Art of the Heist

Art of the Heist (2006-2007)

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They turned crime into an art form. Meet the crooks who plundered artistic treasures, sending shock waves through the art scene and setting off frantic dragnets across the globe. This thrilling documentary unlocks gallery doors to chronicle history's most notorious art thefts—from nabbing the Mona Lisa out of the Louvre in broad daylight to the still-unsolved blockbuster heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Vivid reenactments show how cunning break-ins, scams, and forgeries netted millions of dollars and became front-page news. Follow the trail of stolen art as it passes through the hands of unscrupulous dealers and shadowy smugglers, then often into obscurity. In candid interviews, the thieves who stole the art and the investigators who chased them share insights into crimes committed in galleries, tombs, and mansions from Egypt to Sweden. Some of the colorful characters suspected in the thefts include mobster Whitey Bulger, Nazi Hermann Göring, and even painter Pablo Picasso.

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Scheduleevery Friday (60 min)

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The Thieving Don Juan
Season 2Episode 860 min

The Thieving Don Juan

It’s four in the morning in the centre of Vienna. An alarm goes off at the seventh floor window of the Museum of Art History but the security guards don’t react. The next day one of the most important gold sculptures from the Renaissance is discovered stolen. It’s insurance value is a cool £35 million.
May 25, 2007

Recent Episodes

EpisodeNameAirdate
S02E08The Thieving Don JuanMay 25, 2007
S02E07The DisappearedMay 18, 2007
S02E06On the Trail of the Moche GoldMay 11, 2007
S02E05The Russian ConspiracyMay 4, 2007
S02E04The Man Who Stole the Mona LisaApr 27, 2007
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Cast

Dion Graham

Dion Graham

voices himself
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voiced by Dion Graham
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