Jules Verne's Amazing Journeys Season 1, Episode 1: Around the World in Eighty Days

Ceasar Cascabel

We stole the Cascabel circus recipe. Unable to finance the return trip by boat, the troupe is definitively retained in San Francisco - The son Cascabel finds the solution: the acrobats will go up North America to the icebergs of Bering Strait and will cross the steppes of Asia. For Caesar Cascabel and his troupe then begins an extraordinary journey to a thousand dangers, where shamans, secret agents, arctic tribes and wild beasts meet.

47 min

La Jangada

On board the largest raft ever built, Joam Garral leaves Peru with his family to marry his daughter in Brazil. This raid of the Amazon is not without risk for Garral: 20 years ago, the latter, whose name was Dacosta, was unjustly sentenced to death in Brazil in a case of diamond theft. Sinister omen, a menacing character named Torres is invited aboard the Jangada and, after an attack of alligators, the justice comes to stop Dacosta.

The Mysterious Island

During the American Civil War (1861-1865), four men and a young boy flee aboard a balloon. A hurricane makes them run aground on a totally unknown volcanic island, far from any civilization. They must learn to live like Robinson Crusoe, tame a particularly hostile flora and fauna and even resist a pirate attack. But an invisible hand watches over our heroes and lets them predict that they are not alone on this truly mysterious island.

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Professor Otto Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel set out on the animated adventure of a lifetime when they journey to the center of the Earth.

The Southern Star (The Vanished Diamond)

A geologist without personal fortune, Cyprien Mere has no hope of marrying Alice Walker, daughter of the owner of the richest diamond mine in South Africa. Despite the hostility of the miners in the region, our scientist creates an artificial diamond, the Southern Star, immediately stolen by greedy hands. Alice's father promises his daughter's hand to anyone who finds the thief and the diamond. For Cyprien, a race against time against dangerous rivals enters the Veldt.