We have Anthony Hopkins, Daniel Day-Lewis, Laurence Olivier, Mel Gibson, and Liam Neeson all in the same movie?? Looking back across 40 years, that's one hell of a cast.

It's crazy to think that most of the modern people living on Pitcairn island are descendants of the mutineers on the bounty. It really brings the history to life.

The fact Bligh managed to sail almost 4,000 miles on a rowboat, in one of the most desolate naval journeys and without any charts deserves a movie in its own right.

A little fun fact about Bligh's ability to map the islands he was visiting: The map he made of Hawaii while traveling with Captain Cook was still in use in the 1960s. It was that accurate. Imagine having the eye of a satelite in times of wooden ships oO

Interesting fact, the Bounty replica used in the 1962 film was lost in 2012 during hurricane Sandy.  14 people were saved, by others weren't so lucky.  Very sad end to the replica of such a ship.

A couple of corrections on the RN:
1) The vast majority of the Navy's captains were commoners, often of quite modest backgrounds. This was even more the case with midshipmen. Aristocrats preferred the army, where they could purchase commissions, leave was freely available, and there was no hard service required except in wartime.
2) In 1787 there may have been a few pressed men, but not many.  With the end of the American war in 1784, the Treasury closed the purse-strings and the Admiralty, as usual, placed the majority of its ships "in ordinary" and paid off (discharged) their crews.  There was a surplus of seamen, and no need to press any.

Fun Fact: in the 1935 version of Mutiny on the Bounty, Charles Laughton had to lose 55 pounds in order to fit into his costume as William Bligh, which used Bligh's actual measurements at the time,  and Clark Gable had to shave off his lucky mustache for the sake of historical accuracy because at the time facial hair was not allowed in the British Navy.

History Buffs casually returning after 2 months feels like a holiday event, I respect the quality over quantity content

Bligh's successful passage of the Pacific Ocean on the seven meter long Bounty's launch, with 18 men of his crew on board, is considered as one of the greatest navigational feats of all time.  In terms of his ability as a sailor and navigator, Captain Bligh was without a doubt a genius.

Man, being forced to dance by your boss...When I worked retail in a mall, I had a boss who once tried to make us dance in front of the store to attract customers. All I can say is I understand why they wanted to mutiny.

A good point Caroline Alexander makes is about the financial situation of the gentry of the ship (there were quite a few acting as ab seamen). Almost all were from declining families, including Fletcher, so they didn't have much to come back to.

Fun fact. One of the British ships to find the last mutineers on Pitcairn island was the HMS Briton. On it was a young Francis Crozier  who would later go on to be second in command of the Franklin expedition to find the northwest passage. Small world

William Bligh as a new Captain commanded the HMS Glatton at the Battle of Copenhagen under Lord Nelson, not Trafalgar.  Bligh made a key decision that led to Nelson's Victory at Copenhagen.

Ive always found it fascinating that Blythe actually sailed that small boat to a Dutch post over 1000 miles away with only a few lost men. Im  not a navy man,but that seems to b impressive.

Hopkins' portrayal of Bligh was unforgettable.

A postscript to add on Bligh’s later career was his time as Governor of New South Wales, where he tried to clean up the fledgling colony and it resulted in the Rum Rebellion.

I enjoyed Caroline Alexander’s book, that was when I realized how young these guys were. In the movies Captain Bligh was played by middle aged men when in real life he was in his early thirties and Fletcher was barely out of his teens.

The performances in this film are so dang crisp. Anthony Hopkins knocks it out of the park with that single teardrop in the scene where the court declares him innocent.

4:00 "He was still a lieutenant" This remind me of the US Wilkes Expedition in the 1840s where Lt. Charles Wilkes tried to become captain before his fleet sailed. He never got the promotion and, in many views, became draconic during the multiple years ago expedition. When the surviving ships returned to the US, he and his officers put court martials against each other.  Sea of Glory by Nathanial Philbrick talks about forgotten expedition.

I kind like how GIbson does the "going crazy hand to the forehead thing" he'd later do in the Lethal Weapon movies.