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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: every TV and movie adaptation

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1869) has been adapted into 2 TV series and 3 movies: Under the Seas (1907), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990), Nautilus (2024).

It is book 6 of the Voyages Extraordinaires series.

About Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a book by Jules Verne, first published in 1869 (original language: French). It is book 6 in the Voyages Extraordinaires series, which has 16 books on record. Genre: science fiction, nautical fiction, scientific romance. The first screen adaptation was Under the Seas in 1907; the most recent released one is Nautilus (2024).

1869/1870 novel by Jules Verne.

Every adaptation of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Under the Seas

Movie · 1907 · France · directed by Georges Méliès

1907 film from Georges Méliès.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Movie · 1916 · United States · directed by Stuart Paton

1916 film directed by Stuart Paton.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Movie · 1954 · United States · directed by Richard Fleischer

1954 film directed by Richard Fleischer.

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water poster

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water

TV series · 1990–1991 · NHK General TV · Japan · directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi

Japanese anime television series.

Nautilus poster

Nautilus

TV series · 2024–2024 · AMC · United Kingdom · directed by Michael Matthews and Ben C. Lucas

British adventure drama television series.

Voyages Extraordinaires: books in order

  1. Cinq Semaines en ballon (1863)
  2. The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1864)
  3. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864)
  4. From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
  5. In Search of the Castaways (1864)
  6. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869)
  7. Around the Moon (1870)
  8. A Floating City (1871)
  9. The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa (1872)
  10. The Fur Country (1873)
  11. Around the World in Eighty Days (1872)
  12. The Mysterious Island (1888)
  13. The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875)
  14. Michael Strogoff (1876)
  15. Off on a Comet
  16. The Child of the Cavern (1877)
  17. Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen (1878)
  18. The Begum's Fortune (1879)
  19. Tribulations of a Chinaman in China (1879)
  20. The Steam House (1880)
  21. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (1881)
  22. Godfrey Morgan (1882)
  23. The Green Ray (1882)
  24. Kéraban the Inflexible (1883)
  25. The Vanished Diamond (1884)
  26. The Archipelago on Fire (1884)
  27. Mathias Sandorf (1885)
  28. The Lottery Ticket (1886)
  29. Robur the Conqueror (1886)
  30. Texar's Revenge, or, North Against South (1887)
  31. The Flight to France (1887)
  32. Two Years' Vacation (1888)
  33. Family Without a Name (1889)
  34. The Purchase of the North Pole (1889)
  35. César Cascabel (1890)
  36. Mistress Branican (1891)
  37. The Castle From Carpathians (1892)
  38. Claudius Bombarnac (1892)
  39. Foundling Mick (1893)
  40. Captain Antifer (1894)
  41. Propeller Island (1895)
  42. Facing the Flag (1896)
  43. Clovis Dardentor (1896)
  44. An Antarctic Mystery (1897)
  45. The Mighty Orinoco (1898)
  46. The Will of an Eccentric (1899)
  47. The Castaways of the Flag (1900)
  48. The Village in the Treetops (1901)
  49. The Sea Serpent (1901)
  50. The Kip Brothers (1902)
  51. Traveling Scholarships (1903)
  52. A Drama in Livonia (1904)
  53. Master of the World (1904)

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Common questions

Has Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea been made into a TV show or movie?

Yes. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1869) has been adapted into 2 TV series and 3 movies: Under the Seas (1907), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990), Nautilus (2024).

Who wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea?

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea was written by Jules Verne and first published in 1869.

How many adaptations of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea are there?

We list 5 screen adaptations: 2 TV series and 3 movies.

Is a new Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea adaptation coming?

No new adaptation date is on record yet. The latest released adaptation is Nautilus (2024).

Is Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea part of a series?

Yes, it is book 6 of the Voyages Extraordinaires series; the series starts with Cinq Semaines en ballon.

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