Watch a clip for the film "Captain Phillips." Tom Hanks plays Captain Richard Phillips, who, in real life, sacrificed himself to save his ship's crew during a Somali pirate hijacking in 2009.

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 ...

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