National Treasure (2004)

Storyline National Treasure (2004)

1832. In one rainy night the last from the remained founding fathers signed the declaration on independence of the USA Charles Carroll, went to the White House. He felt that he will die soon, and was going to let the seventh president of America into a secret of infinite treasures which the order of knights templars preserved several hundreds of years. But Andrew Jackson that night did not appear at home, and the dying mason gave one of the keys leading to wealth, the ordinary groom Thomas Gates.

It led to richness of improbable value because of which since ancient times tyrants, Pharaohs, emperors and commanders were at war. Gold, relics and gemstones passed from hand to hand, gradually they became more and more. At some point the trace of treasures got lost, and only through one thousand years they were found in hiding places of the temple of Solomon by the knights participating in the first crusade. They decided that even the king has no right to own such wealth alone. Then the legendary order of knights templars was created - whose main mission was protection of wealth. Within hundred years they transported jewelry across the ocean, to America where new secret society of frankmason arose. Their number included George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revir. They took care of that treasures did not fall into hands of the British, and reliably hid them.

Let into a secret left several keys opening the place of burial of the most valuable treasure in the world. But over time these keys were forgotten or lost. From them there was only one, and it carefully passes from father to son in family of descendants of that groom. Such fairy tale was heard more than once in the childhood from the grandfather by the main character of this movie Benjamin Gates. Also there is nothing surprising that, having matured, Benjamin himself became the treasures hunter. And he should be convinced soon that not all keys are lost, and fairy tales of the childhood - at all not fairy tales. The main character is waited by a fascinating and dangerous travel behind heritage of order of knights templars.