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This film is dedicated to all who worked and broadcast on the pirate stations - all those wonderful years, all day and all of the night. Alternate versions US distributor, Universal have chosen to re-title the film as "Pirate Radio" and release it under Focus Features in US territories.
Millions of Britons are tuning in to Pirate Radio, and this greatly disturbs Sir Alistair Dormandy (Kenneth Branagh), who is put in charge of eliminating the problem of Pirate Radio. With the help of his new assistant, Twatt (Jack Davenport), they begin working to put Pirate Radio out of business.
Pump Up the Volume: Directed by Allan Moyle. With Anthony Luke Lucero, Andy Romano, Keith Stuart Thayer, Cheryl Pollak. Mark runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens.
The Boat That Rocked (2009) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
I found 31 different ranked lists online of “best pirate movies of all time” and averaged them all to create this list. My full results and methodology are on my website: https://www.listobsession.com/best-pirate-movies/
Partly based on real events, the movie deals with the struggles faced by rock and pop music to emerge in England in the early '60s, when the BBC only played one hour of that music per day. The solution: pirate radio stations, situated in the North Sea, playing rock music 24/7.
This movie was loosely based on Radio Caroline, a popular pirate radio ship with a similar history and style. It was executive producer, writer, and director Richard Curtis' intention to weave a fictional story around the many pirate stations of that era, rather than base the story on fact.
1480: Radio Pirates: Directed by Craig Newland. With Matt Whelan, Daniel Musgrove, Elliot Wrightson, Belinda Crawley. It's 1965 and rock music is shaking up the world but not in New Zealand.
DJ's Him and Her, from their live Pirate Radio USA Studio, take you on a rock -n-roll journey inside rogue radio stations across the country to see why Americans defy Federal Law to free the radio airwaves.
With Cohen Holloway, Ryan O'Kane, Ben Van Lier, Benedict Wall. Radio Hauraki, New Zealand's pirate radio station, operated in international waters from 1966-70, enduring storms, shipwrecks, financial woes, bureaucratic harassment and personal tragedy.
