Yet as The Lost Pirate Kingdom shows, this isn't the case.
With this in mind, it's understandable to think that the movies are completely inaccurate to the time period they're set in. Related: Every Pirates Of The Caribbean Movie In Chronological Order They also sanded down the rougher sides of the pirate life in order to appeal to families, earning each of the films a relatively tame PG-13 rating. Instead, they focused on their more fantastical elements, telling fun outlandish adventure stories with fictional characters like Jack Sparrow and Will Turner.
Being Disney movies, they were never going to be completely realistic historical dramas. Based on the Disneyland ride of the same name, the franchise proved incredibly popular, and revived interest in the pirate genre for both film and television. Modern depictions of pirates have been largely defined by the Pirates of the Caribbean films from Disney. The time period was represented surprisingly well - minus the ghosts and sea monsters, of course. The new Netflix documentary drama series The Lost Pirate Kingdom shows just how accurate the Pirates of the Caribbeanfilms were to actual pirate history.
