Since the early 18th century, one symbol has spelled terror for sailors the world over like no other. Although it most ...

The prolific auteur’s new HBO Max series, starring Flight of the Conchords’ Rhys Darby, is a terribly funny (and true!) tale of a gentleman pirate and his merry band of thieves.

The personnel of the British submarine HMS Utmost showing off their Jolly Roger in February 1942. (Royal Navy/Imperial War Museum) While some of the markings on these pirate flags are self ...

Rhys Darby says it was a challenge playing the many layers of an 18th-century aristocrat who gives up his luxe life and family for a career in piracy in HBO Max's new workplace comedy, Our Flag ...

Our Flag Means Death is loosely based on the true adventures of Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby), a pampered aristocrat who abandons his life of privilege to become a pirate.

Hoist your flag, plunder the galley and accept every invite you get. Pirate-like behavior can help you navigate loneliness when your partner is away.

The Pirate Flag. Fred & Pete's Treasure Tales Series 1. Episode 1 of 30 ... The boys are surprised to find an old sheet with a funny picture of a skeleton on it. What could it mean?

In the fine, funny, oddly sweet and surprisingly fact-based period comedy “Our Flag Means Death,” beginning Thursday on HBO Max, Rhys Darby plays Stede Bonnet, a wealthy landowner who, in 1717 ...

Stede Bonnet, the hero of Our Flag Means Death, is a foppish, bookwormy 18th-century aristocrat with a striking and bizarre vanity project: He has commissioned a ship christened the Revenge ...