Seasons & Episodes
The Big Sting
In 2000 two Renoirs and a Rembrandt worth $80 million were stolen in an armed daylight raid on the National Museum in St
The World's Biggest Heist
When the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum was robbed in 1990 it was the biggest art theft in history. Up to $500 million
The Forger and the Conman
For more than a decade two Englishmen conned a gullible art market with fakes and forgeries. Art teacher John Myatt prod
The Search for the Scream
Edvard Munch’s the Scream is one of the most famous paintings in twentieth century art. In 2004 two robbers burst into
Chasing Cezanne
Nearly thirty years ago thieves walked into a remote Massachusetts home and stole seven paintings. Among them was a Ceza
Den of Antiquities
In 1974 in war torn northern Cyprus a priceless mosaic is chipped from the walls of a Greek orthodox church by Turkish l
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
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
Miami Sting
Two Rubens paintings are lifted from a tiny gallery in a small town in northern Spain by a mysterious robber. One of pic
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
The Russian Conspiracy
More than two hundred items with an estimated value of $5million, including jewellery and precious enamels, were discove
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 Disappeared
The Disappeared vanished from the National Art Gallery in Buenos Aires. At the time Argentina was ruled by a ruthless mi
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 H