While pirates have been notably obsessed with treasure chests in popular media in modern times, the Pirates of the Caribbean movies use treasure as a looser term, applying it to other goals and ...

The Curse of the Black Pearl was doubted by Hollywood—but it defied expectations to gross $654M and launch a blockbuster ...

In search of his pirate ancestor's buried treasure, aviator Dick Moreland sets out on an expedition to the Caribbean to recover the booty. When Moreland's map is stolen by Stanley Brasset ...

She debunks common pirate tropes, such as buried treasure, treasure maps ... Rebecca Simon, a piracy historian, rates pirate battles in movies and TV shows, such as the "Pirates of the Caribbean ...