The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents in the United States, and arguably in the world. It started the United States of America as a country of its own on July 4, 1776.

In the film, Benjamin Franklin Gates, a historian, along with computer expert Riley Poole and archivist Abigail Chase, search for a massive lost Freemason treasure, which includes a map hidden on the back of the United States Declaration of Independence.

National Treasure is a guilty pleasure of mine. I have a strange liking for the movie, despite many people thinking it's ridiculous. This is one of the more ...

Dec 19, 2016 · In this edition of "Presenting the Facts", we explore the 2004 blockbuster National Treasure. The story was written by Jim Kouf, Oren Aviv, and Charles Segars, and the screenplay was by Jim Kouf, Cormac Wibberley, and Marianne Wibberley.

Mar 5, 2021 · Here you will find Riley Poole quotes from 'National Treasure' and declaration of independence quotes. 1. "180 years of searching and I'm three feet away. Of all the words written here about freedom, there's a line here that's at the heart of all the others." - Benjamin Franklin Gates, 'National Treasure'. 2.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off...

The 2004 movie National Treasure alleged (among other historically crazy things) that there is a secret map on the back of the Declaration of Independence. There is no map, but there is something on the back of the engrossed and signed parchment.

Nov 24, 2023 · In a new video for Vanity Fair, Nicolas Cage goes over some of the most famous scenes in his career, in some of Cage's best movies, including his monologue in front of the Declaration of...

The main prop in the film National Treasure, was the American icon, The Declaration of Independence. I have replicated this piece of history by using high resolution scans of both the original Declaration and the 1823 engraving made by William J. Stone.

n National Treasure,Ben Gates gives a salute to the signers of the Declaration of Independence: “Here’s to the men who did what was considered wrong in order to do what they knew was right.” Then he steals the Declaration of Independence from the National Archives! Ben knows it contains clues and that other treasure hunters are after it.