Pocahontas (1995 film/My Version)

Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated musical comedy romance-drama film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Caravan Pictures and Lucasfilm Ltd. and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 23, 1995. It is the 33rd full-length animated feature film in the Disney Animated Canon and the sixth film in the Disney Renaissance. The film is the first animated feature Disney film to be based on a real historical character, the known history, and the folklore and legend that surrounds the Native American woman Pocahontas and features a fictionalized account of her encounter with Englishman John Smith and the settlers that arrived from the Virginia Company.

The film was directed by Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg, written by Carl Binder, Susannah Grant and Philip LaZebnik and produced by James Pentecost, Rick McCallum, Roger Birnbaum and Joe Roth. It features songs composed by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz.

Pocahontas received mixed reactions from reviewers, who praised its animation, musical score, themes, voice performances, characters and songs but criticized its story with its lack of focus on its tone. The film's historical inaccuracies and racial overtones received polarized responses. Despite the mixed reviews, Pocahontas was a commercial success earning $346 million at the box office. The film received two Academy Awards for Best Musical or Comedy Score for Menken and Best Original Song for "Colors of the Wind". According to critics, Pocahontas has influenced subsequent films.