Spirit Stallion Of The Cimarron 〈FREE〉

He’s still running. And he’ll never be tamed.

And it remains one of the most breathtakingly beautiful, emotionally resonant animated films ever made.

From the opening frames, Spirit announces its intentions. We see a lone stallion, born from a storm, racing across a panoramic Western landscape. There’s no voiceover explaining his feelings. Instead, we get everything through Hans Zimmer’s thunderous, sweeping score, Bryan Adams’s soulful narration-songs, and the most expressive animation since Bambi .

That film was Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron .

One of the film’s quiet masterstrokes is the relationship between Spirit and Little Creek, a Lakota warrior. In any other studio film, the “wild animal” would learn to obey its human master. Here, they become equals.