Kevin Costner, who is facing a sexual harassment and breach of contract lawsuit, is no stranger to headline-making court cases and controversies.

Between iconic films like Dances with Wolves and mega-hit TV series like Yellowstone, Kevin Costner has become synonymous with the American West. And beginning tonight, the legendary actor will explore the epic history of the nation's land in a new docuseries for the History Channel.

Hollywood actor Kevin Costner believes that American education ought to be focused more on history rather than math.

Kevin Costner may have left Yellowstone on not the best of terms, but for the most part, he speaks about the show quite highly. For example, he recently complimented how the series captured “modern-day ranching.

“I’m not in the hit business,” he told the Los Angeles Times, which isn’t exactly true. Dances with Wolves, The Bodyguard, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, JFK, Tin Cup, and Bull Durham all turned a tidy profit with Costner in the leading role, and it was those hits that elevated him to A-list status in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

One of the buffalo in Kevin Costner's epic Dances with Wolves actually belonged to a famous musician (who knew just how to calm the animal's nerves).