Sentence examples for based on the hijacking from inspiring English sources

Based on the hijacking of one of the planes on 9/11, it wasn't easy to make and it's certainly not easy to watch.

I remember the incident this film is based on: the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama, an American cargo ship, in 2009.

In early 2012, ENO will be staging a new production of John Adams 'The Death of Klinghoffer', based on the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship 'Achille Lauro' in 1985.

First staged in 1991, The Death of Klinghoffer is based on the hijacking of an Italian cruise ship in October 1985.

The English National Opera (ENO) is to stage an opera based on the 1985 hijacking of cruise liner the Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists.

Based on the 1994 hijacking of a French plane in Algiers by four Islamic terrorists, this propulsive thriller, a symphony of stomping boots and spraying bullets, kicks subtlety to the curb and humanity to the margins.

This was a protest against the Metropolitan Opera's new production of The Death of Klinghoffer, John Adams's opera based on the 1985 hijacking of an Italian cruise ship by the Palestine Liberation Front and the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound passenger.

Captain Phillips is much more complex than your average action film in that it's based on the true story of a 2009 hijacking of a US container ship by Somali pirates.

Hanks is receiving Oscar buzz for his role in Captain Phillips, which is based on the true story of the 2009 hijacking of the US container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates.

Based on the true story of the 2009 hijacking of the US container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates, the film focuses on the relationship between the Alabama's commanding officer, Captain Richard Phillips (Hanks) and the Somali pirate captain, Muse Abdii), who takes him hostage.

This unbearably tense hijack thriller is based on the true story from 2009 about a Somali pirate attack on an American container ship, and watching it, I succumbed more or less immediately to an attack of "Greengrass cotton-mouth": the two-hour anxiety attack that only a movie by Paul Greengrass can provoke.