Nearly two decades after Capt. Rich Phillips endured a near-death ordeal at the hands of Somali pirates off the East African ...

Never give up, work with your team and, if you have a chance, learn to operate an AK-47 before you get kidnapped on the high seas by gun-toting pirates. That was the lesson from the talk Captain ...

The most shocking moment in Captain Phillips, which re-creates the ordeal of a freighter captain kidnapped by Somali pirates, comes in the very first shot: an exterior of Phillips’ Vermont home, for ...