National Treasure

National Treasure is a 2004 adventure film from Touchstone Pictures. It is the first film in the National Treasure franchise. Nicolas Cage plays Benjamin Franklin Gates, a historian and amateur cryptologist searching for a lost treasure, once protected by the Knights Templar and hidden by the Freemasons during the early years of the United States. A coded map on the back of the Declaration of Independence points to the location of the "national treasure", but Gates isn't alone in his quest. Whoever can steal the Declaration and decode it first, will find the greatest treasure in history. The film also stars Diane Kruger.

Trivia
This movie was released under the Touchstone Pictures banner (which is part of Disney). While Book of Secrets was released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner, as it is clear that it is a more family-friendly movie.