Where was Dances with Wolves filmed?

1990 film directed by Kevin Costner

Dances with Wolves (1990) was filmed in Pierre, Rapid City, Fort Pierre, Sinte Gleska University and Triple U Buffalo Ranch, 5 places named in its Wikipedia article, in the United States. Wikidata itself records the shoot only as Kansas. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a statement, and every claim on this page says which it is.

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Places per Wikipedia's article

The article names 5 places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.

Places whose own article says it was shot there

1 place whose own Wikipedia article names this film as something shot there, where Wikidata records nothing and this film’s own article does not say so either. The weakest evidence on this atlas: no pin on the map, and nothing in the downloads. Each sentence is quoted whole and linked to the article it came from, so it can be judged rather than taken on trust.

• Triple U Buffalo Ranch United States

  “Formerly known as Standing Butte Ranch, it was used for location shooting in the 1990 movie Dances With Wolves and TNT's 1994 film Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee.” Wikipedia

Recorded only at country level

Wikidata also records this film as shot in Kansas, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.

Filming locations that are mapped there: United States

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