The Pirate Tapes
MovieTitle | The Pirate Tapes |
User score | 6 |
Release date | Jul 11, 2011 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Rock Baijnauth |
Production country | Somalia, Canada |
Production companies | HBO, HBO Documentary Films, Telesto |
Run time | 72 min. |
Exposing piracy in Somalia from the inside out, The Pirates Tapes follows Mohamed Ashareh, a young Somali-Canadian, as he travels to Somalia in hopes of joining an active pirate cell. Armed only with a hidden camera, Mohamed works his way into a cell run by a ruthless warlord, Jama Donyal, and is assigned to his first hijacking mission. When things take an unexpected turn, Mohamed finds himself on the run from the law with the danger of execution looming.