Pocahontas: Ambassador of the New World
Episode 12 · 2005-12-09
- Documentary
Episode overview
She was a Native American princess who saved the life of English explorer Captain John Smith at the age of 12. Before her death at 22, she had single-handedly forged an improbably peace between two nations. Popular history remembers Pocahontas for a single act of courage, yet she had a vision of peaceful cooperation between the European settlers and her own people that was revolutionary in its modernity, despite jeopardizing her own safety. Ambassador, stateswoman, peacemaker, visionary, and friend, Pocahontas's struggle ultimately cost her life--but she lives on in the survival of the colony that led to the birth of a nation. Through location footage, fascinating interviews, realistic reenactments, and original period accounts, Biography presents the remarkable life and enduring legacy of one of the most intriguing figures in early American history.
60 minutes
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