20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)

Directed by

Stuart Paton

Genre

silent film, adventure film, science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 63 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 1916 silent film adaptation of the Jules Verne novel. It follows a crew who encounter Captain Nemo and his submarine the Nautilus on an underwater voyage.

adventurousclassicsilentunderwaterinventivenostalgicslow-paced

What happens

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1916 American silent film directed by Stuart Paton. The film's storyline is based on the 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne. It also incorporates elements from Verne's 1875 novel The Mysterious Island. On May 4, 2010, a new print of the film was shown accompanied by a live performance of an original score by Stephin Merritt at the Castro Theatre, as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival. In 2016, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for its National Film Registry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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