Young Pocahontas

• 1997
• Animation
• US

Directed by Bill Schwartz

Drums thunder through the woods: English longboats are already pushing upriver, and nobody in the village knows whether they bring peace or war. Among them runs Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, happier climbing trees and chattering with the forest animals than sitting still with the elders. Her meeting with Captain John Smith turns her curiosity into the thinnest of threads holding two peoples back from conflict. A modest, warm-hearted animated adventure, tailor-made for rental-shop afternoons and a big bowl of popcorn.