This engraving is the only known portrait of Pocahontas rendered from life. During her stay in England, Dutch engraver Simon van de Passe captured her likeness and recorded that she, like the ...
The broad strokes of Pocahontas’s biography are well known—unusually so for a 17th-century Indigenous woman. Yet her life has long been shrouded by misunderstandings and misinformation ...
Edward Norton learned about his family's relation to Pocahontas on PBS show Finding Your Roots Actor Edward Norton had grown up hearing tales of his family's relation to Native American heroine ...
In Disney's recent version of the Pocahontas story, as in countless iterations before it, John Smith appears as a dashing romantic hero, smitten by the Indian "princess." Their relationship ...
Historians believe that the figure now more commonly called Pocahontas was born somewhere around 1596 in the part of America now known as Virginia. Her dad was a renowned Native American leader ...
The soundtrack was created by Disney music mogul Alan Menken (the very same guy who scored The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Tangled, The Hunchback of Notre Dame ...
It's a testament to Disney's branding that mainstream audiences don't necessarily know who directed or starred in some of their better-known movies. Although many have seen the studio's 1950 ...
Jameela Jamil has said she's "thrilled" to be part of Disney's Indian-inspired series, Mira, Royal Detective, "with a smart girl as the lead". The show is a mystery-adventure series set in ...
Known for his timeless scores and unforgettable songs from Disney classics such as ‘Beauty and the Beast', ‘Aladdin', ‘The Little Mermaid' and ‘Pocahontas', Menken's performance promises to be an ...