The Voyage of Bounty's Child

1984
1h 34m

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Released in the same year as the Bounty starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins, this documentary continues to clear the name of the much-maligned Captain Bligh, overthrown by a mutiny in 17... Read allReleased in the same year as the Bounty starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins, this documentary continues to clear the name of the much-maligned Captain Bligh, overthrown by a mutiny in 1789. Captain R. W. Bligh-Ware, several generations removed from his famous ancestor, put to... Read allReleased in the same year as the Bounty starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins, this documentary continues to clear the name of the much-maligned Captain Bligh, overthrown by a mutiny in 1789. Captain R. W. Bligh-Ware, several generations removed from his famous ancestor, put together a crew of eight and sailed from Tonga to Fiji, to Vanuatu, to the Great Barrier Ree... Read all

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An early reality show on film

I liked this a lot.

Its premise is to duplicate the many thousand mile voyage of Captain Bligh and several crew after he was kicked off his ship the Bounty.

With remarkably few resources he held his crew and the boat together.

With this recreation, the boat is a careful replica built in New Zealand, and they managed to dig up (not literally I hope) a distant relative of Bligh to be Captain.

We have the term "A Captain Bligh" for someone who is Autocratic and downplays the skills of others. And the relative does show this tendency.

As this is before the idea of "reality shows" the emotions here are quite real as the crew grumbles and starts hating every moment.

So a really interesting study of human emotion. Against this is the difficulty of making an interesting documentary sitting on a small boat in the middle of the Pacific.