A Captain at Fifteen (1945)

イギリスに住む発明家のフィリアス・フォッグは、過激な実験に執事を無理矢理協力させることもしばしば。そんな彼に愛想を尽かし、執事はとうとう出て行ってしまってフォッグが困り果てていたところ、屋敷の庭に一人の男が落ちてきた。彼の名はラウ・シン。中国にある故郷の村から秘宝を盗み出した盗賊を追ってイギリスにやってきた彼は、盗賊から秘宝を奪い返し、町中を逃げ回っていたのだった。ラウはとっさに「パスパルトゥー」という偽名を名乗り、フォッグの家の執事兼実験台として雇われることになった。

時は1872年、まだ飛行機も出現していない時代。イギリスはロンドンの社交クラブで、英国紳士フォッグ氏はひょんなことから“８０日間あれば世界一周できる”という賭けにのり、なんと２万ポンドという大金を賭け、自ら大冒険に出ることになる。さっそくフォッグ氏はパスパルトゥーを従者に従えロンドンを出発する。マルセイユへ向かう途中、汽車が止まってしまい気球を調達して先を急ぐ。ところが気球は風に流されてスペインへ。そして、パスパルトゥーはそこで、闘牛をするハメになってしまう。

１８６０年代、世界各地の海で、謎の怪物による船舶の沈没事故が相次いで発生。海洋学者のアロナックス教授らはアメリカ政府から派遣され、船で調査に乗り出す。ある夜、彼らの乗った船は謎の物体と衝突。それは、権力と戦争を憎む天才科学者ネモ船長率いる万能潜水艦ノーチラス号だった。教授たちは船長に招かれ、海底へと旅に出る。

時は南北戦争のさなか、気球にのって戦場から脱出した囚人たちは風に流され見知らぬ島にたどり着く。だがそこは通常の何十倍もある大きさの生物が跋扈していた。後から漂着した母娘を加えてサバイバル生活が始まるが、島にはもう一人奇妙な人物が住んでいることが判明する。それはあの伝説のネモ船長だった……。

A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.

Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father. This Disney film was based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.

When her archaeologist father disappears on an expedition, Wanda sets out to look for him. What she finds is a secret underground world, where no one believes in life on the surface and where she and her father are taken for spies.

Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.

After the death of his wife and his son, Michael, an intrepid Russian imperial army officer, lost the joy of living. His family has been the victim of an attack by the commander Ogareff Tartar troops, operating in the eastern DRC. When Tsar commissioned him to cross the dangerous mission across Siberia to restore communications troops sabotaged by Ogareff, the young officer does not hesitate to accept.

Survivors of a sinking ship are rescued by Captain Nemo and his submarine crew. They are taken to an underwater city where they may spend the rest of their lives.

The larger-than-life Jules Verne adventure about reclusive genius Captain Nemo, his magnificent submarine, The Nautilus, and the perilous voyage he makes with a group of captive adventurers, one of which is a brave young woman disguised as a man.

1865, The American Civil War: Five POW manage to escape by balloon from Fort Richmond. Caught in a storm and with the balloon damaged they find themselves 'shipwrecked' on a volcanic desert island somewhere in the Pacific. Just before crash landing their leader, the brilliant engineer Cyrus Smith falls to his apparent death in the raging waters, but later turns up completely unharmed and with no memory of how he was saved. His fellow castaways are: the famous journalist Gedeon Spilett, the salty sailor Bonaventure Pencroff, the orphaned boy Harbert Brown and the black servant of Smith, Nab. The dog Top also joined them in the escape.

Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to power rockets, and to show its potential he plans to send a projectile to the moon. Joining him for the trip are his assistant Ben Sharpe, Barbicane's arch-rival Stuyvesant Nicholl, and Nicholl's daughter Virginia. Nicholl believes that Power X goes against the will of God and sabotages the projectile so that they cannot return to earth, setting up a suspenseful finale as they battle to repair the projectile.

An adventurous lion named Willy Fog stands in for Phileas Fogg in this animated adaptation of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days. At the heart of the story, of course, is a bet that Willy can make it around the globe in the allotted time. But there are three others hot on his heels: a pair of Scotland Yard detectives who believe him to be a bank robber and a thug who's been hired to slow him down.

This made-for-TV film version uses the title and general premise of Jules Verne's novel, but had its heroes carry out the journey in an earth-penetrating machine. A television series was supposed to follow, but was never produced. Cast includes John Neville, F. Murray Abraham and Kim Miyori.

Based on Verne's book The Mysterious Island, five POWs escape from a camp in a balloon during the Civil War and crash-land on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. Trying to settle with their lives they find someone is helping them.

In 1881 Algeria, an American soldier and a French aristocrat are about to have a duel over a woman when a comet hurtling past the Earth draws them into its gravitational pull. The men find themselves transported to the moon, where they discover a prehistoric civilization inhabited by reptiles and humans.

It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and finally lands on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants. Also landing, in a better aircraft, is Rulu, a visitor from Mercury. She seeks a radio-active material that will enable her to manufacture an explosive that will destroy the world or, at least, the portion known as Earth in this 15 Chapter Serial from the 1950s.

The immortal story of Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout.

A classic movie based on a famous "Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen" novel by Jules Verne.