is a two-hour documentary film which premiered on History Channel on September 21, 2009. Committee Films produced the film chronicles the author's nine-year pursuit of the origin and meaning of the enigmatic Hooked X symbol. This research delves deeply into the unknown and mysterious world of European visitors to North America prior to Columbus.

 

Committee Films won the NATPE competition for Emerging Producers of the Year for the Holy Grail in America pitch.

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Author Alan Butler and his wife Kate within the ruins of Rievaulx Abbey in Northern England. May 2008.

Cinematographer Bo Hakala shoots video of a small country church near Wells Cathedral in Southern England. May 2008.

Researcher Scott Wolter ferries to the island of Bronholm in Denmark. October 2008.

Committee Films crew members Ben Krueger and Andy Awes pose near Stonehenge in Southern England. May 2008.

Judge David Sinclair-Bouschor is interviewed at his home in Duluth, Minnesota, by Committee Films director Andy Awes. May 2008.

Ben Krueger dressed as a Templar Knight in a costume used in the Hollywood film Kingdom of Heaven, during the filming of reenactments at Phalen Park along the St. Croix River in Minnesota. June 2009.

Bo Hakala, Phil Joncas and another crew member confer during the filming of reenactments at Phalen Park along the St. Croix River in Minnesota. June 2009.

Scott Wolter's hands are filmed carving a Hooked X during reenactments at Phalen Park along the St. Croix River in Minnesota. June 2009.

Scott Wolter, Andy Awes, Alan Butler, Ben Krueger and Bo Hakala in Northern England. March, 2008.

Niven Sinclair stands in front of Temple Church in Temple, Scotland. April 2008.

The south transcept window and graveyard of Melrose Abbey, in Southern Scotland. April 2008.

Bo Hakala photographs researcher Simon Brighton inside Cambridge Round Church in Cambridge, England. May 2008.

Author David Brody pointing out features of the Westford Knight carving in Westford, Massachusetts. July 2008.

Rick Lynch and Andy Awes ponder while Bo Hakala shoots the Narragansett Rune Stone inscription at low tide in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. July 2008.

The Newport Tower after a heavy snowstorm on December 19, 2008.