What movie is about the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in 200 years?

"Captain Phillips" is the movie about the first American cargo ship to be successfully hijacked in roughly 200 years. The 2013 film dramatizes the 2009 seizure of the U.S.-flagged cargo ship Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates and stars Tom Hanks as Captain Richard Phillips.

On April 8, 2009, four pirates attacked the ship in the Somali Basin while it was carrying food aid toward Kenya. The crew managed to prevent the pirates from taking control of the vessel, but Phillips was captured and taken hostage aboard a lifeboat. The standoff ended four days later when U.S. Navy SEAL snipers rescued him.

The film was adapted from Phillips's memoir, "A Captain's Duty," written with Stephan Talty. It is based on real events but is still a dramatization, so some scenes and character perspectives were shaped for storytelling. The historical incident is also described as the first successful pirate seizure of a ship registered under the U.S. flag since the early nineteenth century.