Art of the Heist (2006)

Season 2

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 and studies the masterpieces coveted by the criminal world.

Released March 3, 2006 Episode 55 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: imdb.antiquity, imdb.art-documentary, imdb.art-heist, imdb.art-history, imdb.museum, imdb.art-theft

Watch Providers: Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Fawesome

Production Companies: Electric Sky Productions

Network: Ovation

Country:
Languages: English

IMDb

7.0

/51/

Trakt

/5/

TMDb

S2E1 - The Lady in Gold

Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was one of the most famous paintings of the twentieth century. But in March 1938 it was seized by the Nazis. The golden portrait, commissioned by Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer of his wife, was one of six Klimts taken by the Germans.

April 6, 2007, midnight

S2E2 - The Pharaoh's Head

In 1994 the head of Scotland Yard's Art squad was called to the British Museum to investigate a case of suspected stolen Egyptian artefacts.

April 13, 2007, midnight

S2E3 - Miami Sting

Two Rubens paintings are lifted from a tiny gallery in a small town in northern Spain by a mysterious robber. One of pictures turns up in Stockholm. The robber is arrested and convicted but escapes and disappears.

April 20, 2007, midnight

S2E4 - The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa

On a summers day in 1911 a man walked into the Louvre, took the Mona Lisa off the wall and walked out. He had stolen the world's most famous painting and thousands of people queued to see the empty space the painting had left.

April 27, 2007, midnight

S2E5 - The Russian Conspiracy

More than two hundred items with an estimated value of $5million, including jewellery and precious enamels, were discovered missing during a routine inventory check at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.

May 4, 2007, midnight

S2E6 - On the Trail of Moche Gold

In 1988 a glittering golden headdress was looted from an ancient tomb in the desert of northern Peru – and disappeared. The octopus headdress with eight Medusa like tentacles belonged to one of the Moche lords a sophisticated culture that pre dated the Incas by 1000 years.

May 11, 2007, midnight

S2E7 - The Disappeared

The Disappeared vanished from the National Art Gallery in Buenos Aires. At the time Argentina was ruled by a ruthless military junta responsible for the torture and death of thousands of ‘disappeared’ members of the opposition.

May 18, 2007, midnight

S2E8 - 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, midnight

Network: Ovation

Episode Runtime: 55 min.

Season Runtime: 55 min.

Released: March 3, 2006

Last Air Date: May 25, 2007, midnight

Status: Ended

Certification: NR

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