Living Legends — Season 1, Episode 6: Captain Kidd
Documentary • 30 min • 1 season, 6 episodes
Episode synopsis
The real Captain Kidd was a merchant sea-captain, a man of property and an honoured citizen of New York. He was 50 when he was given the King's commission to hunt down pirates in the Indian Ocean. Two years later he died on the gallows in London, a convicted pirate himself.
About Living Legends
A series of six programmes about the truth behind some of the popular figures in British history.