The True Story of Pirates

Dec 31, 2022

0h 50m

★ 7.9

Pirates! Hollywood has fueled our imaginations and turned them into popular icons. Beyond literature and fantasy the documentary reveals who these fearless adventurers and these masters of the sea once were.

Overview

Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in France, Spain, England and Canada, a group of international scholars paint a new portrait of the world of piracy in the Indian Ocean.

Genres

Documentary

TV Movie

Production Companies

Gedeon Programmes

ARTE

CuriosityStream

The True Story of Pirates Trailers

Cast

Self-Archeologist

Jean Soulat

Self-Historian

Martin Mares

Narrator

Anna Flori-Lamour

Self-Historian

Philippe Hrodej

Curator - HMS Victory

Edward Mayhew

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