To the Ends of the Earth
Who Killed Fletcher Christian?
S3 • E5 Mar 21, 1999
Archaeologists are trying to log the history of the settlement on remote Pitcairn island, where Christian and fellow mutineers from HMS Bounty fled with Polynesian comrades to found a new Eden. Their excavations, and the oral tradition of the settlers' direct descendants, tell how that early community, riven with conflicts over race and property, descended into murderous savagery before finding redemption.