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TV Shows & Series: Best "swashbuckler" TV Shows/Series

Swashbuckler films are a subgenre of the action film genre, characterised by swordfighting and adventurous heroic characters, known as swashbucklers. While morality is typically clear-cut, heroes and villains alike often follow a code of honour. Some swashbuckler films have romantic elements, most frequently a damsel in distress. Both real and fictional historical events often feature prominently in the plot. ()
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Our Flag Means Death(2022-2023)

TV-MA
| 30min per episode | Comedy, Action & Adventure, Drama
4.0/5 (with 96 votes)

After trading in the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede Bonnet becomes captain of the pirate ship Revenge. Struggling to earn the respect of his potentially mutinous crew, Stede’s fortunes change after a fateful run-in with the infamous Captain Blackbeard. Stede and crew attempt to get their ship together and survive life on the high seas.

Directed by Taika Waititi - With Rhys Darby, Taika Waititi, Kristian Nairn, Rory Kinnear, Con O'Neill, Vico Ortiz, ...

The Adventures of Sinbad(1996-1998)

43min per episode | Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 19 votes)

The Adventures of Sinbad is a Canadian television series which aired from 1996 to 1998. It follows on the story from the pilot of the same name, and revolves around the series' protagonist, Sinbad. The series is a re-telling of the adventures of Sinbad from The Arabian Nights.

With Zen Gesner, George Buza, Tim Progosh, Oris Erhuero, Mariah Shirley, Jacqueline Collen, ...

Black Sails(2014-2017)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure
3.8/5 (with 603 votes)

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. Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.

Directed by Neil Marshall, Sam Miller - With Toby Stephens, Hannah New, Luke Arnold, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Tom Hopper, Zach McGowan, ...

Zorro(1957-1959)

TV-G
| 24min per episode | Western, Action & Adventure, Drama, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 49 votes)

Diego de la Vega, the son of a wealthy landowner, returns from his studies in Spain and discovers that Los Angeles is under the command of Capitan Monastario, a cruel man who relishes in the misuse of his power for personal gain. Knowing that he cannot hope to single-handedly defeat Monastario and his troops, Diego resorts to subterfuge. He adopts the secret identity of Zorro, a sinister figure dressed in black, and rides to fight Monastario's injustice.

With Guy Williams, Don Diamond, Henry Calvin, Gene Sheldon, George J. Lewis, Britt Lomond, ...

The Buccaneers(1956-1957)

TV-G
| 30min per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Kids & Family, Crime
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.

With Robert Shaw

Zorro(1990-1993)

1h per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama
3.6/5 (with 126 votes)

Zorro, also known as The New Zorro, New World Zorro, and Zorro 1990, is an American action-adventure drama series featuring Duncan Regehr as the character of Zorro. Regehr portrayed the fearless Latino hero and fencer on The Family Channel from 1990 to 1993. The series was shot entirely in Madrid, Spain and produced by New World Television, The Family Channel, Ellipse Programme of Canal Plus, Beta TV, and RAI. 88 episodes of the series were produced, 10 more than the first Zorro television series, which was produced by Disney in the late 1950s. Since 2011, the series is currently airing in the United States on the Retro Television Network as The New Zorro. Peter Rodgers Organization is the distributor for this version of Zorro.

With Duncan Regehr

Crossbones(2014)

TV-14
| 42min per episode | Drama
3.0/5 (with 35 votes)

It's 1715 on the Bahamian island of New Providence, the first functioning democracy in the Americas, where the diabolical pirate Edward Teach, a.k.a. Blackbeard, reigns over a rogue nation of thieves, outlaws and miscreant sailors. Part shantytown, part marauder's paradise, this is a place like no other on earth - and a mounting threat to international commerce. To gain control of this fearsome society, Tom Lowe, a highly skilled undercover assassin, is sent to the buccaneers' haven to take down the brilliant and charismatic Blackbeard. But the closer Lowe gets, the more he finds that his quest is not so simple. Lowe can't help but admire the political ideals of Blackbeard, whose thirst for knowledge knows no bounds - and no law. But Lowe is not the only danger to Blackbeard's rule. He is a man with many villainous rivals and one great weakness - a passionately driven woman whom he cannot deny.

With John Malkovich, Richard Coyle, Claire Foy, Yasmine Al Massri

The Adventures Of Long John Silver(1957)

TV-PG
| 30min per episode | Action & Adventure
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A TV series about the Long John Silver character from Treasure Island. It was made in 1954 in colour in Australia for the American and British markets before the development of Australian television. Long John Silver is the proud captain of his own ship and his own crew. He and his buccaneer cruise around the Caribbean and often stay on the side of the English and fight the French and Spanish. After the long and dangerous adventures, he and his crew rest in the tavern of Miss Purity. This series aired in the United States first on Syndicated basis in 1956, but not on a regular basis and completely random as part of another show. Several episodes were edited together and shown as movies in the cinemas under the titles: Under The Black Flag and South Sea Pirates. After that it was sold to the ITV Network in the UK, and aired in 1957. In 1958 Australian ABC screened the series as part of Children's TV Club show.

Directed by Byron Haskin, Lee Sholem - With Robert Newton, Connie Gilchrist