“Captain Phillips,” Tom Hanks’ latest film, provides a powerful account of the violent toll of piracy off the Horn of Africa.

As moviegoers will see in dramatic fashion, Captain Richard Phillips was rescued in 2009 after being held for days at sea by three Somali pirates who had forcibly boarded his cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama.

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