When you walk into the Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, which opens today, the first thing you do is watch a short movie, one of those ...

Historian Angus Konstam joins WIRED to answer the internet's swashbuckling questions about pirates and piracy. Where did the stereotypical pirate accent come from? What did pirates do for fun? Why do ...

The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has always had a loose association with history, but these five real-life pirates would be perfect additions to Pirates of the Caribbean 6. Many of the main ...

Saturday marks the 308th anniversary of the sinking of the pirate ship, Whydah, after one of the worst storms in history hit the boat off the coast of Cape Cod. The ship was commissioned in 1715 by ...

The Pirate Bay documentary has received full funding through Kickstarter. They received $51,434 from 1737 backers, adding up to $29 per backer. With an initial goal of $25,000 to fund a professional ...

A new radio documentary captures the impact of Irish pirate radio stations in the 1980s. Russell Padmore, who spent 27 years as a BBC correspondent, said he owes his media career to Irish pirate radio ...