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  1. National Treasure is a 2004 adventure film from the Walt Disney Studios. 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 ...

  2. "I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence." ―Benjamin Gates[src] Dr. Benjamin Franklin Gates BA., MEng., PhD., is an American treasure hunter and cryptologist, famous for finding the Templar Treasure. Ben was born on May 1965, to Patrick Henry Gates and his wife, Emily. Grandson of John Adams Gates. In 1974, Ben was told by his grandfather, John Gates, about a treasure that goes ...

  3. Benjamin Franklin Gates is an American historian, cryptographer, and treasure hunter.When Ben was young, his grandfather John told him that, in 1832, Charles Carroll passed on a secret clue to their ancestor of a fabled treasure hidden in America from ancient times to the Knights Templar, Founding Fathers and Freemasons.

  4. Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie in secret clues embedded in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and Gates is in a race to find the gold before his enemies do.

  5. Jan 25, 2024 · A: Nicolas Cage plays the lead role of Benjamin Franklin Gates, a historian and treasure hunter. Diane Kruger portrays Dr. Abigail Chase, a curator at the National Archives. Justin Bartha plays Riley Poole, a tech-savvy accomplice to Benjamin Gates. Sean Bean plays the role of Ian Howe, a former colleague turned antagonist.

  6. National Treasure: Directed by Jon Turteltaub. With Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean. A historian races to find the legendary Templar Treasure before a team of mercenaries.

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  8. Benjamin "Ben" Franklin Gates is a member of a family of treasure hunters. At a young age , his grandfather tells him the legend of the hidden treasures of the Founding Fathers of the USA . His grandfather teaches him that the men and women of American history buried the treasure somewhere within the country and have hidden highly cryptic clues throughout various lands within the nation's borders.