Blackbeard: Terror at Sea

[1][2] It aired in the United States on March 12, 2006 on National Geographic and was released on DVD in the Netherlands in July 2006, by Just Entertainment.

The story, told in retrospect by Israel Hands, a former friend and companion of Blackbeard, begins in June 1717, in the Bahamas.

During landfall at the pirate haven of Nassau, New Providence, Hands meets Edward Teach, and joins his crew.

Meanwhile in Virginia, one of the richest British colonies in the Americas, governor Alexander Spotswood is incensed by the economic damage caused by piracy.

Unlike Virginia, it is a poorer colony with few goods and ships, and can't be choosy about trading partners.

Louis Arot, who sailed on the "La Concorde" as cabin boy and is actually a teenage girl in disguise, joins the pirate crew and becomes well liked by Hands and Morton (Blackbeards chief gunner), but has to keep his real identity a secret.

Some months later, after taking several more prizes, they spot a large ship, which Hands identifies as the "Great Allen", a merchant vessel from Boston.

Teach is angered upon hearing this, as he recollects the story of Captain Bellamy's pirate crew, some of them were picked up by a ship from Boston after being shipwrecked.

He, his son and other passengers are taken hostage and Teach sends two pirates ashore to gather medicine in exchange for their release.

For a while he settles down in North Carolina and marries Mary Ormond, a young lady from a wealthy local family.

However, he soon tires of life on land, while his crew becomes unruly due to his absence and boredom, whereupon they return to sea and piracy.

As many of their comrades have either taken the pardon or are hunted down, Blackbeard realises that their time is running out and their story will soon be coming to an end.

Antonia Campbell as Louis Arot, a French teenage girl in disguise, cabin boy on the "La Concorde" and later member of Blackbeard's crew.