Netflix released the official trailer for “This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist” the new documentary series on the unsolved robbery of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. The documentary launches on Netflix on April 7th.
500 million dollars worth of missing art. A 10 million dollar reward for whoever finds it. It’s your turn to enter the mystery. 30 years ago, two thieves brazenly stole millions of dollars worth of art from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Where the art is now remains a mystery. Today, investigators reviewing the cold case attempt to recover the missing works, unmask the perpetrators and solve the biggest art heist in history.
It was the biggest art heist in history: Over St. Patrick’s Day weekend in 1990, legendary works by Rembrandt, Vermeer and others worth over half a billion dollars today were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
This four-part documentary series from director Colin Barnicle covers the leads, dead ends, lucky breaks and speculations that characterized the investigation of this still unsolved mystery.