Fact-based drama about the mutiny on board HMS Bounty against Commanding Lieutenant William Bligh. As naval discipline breaks down while docked in Tahiti, the commander resorts to harsh measures to keep the crew in line. However, his seamen respond to his brutality with insurrection, and Bligh and his loyalists are cast adrift in a lifeboat, while the mutineers go in search of a haven safe from retribution. With Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins and Laurence Olivier