Not content with the rescue story, Disney has expanded the rescue tale into a romance between the legendary couple ... The story about Pocahontas’ rescue of John Smith is steeped in legend ...

A couple of years ago, Disney decided that “Pocahontas ... Despite its invented romance, the film ends with Pocahontas spurning John Smith’s invitation to go with him to England.

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 ...

American animated movies like Pocahontas often call on prolific voice actors to enhance the narrative. The 1995 Disney feature ... of an English settler, John Smith. She falls in love with him ...

The couple moved to England ... but a tragedy. Disney’s version of Pocahontas centres John Smith, the man Pocahontas supposedly fell in love with. However in reality, Smith came to her ...

John Smith claimed Pocahontas ... it’s not just Disney—with its 1995 animated film Pocahontas—that gets the story wrong. This goes back to Smith, who marketed their relationship as a love ...

The story of Pocahontas was made popular by Disney in the 1995 eponymous animated film about an Indigenous girl and European colonist John Smith falling in love — but a new project is focusing ...