Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303929590 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 6303929591 Label: Walt Disney Video Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Walt Disney Video Release Date: June 23, 1997 Running Time: 102 minutes Sales Rank: 18327 Studio: Walt Disney Video Theatrical Release Date: October 28, 1994
Description: Get ready for nonstop action in this rousing tale of a Native American who defies incredible odds in his struggle for freedom! Squanto, a young warrior abducted from his homeland and enslaved must battle impossible hazards on a desperate journey home. Driven by a passion to be free, he risks everything to escape his captors, braving the wilderness and triumphing, finally, as a great leader. A vivid true story of one man's unquenchable thirst for independence, SQUANTO thrills with high-powered action and inspires with legendary courage!
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Rating: - not factually perfect, but a great teaching tool
If you are looking for a historically precise biography of Squanto's life, this movie is not the place.
If you would like to show kids 8 years and up how life was for the early New England settlers and Native Americans and teach them a valuable lesson of acceptance, this is a five star movie.
I've used this movie for several years with my fourth grade class. After the movie, I have them highlight differences between the movie and this short biography (updated with research published in the Nov/Dec issue of Native Peoples magazine by Richard Williams):
One day in 1605, a young Patuxet boy named Tisquantum (later known as Squanto) and his dog were hunting when they saw a large ship off the coast of Plymouth, Massachusetts. The people on the ship came to trade with the Native Americans (Indians). After trading, the ship's captain George Weymouth invited Squanto, his friend Samoset, ... Read More
Rating: - good movie
My husband uses this movie for his Social Studies Class, it says what he needs it to say.
Rating: - A great clean movie.
A great, entertaing movie. Pay not attention to these "history buff" people. Not everything has to be historically accurate. Just enjoy the movie - that is why they are made.
Rating: - Soaring Hawk
This is a very entertaining Disney movie. Unfortunatly Disney feels the need to slap a true life title on some movies to associate them with real people and so I only gave it three stars when it should have been four or five. Just like they did with the Pocohontas movie. Both are mostly fiction and have nothing to do with the real stories. Squanto just like Pocohontas was real, this movie's only likeness to Squanto's true life is being befriended by monks (not Spanish though as they should have been), and finding his village wiped out from disease after years of being away. The rest is mostly fiction made up by writers hailing from the old Westerns where Native Americans and Europeans fought all the time. I guess they thought that would be more exciting. Personally I say Disney, either tell the true story or call it another name. Call this Soaring Hawk or some other name, just not Squanto and then it becomes acceptable ... Read More
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