Art of the Heist: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

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. This thrilling documentary unlocks gallery doors to chronicle history's most notorious art thefts—from nabbing the Mona Lisa out of the Louvre in broad daylight to the still-unsolved blockbuster heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Vivid reenactments show how cunning break-ins, scams, and forgeries netted millions of dollars and became front-page news. Follow the trail of stolen art as it passes through the hands of unscrupulous dealers and shadowy smugglers, then often into obscurity. In candid interviews, the thieves who stole the art and the investigators who chased them share insights into crimes committed in galleries, tombs, and mansions from Egypt to Sweden. Some of the colorful characters suspected in the thefts include mobster Whitey Bulger, Nazi Hermann Göring, and even painter Pablo Picasso.

Series details

• Title: Art of the Heist
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: History
• Premiere date: 2006-03-03
• Final broadcast date listed: 2007-05-25
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Ovation
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 79000
• IMDb ID: tt5705416
• TVDB ID: 84966

Cast and credited roles

• Dion Graham — Narrator

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2006-03-03; final listed air date 2006-04-07; episode order: 6.
• Season 2: premiered 2007-04-06; final listed air date 2007-05-25; episode order: 8.

Source and licence

Adapted from Art of the Heist on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.