Roger Donaldson · 1984 · sea

Roger Donaldson's 1984 film of the famous mutiny. In 1787 HMS Bounty sails from England around the world to Tahiti to collect breadfruit, and the long idyll in the islands loosens the crew's discipline against Captain Bligh's harsh command. Fletcher Christian's mutiny casts Bligh and his loyalists adrift, and their astonishing 3,600-mile open-boat voyage to Timor becomes one of the great feats of seamanship.

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   Portsmouth

   The English port from which HMS Bounty sails under the exacting Lieutenant Bligh on a long voyage to the far Pacific to collect breadfruit for the West Indies.

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   Tahiti

   The Pacific island paradise where the crew spends five months collecting breadfruit and falling under the spell of the islanders, sowing the discontent that will erupt into mutiny.

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   The mutiny

   The open sea near Tonga where Fletcher Christian seizes the ship and casts Bligh and eighteen loyal men adrift in a small launch with scant food and no chart.

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   Timor

   The Dutch East Indies outpost of Coupang that Bligh reaches after navigating an open boat 3,600 miles across the Pacific - a triumph of seamanship that shames the mutiny.