Our Flag Means Death and Black Sails are both fantastic shows about the Golden Age of Piracy - but how do they compare to the ...

The real-life captain whose high-seas ordeal became a Hollywood blockbuster is coming to Frankenmuth. Richard Phillips, the former cargo ship captain who was held hostage by Somali pirates in 2009, ...

Capt. Horatio Sinbad, the professional buccaneer who stormed the Beaufort waters in a homemade pirate ship, blasting cannons ...

Rebecca Simon, a piracy historian, rates pirate battles in movies and TV shows, such as the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, for realism. Simon breaks down the accuracy of pirate battle tactics ...

asks who the captain is. "Edward Teach," the man says. "Blackbeard" Teach, known more commonly by his colorful nickname, was a real-life pirate who sailed the West Indies and Caribbean in the late ...

MANAMA, Bahrain (CNN)-- U.S. Navy snipers fatally shot three pirates holding an American cargo-ship captain hostage after seeing that one of the pirates "had an AK-47 leveled at the captain's back ...

Born Ross Andrew Morpheus, a name he shunned, Sinbad arrived in Beaufort in 1973 and quickly became a fixture in the town’s annual pirate invasion — a reenactment of the real Spanish raids of ...