The Pirates of the Caribbean films became one of the most recognizable modern adventure franchises, built on a mix of ...

Or something like that – said with a “yaaarh” of course. We all have an idea of how Pirates were blood thirsty, cutlass-wielding, loot seeking, eye patch wearing, Parrot keeping rascals who were only ...

In real life, running across a pirate would be less than ideal. In pop culture, though, there are pirates abound. Some of them are scary, some of them are funny, and many of them are memorable ...

Most fascinating real-life pirate: Black Bart Roberts, or Bartholomew Roberts, a Welsh pirate who captured more than 400 ships off the Americas and West Africa in the early 18th century. Marooning. A ...

How we think famous swashbucklers walked, talked, and dressed didn't come from the history books, so where did these pirate myths come from? An illustration from 19th-century artist Howard Pyle ...