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A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates. The adventures of a professional lumber salvager and his friends in Gibsons, British Columbia. Jack Holborn is year-old orphan in the 's that wants to get a job on a sailship to avoid foster homes. He is hired by Captain Sharingham, and they set sail. Jack was found on the Approved 87 min Drama, Western. In Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon entertainer Cherry Malotte, fight to save their gold claim from crooked commissioner Alexander McNamara.

Passed min Action, Adventure, Drama. Florida ship salvager, Loxi, falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor, and eventually leads to tragedy. Approved 86 min Action, Adventure, Drama. In the early 's the Spanish regiments are celebrating their victory over the French Legions of Bonaparte.

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Yellowbeard, a pirate's pirate, is allowed to escape from prison to lead the authorities to his treasure. Najee convinces Bilal and Elmi that Phillips must be killed. The pirates tie up and blindfold Phillips, leaving him to say his final goodbyes. As the pirates prepare to shoot Phillips, Bainbridge ' s crew stops the tow, causing Bilal and Najee to lose balance. This gives the marksmen three clear shots and they simultaneously kill all three pirates. Muse is arrested and taken into custody for piracy. Phillips is rescued from the lifeboat and treated.

Although in shock and disoriented, he thanks the rescue team for saving his life. Sony Pictures optioned the film rights shortly after the publication of Richard Phillips' memoir A Captain's Duty in In March , actor Tom Hanks attached himself to the project after reading a draft of the screenplay by Billy Ray. Ali were chosen from among more than participants at a casting call at the Brian Coyle Community Center in Cedar-Riverside , Minneapolis.

The four actors were selected, according to search casting director Debbie DeLisi, because they were "the chosen ones, that anointed group that stuck out. Phillips hostage so that they could accurately re-create the boat and interiors for the set. Navy SEALs , both also on display at the museum. Principal photography for Captain Phillips began on March 26, The film score to Captain Phillips was composed by Henry Jackman.

The film was praised for its direction, screenplay, production values, cinematography, and the performances of Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi. The website's critical consensus reads, "Smart, powerfully acted, and incredibly intense, Captain Phillips offers filmgoers a Hollywood biopic done right — and offers Tom Hanks a showcase for yet another brilliant performance.

Various American critics have named the film as one of the best of In a New York Post article, some of the crew members of the Maersk Alabama accused the film of being inaccurate in facts and the portrayal of Phillips, claiming that Phillips was not as heroic as the film depicts him. Mike Perry, the chief engineer of the Maersk Alabama , also asserted in a CNN interview that the film does not tell the true story. The film's director Paul Greengrass publicly stated that he "stands behind the authenticity of Captain Phillips ," despite complaints of inaccuracy with how the film portrays the events surrounding the hijacking, and "at the end of the day, it is easy to make anonymous accusations against a film [ Phillips' first mate Shane Murphy stated in an interview with Vulture published on October 13, that he was satisfied with how the movie portrayed both Phillips and him, and stated that he was only disappointed that the film didn't show footage of the crews' families at home or the president's comments on the hijacking.

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European mariners greatly feared Bugi pirates.

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Newspapers have reported Bugis who invaded atolls, burning the villages an make off with an entire year's worth of their cash crop, copa oil-bearing coconut husks. The Bugis are the predominate ethnic group in southern the southern peninsula of Sulawesi. They have traveled widely and colonized numerous coastal areas and have a long association with piracy. The Bugis are famous for their Pinisi schooners which they have used for centuries to travel as far south as the Australian coast where they left behind drawings of ships and words that have been integrated in the Aboriginal language of North Australia.

Bugis have traditionally lived on coast and the plains are culturally similar to the Makassarese, who dominate the southern tip of peninsula where the Bugis live. The Bugis have their own language. Their name is derived from a village. Bugis are believed to number around 4 million, with maybe three fourths of them living in Sulawesi. The Bugis were notorious mercenaries in the colonial period and their presence often turned the tide in the favor of the Dutch in places like the Riau Archipelago and East Kalimantan. Bugis were also involved in the Indonesia independence movement and thus still remain influential today.

The Indonesia government has traditionally kept up a string military presence in Bugi areas to keep from rebelling and fighting one another. Before the arrival of the Dutch in Indonesia Bugi mercenaries attained high positions in Aceh, Malaysia , the Riau Archipelago and Thailand and established large settlements in eastern Sumatra.

Indonesia was the global leader in piracy with 25 incidents out of 66 worldwide in the first quarter of , according to the Piracy Reporting Centre. Somalia and the Gulf? For one, he says, the pirates have shifted away from their traditional bases in the Malacca Strait between Indonesia and Malaysia.

The number of attempted and actual acts of piracy in Indonesia has jumped seven-fold between and , years, bucking a global downward trend in the number of sea piracy attacks. In the number of recorded attacks reached , a 40 percent drop from the time Somali piracy peaked in , the AGCS report said, citing data from the International Maritime Bureau. The picture is altogether different, however, in Indonesia, which accounted for of those attacks, a significant increase from the 15 incidents reported there in In the early s, the number of pirate attacks in Somali waters plummeted 95 percent to a meager seven incidents in ; none were successful.

Attacks and attempted attacks in the waters of Indonesia — which controls much of the Malacca Strait and its environs — totaled in The German insurance firm Allianz is now sounding a warning: NATO- and EU-backed naval patrols, ships hiring on-board riflemen and, perhaps most importantly, a new Somali government working to stabilize its lawless coast. Another base is emerging around the island of Batam and its nearby neighbor Belakang Island, which is close to Singapore and has become a center for low-cost manufacturing for exports via Singapore.

Some of these crime bosses are former pirates or have decided to add piracy to their other illegal activities, such as gambling, drugs and prostitution. This trend has created a pool of disenfranchised who are choice targets for recruitment into piracy. Even local fishermen have become potential recruits. The root of the problem is not social but economic, he notes, as more coherent and sustainable development in areas that are prone to pirate recruitment might go a long way toward alleviating the piracy problem. In the Malacca Strait, pirates like to get in and get out.

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The attackers tied up the crew and the captain.