Pirates of the Caribbean isn't the most historically accurate franchise, but these 5 real-life pirates would be perfect ...

Saturday marks the 308th anniversary of the sinking of the pirate ship, Whydah, after one of the worst storms in history hit ...

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

A pirate capture, a castaway island...In 1722, a young fisherman named Philip Ashton became the central figure in what became ...

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 ...

Imagine a place where pirates made the rules... No kings, no taxes, just freedom and treasure. For a short time in history, ...

"We went to our training," he said, declining to provide details: "If I tell you all what we did, pirates, they would know." Watch the crew praise their captain » The pirates intended to ask for ...

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 ...

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 ...