Product Details

• Actors: Cloud, Ginger Kathrens
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Questar
• DVD Release Date: July 1, 2003
• Run Time: 134 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000CBXZX
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #20,853 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Look for Cloud and his band in the Beautiful Rocky Muntains … Program 1 - Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies Cloud is a wild horse of a different color - almost pure white. And his regal bearing and feisty personality make him stand out all the more. From the day of his birth in the Rockies, he so enthralled Ginger Kathrens that she began to follow his story, filming him and his fellow wild horses of the Arrowhead Mountains over the course of seven years. But in the highly competitive "culture" of wild horses, was Cloud capable of becoming the great band stallion she expected? This first of two films documents the challenges he faces on the way to maturity. He is captured in a government roud-up and released without his family, and battles with other stallions to win a family of his own. This remarkable program sheds light on the rarely seen complexities of wild horse society, especially its strong need for family in an unpredictable world. Program 2 - Cloud's Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns Is there a beautiful new Cloud on the horizon? In this second film, Ginger kathrens unreels the next two years of her Cloud chronicles. Cloud is now a band stallion, with a family to care for. A new chapter of his life begins. Now he is a father, with two sons. The one he will raise is not of his blood. The other is Cloud's spitting image, but will never know him as a father. Yet Cloud's legacy is more than the passage of his genes, from father to son. He will also pass on all he has learned in the mountains to become a band stallion. His adopted son will profit from Cloud's skills as a protector, leader, and caretaker. And that may one day count for more than blood. But will the family survive the hazards of their environment - drought, storms, lightning, fire? You won't rest until you've seen this poignantly powerful tale of nature at its wildest. Extra Feature: My Life With Cloud Filmmaker Ginger Kathrens loves horses, but she has never known a horse as charismatic and fiercely independent as Cloud. In her own words, Kathrens gives fascinating insights on her years spent in the Rocky Mountains behind a camera, tracing the physical and social development of this uniquely beautiful wild stallion.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Whoa!!!!!!, August 21, 2005

By	G. Cichowski - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a beautiful film, BUT life can be harsh. I don't recomend this for sensitive children. There was death by lightening which we delt with. But, death by murder...In the scene there is a newborn who can't stand even after hours. All us grownups know it's not going to make it. Then a different band of horses move into the area and come to investigate the struggling newborn. It's sweet, one of the mares in this band tries to help the baby up. THEN... the stallion from this band comes up to the baby and seems to nuzzle it and you think "oh, how sweet, he's trying to help it too" He grabs the baby by the neck and starts viciously swinging it around like a rag doll. My two nine-year-olds screamed for an hour. "How could he do that to the poor baby? Why did the mommy let that happen...?" A real lesson in how life is not fair.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Through The Eye Of The Universe..., June 2, 2005

By	Screenwriter/author (California) - See all my reviews

Ginger Kathrens voice is like a soft breeze, soothing. Her camera lense, the eye of truth, exposes CLOUD's heart and soul. Getting to know CLOUD and company was a spiritual awakening for me. There's a magical moment where Ginger, sitting on her horse, watches Cloud and his new found family horse around! Cloud stops for a moment and acknowledges Ginger, as if saying 'thank you and goodbye--for now'.
This film is not just another 'wild animal' story. It's a gift. An unexpected gift, which in its essence is priceless.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Incredible, Riveting Study of Wild Horses, November 29, 2007

By	Stephen C. Pile (New York) - See all my reviews

Having raised horses, and experienced life and death among them, this film was riveting to me, and I continue to revisit it. That Ginger Kathrens spent so many years following and filming Cloud from birth to batchelorhood, to gathering his own band of mares is a gift to all of us who study and love horses. There are difficult scenes, e.g., the lightning deaths, the stallion killing the foal. Most of us who have raised foals know sometimes there is a "septic" birth, in which the foal is so ravaged with infection that it can't be saved even in an equine emergency room. And so the stallion did what he had to do from his genetic core. A stallion, or a mare for that matter, will also do this to a wolf, mountain lion, dog or anything that threatens the well-being of the mares.

There is so much to be learned from this video, not just about horses and herd behavior, but for ourselves as we project our emotions into these incredible animals. Part of my professional work is with human groups, and sometimes challenge them to work out their issues as quickly as a group of horses turned together for the first time. This film gives us a chance to think about ourselves as much as it does about horses.