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

In Disney flick Ratcliffe can be heard saying ... Disney’s version of Pocahontas centres John Smith, the man Pocahontas supposedly fell in love with. However in reality, Smith came to ...

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 ...

In Disney’s cartoon version of the story (and elsewhere), Pocahontas is shown to be involved romantically with an Englishman called Captain John Smith. He was real, but not her boyfriend.

Pocahontas is the most myth-encrusted figure in early America, a romantic “princess” who saves John Smith and the struggling Jamestown colony. But this fairy tale, familiar to millions today ...