James Cameron's Titanic featured numerous portrayals of real-life passengers and crew members who traveled on the ill-fated ocean liner in 1912. Although the movie's main characters Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) and Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) derive from fiction, the 1998 Best Picture winner emphasizes historical accuracy in its depiction of the events leading up to the "unsinkable Captain Phillips: Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman. The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. Paul Greengrass, the director of “Captain Phillips,” cast Hanks as a different kind of captain in a more classically crowd-pleasing key in the 2020 western “News of the World.” .

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