Terrence Malick · 2005 · sea

Terrence Malick's 2005 telling of the Jamestown founding. In 1607 the Virginia Company's three ships cross the Atlantic to plant England's first lasting colony on the Chesapeake, where the soldier John Smith meets the Powhatan woman Pocahontas. Years on, married to John Rolfe and a mother, she makes the reverse voyage to England - received at court, dead at Gravesend before the voyage home.

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   London

   The Virginia Company's three small ships - Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery - sail from London for the New World, John Smith among them in irons, bound for a coast no English colony has yet held.

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   Jamestown

   On the Chesapeake the settlers raise the Jamestown fort against starvation and the Powhatan; captured and brought to Werowocomoco, Smith is spared by the chief's daughter Pocahontas, and a fragile peace holds.

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   Gravesend

   Baptised, married to John Rolfe and mother to a son, Pocahontas crosses to England as the colony's living proof, is received at court - and dies at Gravesend as the ship prepares to carry her home.