First Aired: September 6th, 2006
Status: Ended
Genre: Documentary
Summary: Art of the Heist uses detailed and dramatic reconstructions to give a crook's-eye view of the planning and execution of some of the world's most daring thefts. Each episode emphasizes a headline-making art heist, examining how some of the world's greatest art treasures, including masterpieces by Munch, Cezanne, Vermeer, Renoir and Rembrandt, were snatched from the world's most prestigious and well-protected museums.
Accounting for over $6 billion in annual losses, art theft is one of the world's largest and most intriguing criminal enterprises. Art of the Heist investigates the most high profile art thefts in recent history and fits together the pieces of the crime jigsaw to explain how the masterpieces were stolen and eventually recovered. Containing intimate interviews with the museum curators, guards, thieves and detectives involved, Art of the Heist takes us on intriguing and dramatic journeys that even Hollywood couldn't match.
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# of Episodes: 14
# of Episodes I watched: 0
# of Episodes I haven't watched: 14
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Last Aired Episode
Season 2 - Episode 8: The Thieving Don Juan
Air Date: December 19th, 2008
Summary: At four in the morning, one of the most important gold sculptures from the Renaissance is discovered stolen from the Museum of Art History in Vienna. Its insurance value is a cool $65 million. After three years the Police finally discovered who stole the sculpture, Not a Balkan warlord as initially thought but a strikingly handsome fifty year old security alarm expert from Vienna with an eye for the ladies-as well as renaissance art.
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