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The Pirate Tapes (2011)

The Pirate Tapes is a documentary filmed by Somali-Canadian Mohamed Ashareh in Somalia and edited and produced by Palmira PDC in Canada. Ashareh lived with pirates in Somalia for months undercover during 2009, filming their activities with a small camera hanging around his neck. Some of the filming was done by a second cameraman. Ashareh was frequently in danger, and at one point they were both arrested and spent time in a Somali jail. The film has been heavily criticized for shortcomings attributed to Ashereh's lack of journalistic and filming experience, but has been extensively shown anyway because of its unusual perspective on the lives of the pirates. There has also been a dispute between Ashareh and Palmira PDC over the rights to the footage filmed by Ashereh.

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Release date: January 1, 2011