![]() ![]() It is competently acted and the special effects have been done well. So what you are left with are summaries of acts of famous English pirates. ![]() It focusses so much on Great Britain that it seems like there are barely any other nations involved. It will mention the war of succession, but will not explain it, it will tell you nothing of the technology, ships, warfare, politics or religion of the time period. First - it is told by the narrator, then it is acted out by the actors, then a historian has to comment on it and the next episode is has to be repeated in case you have forgotten. But the way this documentary has been structured means that something has to repeated no less than four times. It has a total of 6 episodes of 40 minutes, so I thought that it would had enough time to really flesh out the period. The scope of this documentary are roughly two years during the year 1716 - 1718 and then mainly about the pirates that sailed from Nassau. ![]()
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