National Treasure in release order
Two films and one ten-episode season, from November 2004 to February 2023. It is the shortest list on this site, and almost all of the argument is in two dates and one question about what counts.
In release order, National Treasure (2004) comes first, then National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007), and the ten episodes of National Treasure: Edge of History from December 2022 to February 2023.
How to read this table
Everything is in the order it came out, oldest first. The columns:
- Air date — when the entry was first released. Where a page carries something first seen outside the United States, that is the date used, and the notes under the table say so.
- Sch — schedule order, which breaks a tie within a single day. On a night two of these went out, the earlier slot comes first - and a streaming episode that dropped after midnight comes before a programme broadcast that evening.
- Notes — click Notes ... on any row for the episode's links and, where there is one, an explanation of the cross-over.
- Watch — where you can watch that entry, in your own country. The badges link to the episode itself rather than to the service's front page. On a narrow screen this column is hidden - tap Notes ... on a row to see the same thing.
- Watched — tick a box and it is remembered in this browser. Turn syncing on in Preferences and it follows you between devices, with no account and no email address. An episode listed on more than one franchise is ticked on all of them at once.
Three icons can appear in the Notes cell, and they are the reason this site bothers with release order at all:
Story impact — this episode references another series in the franchise.
Story arc — it is part of a story running across several series.
Guest star — a character from another series appears in it.
In the Watch column, the shape of a badge is the difference between watching something now and paying for it again:
- P+ Solid — included with a subscription to that service.
- P+ Outlined — there to rent or buy.
Your country is worked out from your connection and can be changed in Preferences. It is a snapshot rather than a live check, so treat it as a strong hint rather than a promise — services add and drop things constantly.
| Air DateDate | Schedule OrderSch | Verse | Series | SeasonS | EpisodeE | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-11-19 | 1 | NATIONALTREASURE | Movies | 1 | 1 | National Treasure | Notes ... |
| 2007-12-19 | 1 | NATIONALTREASURE | Movies | 1 | 2 | National Treasure: Book of Secrets | Notes ... |
| 2022-12-14 | 1 | NATIONALTREASURE | National Treasure: Edge of History | 1 | 1 | I'm a Ghost | Notes ... |
| 2022-12-14 | 2 | NATIONALTREASURE | National Treasure: Edge of History | 1 | 2 | The Treasure Map | Notes ... |
| 2022-12-21 | 1 | NATIONALTREASURE | National Treasure: Edge of History | 1 | 3 | Graceland Gambit | Notes ... |
| 2022-12-28 | 1 | NATIONALTREASURE | National Treasure: Edge of History | 1 | 4 | Charlotte | Notes ... |
| 2023-01-04 | 1 | NATIONALTREASURE | National Treasure: Edge of History | 1 | 5 | Bad Romance | Notes ... |
| 2023-01-11 | 1 | NATIONALTREASURE | National Treasure: Edge of History | 1 | 6 | Frenemies | Notes ... |
| 2023-01-18 | 1 | NATIONALTREASURE | National Treasure: Edge of History | 1 | 7 | Point of No Return | Notes ... |
| 2023-01-25 | 1 | NATIONALTREASURE | National Treasure: Edge of History | 1 | 8 | Prison Break | Notes ... |
| 2023-02-01 | 1 | NATIONALTREASURE | National Treasure: Edge of History | 1 | 9 | A Meeting with Salazar | Notes ... |
| 2023-02-08 | 1 | NATIONALTREASURE | National Treasure: Edge of History | 1 | 10 | Treasure Protectors | Notes ... |
About this order
What is on this list
Both theatrical films — National Treasure in 2004 and Book of Secrets in 2007 — and all ten episodes of National Treasure: Edge of History, the Disney+ series that arrived fifteen years later and was cancelled after its first season.
That is the whole of the franchise on screen. The four Gates family novels are books. There is no third film: one has been in development since 2008, has had at least four scripts written for it, and has never had a release date. Some guides list it anyway, which is a reasonable thing for a wiki to do and not something a list ordered by release can do at all.
Book of Secrets opened two days early, in South Korea
Every guide gives it 21 December 2007. It opened on the 19th in South Korea, and the evidence for that is better than a release list.
Box Office Mojo's South Korean chart for the weekend of 21–23 December shows the film at number three, taking $2,076,191 that weekend against a running total of $3,398,133. A film cannot have taken $1.3 million before a weekend it opened on. Two other markets, Oman and Taiwan, are given the same 19 December date.
One earlier claim is not used. IMDb has it opening in Kuwait on the 18th, a day earlier still, and nothing corroborates that — Kuwait publishes no box office, so there is no chart to check it against and no second source that carries the date. This list uses the earliest date it can actually stand behind.
The first film needs none of this. It opened in Canada, the Philippines and the United States on the same day, 19 November 2004. The Pasadena screening eleven days before that was a premiere, and a premiere is not a release.
The series is a sequel that mostly leaves the films alone
Edge of History is set twenty years after Book of Secrets and follows a different treasure, in a different part of the country, found by people who have never met Ben Gates. It shares a world rather than a story.
That shows in how few rows here carry a cross-over mark — two of twelve, and both for the same reason: somebody from the films is actually on screen. Peter Sadusky, the FBI agent who spent both films half a step behind Ben Gates, opens the first episode and hands the plot on. Riley Poole arrives in the fourth, for Sadusky's funeral, gets stuck in a trap with the new lead and takes a phone call from Ben about his podcast.
Everything else is memory. Sadusky's house, his files, his clue room and his death drive all ten episodes, but he is dead from the end of the first one, and marking every episode that mentions him would mark the whole series and say nothing.
Ben Gates never appears. Nicolas Cage is not in the series and the phone call is one-sided.
Where the links go
Every entry links to IMDb, to Wikipedia and to the National Treasure Wiki.
No episode has a Wikipedia article of its own and there is no separate episode list, so each episode's link goes to its own row on the series article.
One fan wiki link is not the obvious one. The fourth episode is called Charlotte, and on that wiki Charlotte is a disambiguation page — a dog, a ship, a woman who lived at Mount Vernon, and the episode. This list links the episode.