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Captain Phillips | Based on a True Story (2016x4)

Air date: Jan 31, 2016

Captain Phillips is a an inspirational story, that becomes totally uninspired when you learn the truth. This story seems like your typical Hollywood inaccuracy, but there’s some stuff that Sony did that makes this fairly reprehensible. ------------------------------------------------------------ more videos: good based on a true story movies: https://youtu.be/u8MtKb3vIfI what's wrong with based on a true story movies?: https://youtu.be/2u7xQtRKTfE ------------------------------------------------------------ references: http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/captain-phillips.php http://nypost.com/2013/10/13/crew-members-deny-captain-phillips-heroism/ http://newday.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/08/10128/ http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/10/11/captain_phillips_true_story_fact_and_fiction_in_tom_hanks_and_paul_greengrass.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/10/11/captain_phillips_true_story_of_somali_pirates_is_complicated.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Phillips_(film)#Historical_accuracy ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 contribute to my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian LET'S CONNECT: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ------------------------------------------------------------ wiki: Captain Phillips is a 2013 American biographical survival thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi. The film is inspired by the true story of the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking, an incident during which merchant mariner Captain Richard Phillips was taken hostage by pirates in the Indian Ocean led by Abduwali Muse. The screenplay by Billy Ray is based on the 2010 book A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty. Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti