Dec 31, 2022
50 min
Full-HD

The True Story of Pirates (2022)

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.

Category

Documentary TV Movie

Country

France

Companies

Gedeon Programmes ARTE CuriosityStream

Jean Soulat

Self-Archeologist

Martin Mares

Self-Historian

Anna Flori-Lamour

Narrator

Philippe Hrodej

Self-Historian

Edward Mayhew

Curator - HMS Victory

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