The 6 episodes of this series alternate scenes of re-enactment and intervention of specialists ( historians, sociologists. Having become rich enough not to depend on any flag, they become pirates and work for their own benefit. As luck would have it, a Spanish fleet filled with fine metals sank, arousing the covetousness of some of these privateers.
In 1714, the War of the Spanish Succession ends, and the privateers who work for the kings find themselves idle. The series offered by the video-on-demand site begins its narrative at the beginning of the golden age of buccaneering. Fountain of the citadel of Barcelona (Photo Jean Phi 92/Flickr) Spanish wars of succession Netflix offers us, in 6 episodes, to better penetrate the life of privateers who became pirates after the Spanish Kingdom was defeated by the ships of Perfidious Albion. Not to mention the docu-dramas, which mix expert testimony with dramatization, which can be counted on the fingers of one hand. While films about pirates are legion, documentaries about these outlaws of the seas are far more numerous.
