20:23, Sun, Jul 6, 2025 Updated: 20:25, Sun, Jul 6, 2025 Tom Hanks has starred in more than 90 films, and now another one of his impressive performances had dropped on to streaming platform Netflix.

"A ruthless, ripped-from-the-headlines seafaring thriller with a vintage turn from Tom Hanks," noted Little White Lies, while Empire Magazine called it "emotionally complex" and "hugely intelligent".

Tom Hanks's Captain Phillips has premiered a new preview clip.. The thriller, based on the true story of Somali pirates hijacking the Maersk Alabama in 2009, is directed by The Bourne Ultimatum's ...

U.S. cargo ship captain Richard Phillips has been freed from captivity at the hands of Somali pirates who had held him hostage on a lifeboat after trying to seize his vessel, CNN reported on ...

U.S. Navy special forces shot dead three Somali pirates on a lifeboat off Somalia and freed American cargo ship captain Richard Phillips on Sunday in a dramatic end to a five-day standoff ...

April 6, 2010— -- When pirates attacked Capt. Richard Phillips' ship last April, he tried to fend them off by firing warning flares at them, popping up between bursts of fire from AK-47s to ...

Pirates vow revenge for the deaths of 3 pirates at the hands of the U.S. Navy. April 13, 2009 — -- The wife of Capt. Richard Phillips tearfully thanked the Navy crew that rescued her husband ...

We had pocket knives and knives and fire hoses to combat pirates, he said. He also repeated claims by the crew that Phillips ignored many warnings to keep the ship 600 miles off the Somali coast, ...

Away from the spotlight, the pirates have been striking regularly for years. As well as American ship captain Richard Phillips, they are now holding about 250 other hostages, including 92 ...

MOMBASA, Kenya, April 13 -- Gunmen fired mortars at a plane carrying a U.S. congressman Monday as he departed the Somali capital, and President Obama, speaking later in Washington, vowed to work ...

The rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips, the American sailor held hostage by Somali pirates, came to a dramatic and happy conclusion on Sunday night off the coast of Africa. However, the problem of ...