National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) on Netflix
PG20072h 4mActionAdventureMystery
A lost page from John Wilkes Booth's diary names Thomas Gates as a conspirator in Lincoln's murder. His descendant Ben Gates and his father Patrick work to clear the family name.
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Plot summary
In 1865, John Wilkes Booth brings cryptographer Thomas Gates a coded message copied into his diary. Thomas works it out as directions to Cíbola, the fabled city of gold. He pulls the cipher's pages out of the diary, and only one fragment survives. A century and a half later, treasure hunter Ben Gates tells that story at a Civilian Heroes conference. A black market dealer, Mitch Wilkinson, stands up with the missing fragment; it carries Thomas's name beside Mary Surratt's and Samuel Mudd's. The public reads it as proof that Thomas helped plan Abraham Lincoln's murder. Ben and his father Patrick begin hunting for something that clears the Gates name; the search brings Ben to his friend Riley Poole, and to Abigail Chase, the National Archives' document conservation director and Ben's estranged ex-girlfriend.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Knights of the Golden Circle, mentioned in the film as being behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and pursuing the city of gold, had actually disbanded in 1863. The group was based in Cincinnati, Ohio, where its founder George W. L. Bickley resided.
- The wooden plank map hidden within the Resolute Desks would have been of no use to the Confederacy, as the desks were constructed and delivered between 1879 and 1880, some 15 years after the American Civil War concluded and the Confederate states disbanded.
