Captains Courageous is a 1977 American television film based on the novel Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling. It was produced by Norman Rosemont, who made a number of television films based on classic novels. It was shot off the coast of Maine with a budget of $1.5 million. Rosemont had to pay $25,000 to the Kipling estate. Although the work was in the public domain in the US it was still in copyright in other territories.