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'New World' Offers New Take on Pocahontas [7min]

In the film The New World, writer-director Terrence Malick deals with the meeting of John Smith and Pocahontas. Though historians dismiss the idea that the two were romantically linked, the new film, like others before it, sticks with that version of the story.
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