"Recommend Some Movies- Age of Sail" Topic

So my wife and I watched Master and Commander (one of my personal favorites) with my youngest son and he loved it. We then tore through the Hornblower BBC series (a fave for me and the wife) and he loved that as well and wants more.

I'm going to get him into the excellent Sharpes series as soon as I can find a set of DVDs that doesn't cost both arms and legs.

Can anyone recommend for us other Age of Sail movies so we can keep the fire kindled in him? He's 12 years old, so no Mel Gibson Bounty for him…

I'll probably get him into Age of Sail games soon (we have Age of Sail, but its pretty fiddly for him, though I picked up Ganesha's Galleys and Galleons and we'll probably give that a whirl- but I have a big Bolt Action game I'm planning first for our older son when he returns home for the holidays from University).

John Paul Jones starring Robert Stack

A little bit of an earlier period but "The Admiral" about the Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter.

Damn the Defiant

Hornblower the TV series

Captain Horatio Hornblower

Lady Hamilton

Billy Budd

Just an FYI. Every Sharpe episode has frontal female nudity. Might not want that for a child.

Captain Horatio Hornblower is my favorite

These are earlier than your period but fit the bill:

The Sea Hawk (Erroll Flynn)
Captain Blood (Flynn Again)
The Black Swan (Tyrone Power)

Ditto to everyone of the movies posted above by Toronto48. Each one a classic in it's own way, in my opinion. Thanks, John Miller

It's been awhile since I saw Sharpe and forgot about the nudity. Well, I'll save that one for the wife and me.

Thanks for the suggestions. I want to see the admiral, as I'm Dutch by ancestry and have always held a fascination dor the Anglo-Dutch Wars. my son's less into pirates, so anything more fighting men at sea is preferred.

Can watch Moby Dick that's a classic and age of sail but not military. If you like fantasy there are Sinbad movies but if your sticking with age of sail Napoleonic era there is the original mutniy on the bounty (not Mel Gibson)
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Captain Blood (1935 B/W)

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

The Sea Hawk (1940)

The Black Swan (1942)

Captain Kidd (1945)

Disney's Treasure Island (1950)

Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950)

Last of the Buccaneers (1950)

Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)

Against All Flags (1952)

Disney's Return to Treasure Island (1954)

The Buccaneer (1958)

H.M.S. Defiant (1962)

Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)

The Bounty (1984)

Pirates (1986)

Treasure Island (1990)

1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)

Cutthroat Island (1995)

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

Pirates of the Carribean – The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Pirates of the Carribean – Dead Man's Chest (2006)

Pirates of the Carribean – At World's End (2007)

Pirates of the Carribean – On Stranger Tides (2011)

De Ruyter (2015)

De Ruyter/Admiral is a great movie, but depending on the nature of your so, he may not get hooked having to read the subtitles.

Billy Budd.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions!

I've got John Paul Jones, Peck's Hornblower movie, Damn The Defiant and Billy Budd all on order.

I had never heard of the last one. I love Terence Stamp- Kneel before Budd! And with Peter Ustinov and a really young David McCallum to boot!

I'm holding off on the Pirate movies for now, and Admiral isn't out yet in the US to my knowledge, but I'll pick it up when I find it. My youngest isn't as much of a reader as my older son was, but I think he'll get into it just the same.

"Billy Budd" is marvelous--but only incidentally related to the Age of Sail. It's not about combat, it's about good and evil and the inherent tension between Law and Justice.
This is a Herman Melville story, and like "Moby Dick", is not a "fun movie."

That's not an indictment--this movie should be seen by any thinking person--but may be too slowly paced and "talky" for most 12 year-olds.

If the young man is ready for it, he needs to see it, but in a learning context, not just "movie night."

TVAG

It's actually about morality with homosexual overtones between ranks, but it is an excellent sea story and Peter Ustinov offsets Robert Ryan as a character actor.

Low tech but high tension make this a fine motion picture.

If your son is into music, "Billy Budd" was turned into an opera by Benjamin Britten.