Black Sails

About Black Sails

The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver.

Black Sails is an action-adventure series made for STARZ. It ran for 4 seasons and 38 episodes between January 2014 and April 2017. That is around 10 episodes a season.

Toby Stephens stars as Captain James Flint, Luke Arnold as John Silver, Hannah New as Eleanor Guthrie, and Jessica Parker Kennedy as Max. It comes from Film Afrika, Platinum Dunes, and Quaker Moving Pictures.

Members will find pirate, swashbuckler, period drama, and historical fiction in it. It streams on Philo, Spectrum On Demand, and Starz in the United States.

Our Flag Means Death, Crossbones, and Boardwalk Empire make useful companions to Black Sails. It scores 7.6 out of 10 from 1,545 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-MA rating.