Twenty years ago, "Captain Phillips" might have been a very different movie. The true story of shipping vessel captain Richard Phillips, taken hostage in April 2009 by a crew of Somali pirates ...

In April 2009, four Somali pirates hijacked the cargo ship MV Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean and held its captain Richard Phillips ransom for $2 million. Instead, the U.S. Navy managed to ...

Captain Phillips is a Paul Greengrass directorial that revolves around the hijacking of a ship by the Somali pirates. Captain Richard Phillips takes charge and negotiates with the pirates who ...

And you thought your job stank. Back in 2009, Capt. Richard Phillips was going about his business piloting a cargo ship bound for Kenya when four armed Somali pirates boarded, taking Phillips and h… ...

Phillips is the guy whose cargo ship the Maersk Alabama was hijacked in 2009 off the ?Somali coast by pirates headed­ by a young man […] Skip to content All Sections ...

Phillips has been back to sea half a dozen times since. The sea captain's life is his "normal," as he puts it, where he is most comfortable. Aboard ship, "I'm treated the same, which I like," he says.

The container ship Maersk Alabama has seen a lot of drama. It was attacked in 2009 by four armed Somali pirates, who took the ship’s captain, Richard Phillips, hostage on a lifeboat.

Greengrass does something very similar in "Captain Phillips," his new fact-based film. It recounts the well-publicized raid by a handful of Somali pirates of a U.S. cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama ...

Richard Phillips, the American cargo ship captain who risked his life to save his crew in a standoff with Somali pirates, returned home to Vermont on Friday and said the true heroes were the ...

We were greeted crisply by the ship’s captain – a movie star-handsome young Frenchman dressed in pressed whites. He was a gallic, serious seaman who moved with alacrity having no time to waste ...

The ship's crew can only feebly fend off the marauders by spraying water hoses. Piloting a cargo ship from Oman to Kenya, Phillips is a veteran sailor and no-nonsense Vermonter, big on following ...

“Captain Phillips,” the true story of Richard Phillips’ abduction by pirates off the coast of East Africa, ... Filming on a gargantuan cargo ship and a claustrophobic rescue craft, ...