Arrrr! I loved Pirates of the Carribian, and have always loved pirates since I was a kid!
Recently, I was reading a book on Drake’s round-the-world voyage, and came across a real-life scene which could have been lifted from PotC:
What happened was, Drake was preparing to pass through the straights of Magellen on his piratical voyage, when he was confronted with a potential mutiny. He landed on an island and executed a mutineer. By total coincidence, his crew found a gallows which had been erected in the very same spot by Magellen, decades before, to hang a mutineer in his crew. Under the gallows was the rotting skeleton.
So the crew named the island “The Island of Blood”, took down the gallows - and carved drinking mugs out of the wood! The two mutineers were buried in a common grave.
[On that voyage, Drake took 26 tons of treasure.]
Arrrr! How’s that for a hollywood scene? 
I’ve always found it odd that if you ask a person to name ten pirates (real or fictional), Captain Kidd will likely be in the top five, but the Dread Pirate Roberts will likely not make the list at all.
Captain Kidd was quite possibly the least competent pirate of all time, and only looted a couple of ships in his whole career… and they turned out to be ships he wasn’t supposed to loot, which is what got him hanged.
The Dread Pirate Roberts is best known from “The Princess Bride,” although he’s mentioned in “Pirates Of The Caribbean” as one of the authors of the Pirates’ Code. He was a real guy, and for three years, he was THE Pirate Of The Caribbean, durn near bringing shipping to a standstill, singlehanded! He was a wickedly good navigator, and a truly evil tactician and strategist, famous for successfully attacking and escaping from fleets far larger than his own. He was wonderfully successful…
…until he engaged a force specifically sent out to hunt him. And even then, he might well have kicked their butts if he hadn’t accidentally got killed in the first exchange of fire. Once he was dead, his men apparently lost heart.
So now he’s forgotten, while Captain Kidd, a bungler from the beginning, is one of the Classic Pirates Of All Time…
That’s Hollywood for you.
Captain Kidd was framed!
Apparently, when he was being tried for piracy, his letters of marque - which may have proved his innocence - were deliberately “lost”.
I want to know more about Dread Pirate Roberts. 
Another great pirate scene: real-life female pirate Anne Bonny (?) and her lover, Calico Jack, were taken by the Royal Navy. In the fight, Anne fought bravely, but Jack ran below - and at the trial, Anne was heard to remark to him: “If you had fought like a man, you need not have hanged like a dog”.