Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

A Victorian inventor travels to the year 802,701 and finds what humanity became. George Pal's 1960 film won an Academy Award for its effects.

H. G. Wells

Martian cylinders land in the English countryside and the machines come out. Filmed in 1953 and again by Steven Spielberg in 2005 with Tom Cruise.

H. G. Wells

A shipwrecked man lands on an island where a surgeon is turning animals into people. Adapted in 1977 with Burt Lancaster and in 1996 with Marlon Brando.

H. G. Wells

A professor decodes a runic message and climbs down an Icelandic volcano. The 1959 film with James Mason and Pat Boone made it a family adventure classic.

Jules Verne