Real-life pirates like Charles Vane and Blackbeard are integrated into "Black Sails" with slight deviations from history. The ...

"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 1600s. His ship ...

For starters, she was a woman, a former sex worker who married into the pirate life but turned out to be really, really good at piracy. While Caribbean pirates like Blackbeard could boast a ...

Ahoy! Besides being the only place in the entire world where you can currently go to see real, actual, verifiable pirate treasure — although it's not the only treasure ever dredged up from a ...

were privateers before they decided that the pirate life was for them. During the golden age of piracy, their party place of choice was an island called Nassau in the Bahamas. Rumour has it that ...

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 ...

Their different energies speak to a curious real-life camaraderie, as their two pirates did actually collaborate in the early eighteenth century. "The central thing that makes the show interesting ...

It follows Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby), who left his wife, family, and position as a wealthy landowner to turn to a life of crime on the seas. Known as the "Gentleman Pirate," the real-life Bonnet ...