"As historians, we're always worried about what (movie) people do, but I was moved by (Belle)," she says. "At first I thought I might have done other things with it but now I think they actually ...

Amma Asante’s Belle is like a Jane Austen novel spiked with an extra shot of social conscience. It’s based on the true story of a mixed-race 18th-century woman named Dido Elizabeth Belle who ...

This movie painting, unlike the original, has no effervescence or energy; it harbors no complicated secrets. And it certainly doesn't show a young black woman in a turban. Belle may have been ...

No, she isn't the latest fictional Disney princess to try to sing her way to the hearts of movie-goers. She is Dido Elizabeth Belle, and she was very much a real person. She is also the subject of ...

The movie packs a lot in, and the quick pace of early scenes can feel like running on a treadmill, but “Belle” settles into a nice rhythm. It ends up having all the requisites of a period ...

In the less harrowing but equally fascinating “Belle,” also based on a true story, class trumps race in 18th century England as the mixed-heritage title character is saved from the most brutal ...

In the terrific costume drama “Belle,” an 18th-century English lord waylays a young Anglo-African woman at a garden party. He asks if she has slept with his milksop brother. He sneers that he ...

It depicts Dido Elizabeth Belle and her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray and it was one of the first European portraits to show a black subject on an equal eyeline with a white aristocrat. This ...