Captain Smith is spared his mutinous hanging sentence after captain
Newport's ship arrives in 1607 to found Jamestown, an English colony in
Virginia. The initially friendly natives, who have no personal property
concept, turns hostile after a 'theft' is 'punished' violently on the spot.
During an armed exploration, Smith is captured, but spared when the chief's
favorite daughter Pocahontas pleads for the stranger who soon becomes her
lover and learns to love their naive 'savage' way of harmonious life.
Ultimately he returns to the grim fort, which would starve hadn't she
arranged for Indian generosity. Alas, each side soon brands their own lover
a traitor, so she is banished and he flogged as introduction to slavish
toiling. Changes turn again, leading Smiyth to accept a northern-more
mission and anglicized Pocahontas, believing him dead, becoming the mother
of aristocratic new lover John Rolfe's son. They'll meet again for a finale
in England.
When 17th century explorer John Smith and a few men go up the river to
trade with the Indians, he befriends the princess Pocahontas and they fall
in love. While in love, Smith must obtain his duties as president of
Jamestown fort and challenges to himself what is the better path for
himself to take: stay with the fallen apart colony or go up the river and
love Pocahontas in the wild. The Indians realize that the English do not
mean to leave, so they attack. A few men at the fort decide to capture
Pocahontas as a hostage so the Indians will not attack them. Smith is
ordered to leave Jamestown by the King, and John Rolfe, a wealthy tobacco
planter arrives at the fort. Pocahontas, now living there adapts to the
English cultures and falls in love with Rolfe. She falls apart deciding who
she is dedicated to, Smith or Rolfe.
In the beginning of the Seventeenth Century, along the English colonization
of North America, Captain John Smith leaves the Jamestown fort to explore
another area and trade with the Indians, but he is captured. The princess
Pocahontas asks her father to spare Captain Smith's life and they fall in
love for each other. When he returns to the colony, he becomes the
president of Jamestown and finds people starving, but Pocahontas brings
supplies, saves them and falls in disgrace with her people. When the
Indians realize that the English will not leave their country, they attack
and after a bloody battle, the English trade Pocahontas and lodge her in
the fort to protect their families, and Captain Smith loses his position
because he does not agree with the arrangement. With the return of Captain
Newport, Captain Smith is promoted and sent back to England, and he asks a
friend to tell Pocahontas that he drowned along the trip. Pocahontas is
civilized and baptized by the English and John Rolfe proposes and marries
her. Many years later, she hears that Captain Smith is alive, and she has
to decide if she keeps her marriage or follows her heart.
