20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916 film) 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. A strange giant "sea creature" has been rampaging the seas. The American naval ship "Abraham Lincoln" is sent to investigate, but is rammed by "the creature" which turns out to be "The Nautilus", the fantastic submarine of the enigmatic Captain Nemo, and "Rudderless, the 'Abraham Lincoln' drifts on". Then, in "A strange rescue" he guides the sub to surface under those pitched overboard and his crew take them, including Professor Aronnax,
Captain Nemo said to have died of old age, on board the "Nautilus", at Dakkar Grotto on Lincoln Island in the South Pacific. Funeral rites were administered by Cyrus Harding, one of the castaways protected by Nemo himself, and his vessel was then submerged in the waters of the grotto. Nemo's character in the novels is largely seen through the observations of Professor Pierre Aronnax, the narrator of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", when Nemo is about forty years of age and described as a reticent man, tall and swarthy in appearance, with a straight nose and wide-set eyes. In "The