Disney's Pocahontas was based on true story of the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of the Powhatan Confederacy, a group of Algonquian-speaking tribes in Virginia. (Disney) Disney's animated ...

The animated tale was both controversial and an Oscar-winning box office hit. It’s also one of the rare films from that era that the company isn’t eager to remake. By Brooks Barnes Brooks Barnes has ...

For the 20 th anniversary of the movie, my colleague Sophie Gilbert made the case that Pocahontas is “Disney’s most radical heroine”: [The studio] had, for the first time, based an entire picture ...