What is a league? 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a classic but sailors might know that number doesn’t really add up. This is a case of distance rather than depth. If you do the math according to depth, it’s safe to say this story would be better suited in space than at sea. | The Sailing Academy

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 American Technicolor science fiction-adventure film and one of the first features shot in CinemaScope. It was personally produced by Walt Disney through Walt Disney Productions, directed by Richard Fleischer, and stars Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, and Peter Lorre. It was also the first feature-length Disney film to be distributed by Buena Vista Distribution. The film is adapted from Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.