The Latest Breaking News from Will Smith

Guardian clip which attracted more than 103m views and 1.5m likes was highest trending in UK this year

In March 1863, two months after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a Black man known as Peter (other accounts name him as Gordon) escaped a Louisiana plantation, endured 10 days in alligator-infested marshes and found his way to Baton Rouge, where he received medical attention and soon enlisted…

The clip racked up millions of views

Will Smith stepped out on the red carpet alongside wife Jada Pinkett Smith and their three children in the family's first red carpet appearance since Will slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars

Will Smith sticks to Movie Star mode as a family man dodging hunters, bullets, a gator and a snake while fleeing slavery.

Smith brings movie-star presence to historical figure whose suffering and dignity became an iconic abolitionist image

Historical action film is primarily concerned with individual heroism to a near-mythic extent

Infamous Oscar assault after comedian's joke about actor's wife has had over 103 million views on the social media channel

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are popular for the wrong reasons