Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

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• Movie Goof (anachronisms): At least twice during the movie, the left side of the ship is referred to as "port" (as in, "drop the port anchor"). "Larboard" was used until the 19th century when referring to the ship, and "port" was only for directions. "Hard a-port" or "turn to port" would have been used, but nothing referring to the port side of the ship until the 1800s.
• Movie Goof (errors in geography): When Jack first sails into Port Royal, there is a shot from behind Jack, looking toward the front of the boat, and there is land clearly visible across most of the field of vision. After Jack jumps down, you see him (from a side shot) begin walking toward the back of the boat. The next shot is again looking towards the boat's front from the stern (which cannot be disputed because Jack is completing the strides from the previous shot) and there is no land visible at all.
• Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): SPOILER: At the end of the film Jack is about to be executed. The court crier reads aloud the charges against Jack, and then concludes that he is to be "hung" by the neck until dead. Proper English dictates that he would be "hanged" by the neck until dead.
• The island of Tortuga is loosely based on Little Cayman, the smallest of the Cayman Islands in the Carribean, which was initially used as a pirate base in the 17th century. The Cayman Islands were originally named Las Tortugas by Columbus, who first sighted them in 1503.