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2017225 minPGdocumentary

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Indigenous Histories

Mutiny

2017225 minPGdocumentary

6.8/ 10(72 ratings)• TMDB

Nine men retrace Bligh's perilous 4,000-mile Pacific odyssey after mutiny.

Indigenous Histories

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Nine men retrace Bligh's perilous 4,000-mile Pacific odyssey after mutiny.

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Nine men recreate a voyage by William Bligh in 1789, when he and his loyal crewmen crossed 4,000 miles of the Pacific Ocean from Tonga to Timor after being cast adrift from HMS Bounty by mutinying seamen and left for dead.

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