The True Story of Pirates
Dec 31 2022
•1h 50m
•Documentary, TV Movie
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.
Cast
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Jean Soulat
Self-Archeologist
Martin Mares
Self-Historian
Anna Flori-Lamour
Narrator
Philippe Hrodej
Self-Historian
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