The Lost Pirate Kingdom to Launch on Netflix as Original Series

The Lost Pirate Kingdom, a co-production between World Media Rights and ZDF Enterprises, will land on Netflix later this month as a new original factual series.

The six-part docuseries tells the story of the pirates of the Caribbean. The end of the war with Spain left British privateers, who worked as a freelance Naval force, out of work. Turning to piracy, they continued to take treasure from the Spanish and were ultimately outlawed by their own crown. They went on to set up the world’s first fully democratic republic in the Bahamas, freed the enslaved and gave them full voting rights.

The series features the real lives of pirate legends like Blackbeard, Henry Jennings, Benjamin Hornigold and Henry Vane. It also explores the tale of female pirate Anne Bonny. The Lost Pirate Kingdom uses a production technique called Hyper Dynamic Animation. This has allowed World Media Rights to re-create the pirate republic of Nassau as it was in 1715 with 4K back projection in front of live action.

ZDF Enterprises, which has a stake in World Media Rights, will distribute the new series worldwide outside of the territories and rights of Netflix. It will launch on Netflix on March 15.

Alan Griffiths, CEO of World Media Rights, said: “We’re thrilled that Netflix is bringing The Lost Pirate Kingdom to their 204 million subscribers as a Netflix original. The series uses techniques pioneered by World Media Rights which are a big leap forward in historical recreation. These techniques allow us to create lost worlds realistically and we have endeavored, through research, to recreate them exactly as they were.”