The Greatest Scenes of All Time on Instagram: "Dances with Wolves was released on this day in 1990 🎬 Dances with Wolves is Kevin Costner’s wild swing at the old-school western, and somehow, he nailed it. Released in 1990, it came out when westerns were basically a dead genre, and critics didn’t expect much. Then boom — it blew everyone away. The story of a Union soldier befriending the Lakota Sioux hit hard, mixing sweeping landscapes, quiet humanity, and that epic John Barry score. Costner, in