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Investigating the most high profile art thefts of the 20th and 21st centuries, ‘Art of the Heist’ fits together the pieces of the crime jigsaw...
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Season 1

  • The Big Sting
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    The Big Sting

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/3/2006

    In 2000 two Renoirs and a Rembrandt worth $80 million were stolen in an armed daylight raid on the National Museum in Stockholm . It was a well-planned heist with the thieves making their escape by boat through the labyrinth of canals in the Swedish capital. When the ringleaders were finally traced, police discovered that the plot to carry out the robbery had been hatched by two inmates in a prison many miles away.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The World's Biggest Heist
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    The World's Biggest Heist

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/10/2006

    When the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum was robbed in 1990 it was the biggest art theft in history. Up to $500 million worth of art was ripped from the walls of the gallery in a single night, including rare masterpieces by Vermeer and Rembrandt.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Forger and the Conman
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    The Forger and the Conman

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/17/2006

    For more than a decade two Englishmen conned a gullible art market with fakes and forgeries. Art teacher John Myatt produced over two hundred fake paintings by leading 20th-century artists. John Drewe forged the provenance of the paintings to make Myatt’s fakes seem genuine.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Search for the Scream
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    The Search for the Scream

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/24/2006

    Edvard Munch’s the Scream is one of the most famous paintings in twentieth century art. In 2004 two robbers burst into the museum dedicated to the great Norwegian artist and ripped The Scream and another Munch masterpiece, the Madonna, from the walls.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Chasing Cezanne
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    Chasing Cezanne

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/31/2006

    Nearly thirty years ago thieves walked into a remote Massachusetts home and stole seven paintings. Among them was a Cezanne, one of the most influential paintings in art history.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Den of Antiquities
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    Den of Antiquities

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/7/2006

    In 1974 in war torn northern Cyprus a priceless mosaic is chipped from the walls of a Greek orthodox church by Turkish looters. It is smuggled out of the country into the underworld of stolen antiquities and broken into pieces before being sold to the highest bidder.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown