I det victorianske England hersker der stor frygt for, at den djævelske 'Fantomet' er ved at starte en verdenskrig. For at imødegå truslen samler Dronning Victoria en flok særdeles ekstraordinære herrer under ledelse af Allan Quartermain. Til disse hører Kaptajn Nemo, Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, agenten Sawyer, vampyren Harker, den usynlige Skinner og den uovervindelige Dorian Gray.
I sidste halvdel af 1800-tallet lever sømændene en risikofyldt tilværelse. Mange fartøjer forsvinder, og historier om en gigantisk narhval, der uden nåde angriber og sænker skibene, begynder at florere. En professor sætter sig for at løse mysteriet om uhyret, og sammen med en frygtløs hvalfanger drager han til søs.
Kaptajn Cyrus Harding (Michael Craig) anfører tre nordstatssoldater i en modig og desperat flugt fra et sydstatsfængsel i en luftballon. En voldsom storm blæser luftballonen ud over havet mod en fjern sydhavsø, hvor den lille gruppe driver i land. Senere får de selskab af to kvinder fra et synkende skib, og sammen oplever de skibbrudne et utroligt eventyr med hære af enorme dyr. De får hjælp i deres kamp for at overleve af den mystiske Kaptajn Nemo, der residerer i undervandsbåden Nautilus, hvor han i et forsøg på at skaffe flere fødevarer til verden, har skabt de mærkeligste dyr. Men da den store vulkan bryder ud og truer med at udslette dem alle, kan selv Nemo så redde dem?
Kom med om bord på Nautilus og sejl med ud på et mystisk men tryllebindende undervandseventyr! Kirk Douglas, Paul Lukas og Peter Lorre ses i hovedrollerne som de overlevende fra et skibsforlis. De holdes fanget af den ondsindede Kaptajn Nemo, der brillant spilles af James Mason. På grænsen mellem at være et geni og fuldstændig skør, har Nemo besluttet sig for et livsfarligt krydstogt på de syv verdenshave. Men kan fangerne forhindre ham i hans onde planer, før han tilintetgør verden? Disneys filmatisering af Jules Vernes betagende mesterværk, vandt en Oscar(R) i 1954 for "Best Special Effects and Color Art Direction".
During the American Civil War, five prisoners of war manage to escape in a balloon. They are driven far across the sea to an unknown island, far from civilization. The legendary captain Nemo (world star Omar Sharif), who is trapped in a huge underground cave with his submarine Nautilus, watches the group. When the stranded people are discovered by pirates, Nemo helps them with a host of his super technology...
New England, 1886: a creature of unknown origin is destroying ships at sea. It is the job of Professor Pierre Aronnax, a marine expert, and Ned Land, the iron willed sailor, to learn the truth about the monster roaming the seas. In their search, they come across the sophisticated submarine Nautilus, secretly cruising under the ocean, and its charismatic captain Nemo.
During the Civil War five survivors escape from a prison camp in Richmond, Virginia by hot air balloon and find themselves on an uncharted island in the Pacific. Far from any kind of known civilization, the island is inhabited with carnivorous monsters, bloodthirsty pirates, and mad genius Captain Nemo, who lives on the island for his own secretive ends.
The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo was a series of five-minute cartoons produced in Canada in the mid-1970s. They told the story of Captain Mark Nemo and his young assistants, Christine and Robbie, in their nuclear-powered submarine, the Nautilus.
A Soviet three-part television miniseries directed by Vasily Levin loosely based on the novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
The Return of Captain Nemo was a 1978 science fiction TV movie directed by Alex March and Paul Stader, and loosely based on characters and settings from Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It was written by six writers including Robert Bloch. During naval exercises in 1978 Captain Nemo is found in suspended animation aboard his submarine Nautilus beneath the Pacific Ocean. Revived by members of a modern day US Government agency, Nemo is persuaded to rescue United States interests and in so doing battle Professor Cunningham, a typical mad scientist played by Burgess Meredith. The film was a co-production between Irwin Allen Productions and Warner Bros. Television. It was distributed by CBS Television but was also released theatrically as The Amazing Captain Nemo.
