Pocahontas was one of the biggest Disney movies of the 1990s and has stayed a favourite for many families for the last 30 years. But many Disney fans are only just realising that Pocahontas was ...

People are only just learning a Disney villain was based on a real person - and died one of the most horrific deaths ever.

The only ‘real’ existing image of Pocahontas is an engraving by Simon van de Passe, done while she was in England, wearing English attire. Is the story of John Smith and Pocahontas true?

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 ...