Lists of films by genre and themes
Piracy
This is a list of pirate films and TV series, primarily in the pirate film genre, about the Golden Age of Piracy from the 17th through 18th centuries. The list includes films about other periods of piracy, TV series, and films tangentially related, such as pirate-themed pornographic films. Films about other types of piracy, such as music piracy, are not included.
| Released | Title | Country | Director | Notable cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1908 | L'Honneur du corsaire | France | Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset | Charles Krauss | Short film |
| The Pirate's Gold | United States | D. W. Griffith | George Gebhardt, Linda Arvidson, Charles Inslee | Short Film | |
| 1909 | Morgan le pirate | France | Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset | Jean-Marie de l'Isle | Serial (3 parts) |
| Released | Title | Country | Director | Notable cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | Blackbeard | United States | Francis Boggs | Sydney Ayres, Hobart Bosworth | Short film about Blackbeard (c. 1680 – 1718) |
| 1912 | Treasure Island | United States | J. Searle Dawley | Addison Rothermel, Ben F. Wilson, Charles Ogle | Short film based on Treasure Island |
| 1913 | Pirate Gold | United States | Wilfred Lucas | Blanche Sweet, Charles Hill Mailes, J. Jiquel Lanoe | Short Film |
| 1915 | The Footsteps of Capt. Kidd | United States | Rex Beach, Edward A. Salisbury | Documentary | |
| On the Spanish Main | United States | Rex Beach, Edward A. Salisbury | Documentary | ||
| Pirate Haunts | United States | Rex Beach, Edward A. Salisbury | Documentary | ||
| A Submarine Pirate | United States | Charles Avery, Sydney Chaplin | Sydney Chaplin, Wesley Ruggles | Short film featuring submarine piracy | |
| 1916 | Colonel Heeza Liar and the Pirates | United States | John Randolph Bray | Animated comedy short film | |
| Daphne and the Pirate | United States | Christy Cabanne | Lillian Gish, Elliott Dexter, Walter Long | ||
| 1918 | The Sea Panther | United States | Thomas N. Heffron | William Desmond, Mary Warren, Jack Richardson | |
| Treasure Island | United States | Chester M. Franklin, Sidney Franklin | Francis Carpenter, Virginia Lee Corbin, Violet Radcliffe | Based on Treasure Island | |
| 1919 | Störtebeker | Ernst Wendt | Film about Klaus Störtebeker (c. 1360 – 1401), set in the North Sea and Baltic Sea |
| Released | Title | Country | Director | Notable cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | One Piece: The Movie | Japan | Junji Shimizu | Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Kappei Yamaguchi | Based on One Piece and its anime adaptation |
| Agent Red | United States | Damian Lee | Dolph Lundgren, Alexander Kuznetov, Natalie Radford | Submarine piracy | |
| 2001 | The Abrafaxe – Under The Black Flag | Germany | Gerhard Hahn | Animated fantasy film with Blackbeard (c. 1680 – 1718) | |
| 2002 | Treasure Planet | United States | Ron Clements, John Musker | Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emma Thompson, Martin Short (voices) | Animated science fiction film, based on Treasure Island |
| 2003 | Captain Sabertooth | Norway | Stig Bergqvist, Rasmus A. Sivertsen | Terje Formoe, Ole Alfsen, Nina Lund Feste (voices) | Comedy |
| One Piece The Movie: Dead End no Bōken | Japan | Kōnosuke Uda | Based on One Piece and its anime adaptation | ||
| Peter Pan | United States | P. J. Hogan | Jeremy Sumpter, Jason Isaacs, Olivia Williams | Based on Peter and Wendy | |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | United States | Gore Verbinski | Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley | ||
| Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | United States | Tim Johnson, Patrick Gilmore | Animated comedy film. Set in the Mediterranean Sea | ||
| Singing Behind Screens | Ermanno Olmi | Jun Ichikawa, Bud Spencer | Film about Ching Shih (1775–1844) | ||
| 2004 | One Piece: The Cursed Holy Sword | Japan | Kazuhisa Takenouchi | Based on One Piece and its anime adaptation | |
| 2005 | Piet Piraat en de betoverde kroon | Bart Van Leemputten | Peter Van De Velde | ||
| The Pirate's Curse | Mark Roper | Thomas Ian Griffith | |||
| Submerged | United States | Anthony Hickox | Steven Seagal, William Hope, Vinnie Jones | Submarine piracy | |
| Pirates | United States | Joone | Jesse Jane, Carmen Luvana, Janine, Teagan Presley, Devon, Jenaveve Jolie and Evan Stone | Pornographic film | |
| Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove | United States | Gary Jones | Rhett Giles, Tom Nagel, Kristina Korn | Slasher film about a vengeful undead pirate. Set in modern times.[1] | |
| 2006 | Pirates of Treasure Island | United States | Leigh Scott | Lance Henriksen | Based on Treasure Island |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | United States | Gore Verbinski | Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley | ||
| Pirates of the Great Salt Lake | United States | E. R. Nelson | Kirby Heyborne, Trenton James, Larry Bagby | ||
| A Pirate's Heart | Miguel Alexandre | Ken Duken, Claire Keim, Gottfried John, Gudrun Landgrebe, Frank Giering | Television film about Klaus Störtebeker (c. 1360 – 1401), set in the North Sea and Baltic Sea | ||
| 2007 | Band of Pirates: Buccaneer Island | Bruce Mercury, TL Jones | Bruce Mercury, TL Jones | ||
| L'Île aux trésors | France | Alain Berbérian | Gérard Jugnot, Alice Taglioni, Jean-Paul Rouve | Based on Treasure Island | |
| One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta | Japan | Takahiro Imamura | Based on One Piece and its anime adaptation | ||
| Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | United States | Gore Verbinski | Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Chow Yun-Fat, Geoffrey Rush | ||
| Treasure Island | Germany | Hansjörg Thurn | Tobias Moretti, François Goeske, Diane Willems, Christian Tramitz, Jürgen Vogel | A German television film, Die Schatzinsel, based on the novel by R.L. Stevenson, it adds a character, Captain Flint's daughter | |
| Mercedes Ray | United States | Tucker Lucas | Amber Rae Bernhardt, Scott Horvik, Scott Edward Haugen, David Wintersteen, J.J. Gordon, Steve Poitras | A low-budget sci-fi comedy about a young, antiquities-pilfering female pirate who, by way of her ramshackle homemade time machine, inadvertently causes numerous past U.S. presidents to be transported to modern-day 21st Century America. | |
| 2008 | Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge | United States | Joone | Jesse Jane, Belladonna, Evan Stone | Pornographic film |
| The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie | United States | Mike Nawrocki | Animated comedy film | ||
| 2009 | 12 Paces Without a Head | Germany | Sven Taddicken | Ronald Zehrfeld, Matthias Schweighöfer | Film about Klaus Störtebeker (c. 1360 – 1401), set in the North Sea and Baltic Sea |
| One Piece Film: Strong World | Japan | Munehisa Sakai | Based on One Piece and its anime adaptation |
| Released | Title | Country | Director | Notable cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | One Piece Film: Red | Japan | Gorō Taniguchi | Based on One Piece and its anime adaptation | |
| 2023 | Peter Pan & Wendy | United States | David Lowery | Jude Law, Jim Gaffigan | Based on Peter Pan and Wendy |
| Released | Title | Country | Director | Notable cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | The Adventures of Long John Silver | Australia | Byron Haskin | Robert Newton, Connie Gilchrist, Kit Taylor | 26 episode TV series filmed in colour in Australia. |
| 1956 | The Buccaneers | United Kingdom | C.M. Pennington-Richards | Robert Shaw, Paul Hansard, Brian Rawlinson | |
| 1986 | Return to Treasure Island | United Kingdom | Alan Clayton | Brian Blessed, Christopher Guard, Reiner Schöne | Television miniseries based on Treasure Island |
| 1987 | Treasure Island in Outer Space | Italy | Antonio Margheriti | Anthony Quinn, Ernest Borgnine, Klaus Löwitsch | Science fiction miniseries, based on Treasure Island |
| 1990 | Peter Pan and the Pirates | United States | Tim Curry, Kath Soucie, Chris M. Allport (voices) | Animated series based on Peter and Wendy | |
| 1991 | The Pirates of Dark Water | United States | Jodi Benson, Héctor Elizondo, George Newbern (voices) | Animated television series | |
| 1994 | Pirates | United Kingdom | Peter Tabern | Mem Ferda, Benjamin Rennis, June Brown | Children's television series |
| 1996 | Return to Treasure Island | Steve La Hood | Jed Brophy, Will Clannachan, Richard Condon | Based on Treasure Island | |
| 1997 | Pirate Tales | Kevin McCarey | Chuck Shamata, Roger Daltrey, Richard Schumann | Television miniseries | |
| 1998 | Mad Jack the Pirate | United States | Animated television series | ||
| 1999 | Caraibi | Lamberto Bava | Paolo Seganti, Nicholas Rogers, Mario Adorf, Padma Lakshmi, Jennifer Nitsch | Television miniseries also known as Pirates: Blood Brothers | |
| One Piece | Japan | Anime adaptation of the manga One Piece | |||
| Famille Pirate | France
Germany Canada |
Animated television series | |||
| 2003 | Pirate Islands | Australian | Brooke Harman, Nicholas Donaldson, Eliza Taylor | ||
| 2006 | Blackbeard | United States | Kevin Connor | Angus Macfadyen, Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Stacy Keach | TV miniseries about Blackbeard (c. 1680 – 1718) |
| Blackbeard: Terror at Sea | United Kingdom | Richard Dale, Tilman Remme | James Purefoy | TV miniseries about Blackbeard (c. 1680 – 1718) | |
| 2011 | Jake and the Never Land Pirates | United States | Animated television series | ||
| Piratas | Spain | ||||
| 2012 | Treasure Island | United Kingdom
Ireland |
Steve Barron | Eddie Izzard, Toby Regbo, Elijah Wood, Donald Sutherland | Television miniseries based on Treasure Island |
| 2014 | Black Sails | United States | Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine | Toby Stephens, Hannah New, Luke Arnold | Set roughly two decades before the events of Treasure Island and during the Golden Age of Piracy. |
| Crossbones | United States | Neil Cross, James V. Hart and Amanda Welles | John Malkovich, Richard Coyle, Claire Foy, Yasmine Al Masri, David Hoflin, Chris Perfetti, Tracy Ifeachor | Based on Colin Woodard's book The Republic of Pirates. | |
| 2017 | The Pirates Next Door | France | Animated television series | ||
| 2021 | The Lost Pirate Kingdom | United States | Stan Griffin, Justin Rickett, Patrick Dickinson | Sam Callis, James Oliver Wheatley, Derek Jacobi | Netflix docuseries portraying the rise and fall of the 18th century pirate republic based in Nassau, Bahamas. |
| 2022 | Our Flag Means Death | United States | David Jenkins | Rhys Darby, Taika Waititi, Kristian Nairn, Rory Kinnear | Period comedy semi-based on the story of Stede Bonnet, an aristocrat who abandons his life to become a pirate. |
| 2023 | One Piece | United Kingdom
United States Japan |
Live-action adaptation of the manga One Piece |
| Title | Number of films | Years | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| One Piece | 15 | 2000–2022 | Based on One Piece anime |
| Pirates of the Caribbean | 5 | 2003–present |
