Laureate

Nobel Peace Prize Concert (2006)

Actors: Paulina Rubio (actress), Anjelica Huston (actress), Wynonna Judd (actress), Sharon Stone (actress), Damian O'Neill (editor), Rihanna (actress), Julia Knowles (director), Lionel Richie (actor), John Legend (actor), Renée Fleming (actress), Cat Stevens (actor), Petter Skavlan (writer), Odd Arvid Strømstad (producer), Michael P. Mathis (producer), Sandy Colton (actress),

Genres: Music,

The New World (2005)

Actors: Roger Rees (actor), August Schellenberg (actor), Christopher Plummer (actor), Jonathan Pryce (actor), John Savage (actor), Raynor Scheine (actor), Colin Farrell (actor), Joe Inscoe (actor), Eddie Marsan (actor), Christian Bale (actor), Robin Atkin Downes (actor), Ben Mendelsohn (actor), Terry Jernigan (actor), Noah Taylor (actor), Wes Studi (actor),

Plot: 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, turn 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 Smith 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.

Keywords: 1600s, 1610s, 17th-century, abuse, adventurer, american-history, american-indian, archery, armor, attack
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance,
Taglines: Once discovered, it was changed forever

Quotes:

Captain John Smith: [voiceover] At the moment I was to die she threw herself upon me.

John Rolfe: [voiceover] When first I saw her she was regarded as someone finished, lost, broken. She seemed barely to notice of the others about her.

John Smith: He who does not work, shall not eat!

Pocahontas: Did you find your Indies, John? You shall.::Captain John Smith: [after a long reflective pause] I may have sailed past them.

Pocahontas: [voice over] I will find joy in all I see.

John Smith: [voice over] If only I could go down that river. To love her in the wild, forget the name of Smith. I should tell her. Tell her what? It was just a dream. I am now awake.

Captain Argall: Conscience is a nuisance. A fly. A barking dog.

Captain John Smith: Love... shall we deny it when it visits us... shall we not take what we are given.

John Rolfe: [voice over] Sweet wife, love made the bond, love can break it too.

John Rolfe: I think you still love the man, and that you will not be at peace until you see him. In my vanity I thought I could make you love me, and one cannot do that or should not. You have walked blindly into a situation that you did not anticipate.::Pocahontas: You are the man I thought you were and more.