Pirates of Tripoli

Princess Karjan (Patricia Medina, Confidential Report) has lost her kingdom to the ruthless Malek (John Miljan, The Ghost Walks), barely escaping from her palace. She considers surrendering, but instead hires the famous pirate Edri-Al-Gadrian’s (Paul Henreid, Casablanca) to help her regain the throne. Malek destroys Edri-Al-Gadrian’s ships, but Karjan comes up with a plan to steal the royal jewels to buy new ships to continue the attack. Filled with sword fighting and romance, PIRATES OF TRIPOLI is a rousing, swashbuckling adventure. Newly remastered.

Princess Karjan promises pirate captain Edri-Al-Gardian a fabulous reward if he helps her regain her lost kingdom of Misurata from Malek. When the latter destroys Gardian's armada, Karjan and Gardian enter Misurata in disguise in order to get Karjan's hidden jewels to buy new ships.

The Barbary War - the first American war against Libya - was the first war waged by the United States outside national boundaries after gaining independence and unification of the country. The four Barbary States of North Africa - Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli - had plundered seaborne commerce for centuries. This was piracy on an extraordinary scale: they controlled all trading routes through the Barbary waters and North Africa: demanding ransom and booty for safe passage…

Learn the true story behind one of the most storied battles in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- Filmed on location in Morocco and aboard the USS Constitution.
- Interviews with leading scholars illuminate every aspect of the daring plan.
- The true story of the first battle fought on foreign soil by the U.S. Marines.