Documentary films about art theft and forgery

The story of Nazi Germany's plundering of Europe's great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage.

A tiny Texas town. $350 million worth of medieval treasure. The discovery is just the beginning.

In March of 1990, two thieves dressed as Boston police officers gained entrance to the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston Massachusetts and successfully executed the largest art heist in modern history. Among the thirteen priceless works stolen was Vermeer's "The Concert" one of only 35 of the masters surviving works. Not a single one of the works has been recovered. STOLEN is a full exploration of the Gardner theft, and the fascinating, disparate characters involved: from the 19th century Grand dame Isabella Gardner to a private detective obsessed with finding the art to a terrorist organization with a penchant for stealing Vermeers.

Documentary series revealing the stories behind some of the world's biggest heists, featuring eyewitness accounts and dramatic reconstructions of events.

In 2014 a large painting representing Judith Beheading Holofernes was discovered in an attic in Toulouse, France. A controversy ensued immediately about the attribution of the painting's authorship to Caravaggio. The documentary follows a famed art expert in charge of organizing the sale of the painting on behalf of the owners, while specialists debate on its authenticity.

Ein Dokumentarfilm über Betrug und Fälschung.

Made You Look ist eine amerikanische Krimidokumentation über den größten Kunstbetrug in der amerikanischen Geschichte, die in der superreichen, superbesessenen und superschnellen Kunstwelt von New York spielt.

Ein Dokumentarfilm über das Leben und die Zeit von Wolfgang Beltracchi, der die internationale Kunstwelt fast 40 Jahre lang durch Fälschung und Verkauf von Gemälden von Meistern des frühen 20.

Im Jahr 1990 dringen zwei als Polizisten verkleidete Männer in ein Museum in Boston ein und stehlen Kunstschätze von unvorstellbarem Wert. Wer wagt, der gewinnt?

Das Geheimnis um den Salvator Mundi, das erste Gemälde von Leonardo da Vinci, das seit mehr als einem Jahrhundert entdeckt wurde und nun scheinbar verschwunden ist.

In 1986, Australia's priciest painting disappears from the National Gallery of Victoria. Unusual ransom notes surface amid city-wide rumors. Marc Fennell probes the theft of Picasso's The Weeping Woman in this true-crime tale.

Documentary that follows the struggle for control of Dr. Albert C. Barnes' 25 billion dollar collection of modern and post-impressionist art.

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.

The history of various thefts of art and efforts to recover them.

Der charismatische Mark Landis ist der wohl produktivste Kunstfälscher in der Geschichte der USA.

One of the world's most notorious art forgers, Guy Ribes is profiled in this documentary. For over three decades, Ribes has scored major deals selling works by Picasso, Matisse, and other legends, with a twist: Ribes himself painted the facsimile works himself. Fake heirs, ruthless dealers, and more - it's all here in the life of Guy Ribes, a Genuine Forger.

Derren has bet a renowned art collector that he can steal a painting from under his nose - and attempts to use OAP's to pull it off.

The end of the Second World War in Europe, and the aftermath: war criminals to be brought to trial, stolen art treasures to be returned to their rightful owners.

A look back to 1911 when one of the world's most famous works of art, the Mona Lisa, was stolen from one of the most famous museums in the world, the Louvre in Paris.

Jamie investigates what Hitler intended to do with the priceless works of art stolen by the Nazi's from across Europe and what lay behind the Fuhrer's obsession with religious artefacts.

The foundation of today's multi-billion dollar art market still reverberates with the beautiful lies of one of the most prolific art forgers of the last century.

Eine Künstlerin freundet sich mit dem Dieb an, der ihre Bilder gestohlen hat. Sie wird seine Verbündete, wenn er bei einem Autounfall verletzt wird und eine Vollzeitpflege benötigt, auch wenn ihre Gemälde nicht gefunden werden.

Eine Geschichte des Louvre während der Nazi-Besatzung und eine Betrachtung zur Bedeutung und Zeitlosigkeit von Kunst.

Story behind the disappearance and reappearance during a New Orleans auction of painting "Savior of the World" attributed, with controversy, to Leonardo Da Vinci.

Risking being denounced as an 'enemy of the people,' Igor Savitsky rescues 40,000 forbidden fellow artists' works and creates in a far desert of Soviet Uzbekistan a museum now worth millions.