There's more to history than American history. I find that Americans know a lot about their own history and next to nothing about the rest of the world, or how their history impacted on other countries. I also find they know lots of names and dates but not much about the actual importance or consequences of those events. IMO it is more imporatnt to know what happened and why and what came as a result rather than when.

Of course, I am not talking about all Americans, so no offense to anyone.

I personally am very into history, but I thought National treasure was lame. It was made by Americans for Americans, and screw the rest of us. Which is fair enough I guess, but don't expect me to enjoy it

Anyway, you can't even compare National Treasure to the Da Vinci code - they are totally different and unrelated.