★ 8.2/10
Year19902012
Length3h 1m2h 45m
GenresAdventure, Drama, WesternDrama, Western
Country–United States of America
DirectorKevin CostnerQuentin Tarantino
Main castMary McDonnell, Kevin Costner, Robert Pastorelli, Maury Chaykin, Tantoo CardinalJames Remar, Walton Goggins, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, Ato Essandoh

Synopsis

Dances with Wolves

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

Django Unchained

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

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