Jan Janszoon, Piraat van de wereld (2024)

Season 1

Documentary series about the life of the 17th century pirate Jan Janszoon aka Mourad Raïs.

Released Feb. 9, 2024 Episode 50 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: imdb.tv-mini-series, imdb.six-word-title, imdb.reenactment, mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series

Production Companies: NTR

Network: NTR

Country: Netherlands
Languages: English, Spanish, Icelandic, Dutch, French, Arabic

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8.6

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Marcel Goedhart
Director

Abdelkader Benali
Presentator

Aus Greidanus
Jan Janszoon

Gaite Jansen
Liesbeth

Iliass Ojja
Anthony

S1E1 - Hate against spain

In 1573, Haarlem, birthplace of Jan Janszoon, was destroyed by the Spanish. It is here where his dislike of the Catholic Spaniards begins. As a privateer he targets Spanish ships, but after a truce with the Spanish he loses his job, ends up in North Africa and becomes a pirate. He raids Dutch ships and sells Christian slaves on the Algiers slave market. He converts to Islam and takes a new name: Mourad Raïs. Narrator Abelkader Benali has long been fascinated by Jan Janszoon: 'I came to the Netherlands from Morocco with my father and mother, he took the opposite route.'

Feb. 9, 2024, midnight