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1. The Bounty (1984)
PG | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox
Votes: 30,527 | Gross: $8.60M
2. Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Not Rated | 178 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.
Directors: Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed, George Seaton | Stars: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith
Votes: 17,902 | Gross: $13.68M
3. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Passed | 132 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin
Votes: 24,872
4. Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
Approved | 93 min | Action, Drama, War
A U.S. sub commander, obsessed with sinking a certain Japanese ship, butts heads with his first officer and crew.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Brad Dexter
Votes: 13,134
5. Hornblower: Mutiny (2001 TV Movie)
98 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but obviously mentally unstable captain and eventually must mutiny.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, David Warner, Nicholas Jones
Votes: 4,476
6. Horatio Hornblower: Retribution (2001 TV Movie)
98 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, David Warner, Nicholas Jones
Votes: 3,909
7. In the Wake of the Bounty (1933)
66 min | Action, Drama
A former member of the crew of the HMS Bounty recounts the story of the mutiny aboard ship.
Director: Charles Chauvel | Stars: Arthur Greenaway, Mayne Lynton, Errol Flynn, Victor Gouriet
Votes: 366
8. Der Seewolf (1971)
93 min | Adventure, Drama
The writer Humphrey van Weyden gets overboard in 1906 in a shipwreck in the fog in the Bay of San Francisco and is rescued by a seal catcher, the schooner Ghost under the brutal Captain Wolf Larsen.
Stars: Edward Meeks, Raimund Harmstorf, Emmerich Schäffer, Peter Kock
Votes: 733
9. Der Seewolf (2008 TV Movie)
179 min | Adventure, Drama
The young humanist Humphrey van Weyden was traveling from San Francisco to the Pacific Ocean ; after a shipwreck he is saved by the seal-hunting boat called "Ghost".The captain Wolf Larssen... See full summary »
Director: Christoph Schrewe | Stars: Thomas Kretschmann, Florian Stetter, Petra Schmidt-Schaller, Henning Baum
Votes: 216
10. The Mutiny of the Bounty (1916)
55 min | Drama, Thriller
A disgruntled crew mutinies against their captain.
Director: Raymond Longford | Stars: George Cross, John Storm, D.L. Dalziel, Wilton Power
Votes: 35
11. Der Untergang der Pamir (2006 TV Movie)
180 min | Action, Drama
The Story of the German Sail-School Ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.
Director: Kaspar Heidelbach | Stars: Klaus J. Behrendt, Miroslav Milanovic Miki, Jan Josef Liefers, Dietmar Bär
Votes: 188
12. Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space (1965)
Unrated | 65 min | Sci-Fi
A spaceship crewman plots a mutiny against the stern leader taking a group of people to settle on a new planet from Earth.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Bill Williams, Kathleen Breck, John Cairney, Donald Churchill
Votes: 268
13.
Highlander (1992–1998)
Episode:
Reunion
(1995)
TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Kenny, the Immortal in a child's body, has returned. He runs to Anne for help when Immortal Terence Kincaid is after him, and she calls Duncan. In flashback to 1778 South Pacific, Kincaid ... See full summary »
Director: Dennis Berry | Stars: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Jim Byrnes, Myles Ferguson
Votes: 162