Paul Greengrass · 2013 · sea

Paul Greengrass's 2013 thriller, from the real 2009 hijacking. Captain Richard Phillips takes the container ship Maersk Alabama out of Salalah, Oman, bound around the Horn of Africa for Kenya - straight through pirate waters. When four armed Somalis board far out in the Indian Ocean, Phillips trades himself for his crew, and a drifting lifeboat becomes the stage for a days-long standoff with the U.S. Navy.

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   Salalah

   The Maersk Alabama sails from the Omani port bound for Mombasa, its captain uneasily aware that the shortest route to Kenya runs straight through the most pirate-infested water on Earth.

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   The Somali Basin

   Hundreds of miles off the Somali coast, a skiff of four armed pirates runs the ship down and boards. Phillips hides his crew and offers himself, and the pirates take him into the covered lifeboat.

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   Off Eyl

   The lifeboat drifts toward the Somali shore with Phillips captive inside, shadowed by the destroyer USS Bainbridge - a days-long siege that ends in a single coordinated volley from Navy SEAL snipers.