Captain Phillips is a movie about a true incident. It’s about the horrific pirate attack on the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship. The story is about how the captain of the ...

Tom Hanks stars in Columbia Pictures' "Captain Phillips." The most shocking moment in Captain Phillips, which re-creates the ordeal of a freighter captain kidnapped by Somali pirates, comes in the ...

While Captain Phillips hit Netflix on July 1, 2025, this isn’t the first time the biographical drama has come to the streaming service. Captain Phillips first debuted on Netflix nine years after its ...