USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (also titled USS Indianapolis: Disaster in the Philippine Sea) is a 2016 American war disaster film directed by Mario Van Peebles and written by Cam Cannon and Richard Rionda Del Castro, based largely on the true story of the loss of the ship of the same name in the closing stages of World War II. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Tom Sizemore, Thomas Jane, Matt Lanter, Brian Presley, and Cody Walker. Principal photography began on June 19, 2015 in Mobile, Alabama.

Plot

In 1945, the ''Portland''-class heavy cruiser , commanded by Captain Charles B. McVay III, delivers parts of the atomic bomb that would later be used to bomb Hiroshima at the end of World War II. While crossing the Philippine Sea, on July 30 in 1945, the unescorted ship is torpedoed and sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) submarine I-58, taking 300 crewmen with it to the bottom of the Philippine Sea, and the rest climb out of the ship and were left stranded at sea for five days without food and water in shark-infested waters.