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The Monuments Men. In a race against time, a crew of art historians and museum curators unite to recover renown works of art stolen by Nazis before Hitler destroys them. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from German thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind ...
Jul 11, 2020 · Stout joined the Monuments Men in December 1944 and was involved in one of the biggest operations they performed: the art rescue at Altaussee. Between 1943 and 1945, the Nazis cached their extensive collection of stolen art in a network of mines across Germany and Austria in Altaussee, Merkers, and Siegen.
Aug 12, 2013 · Release Date: 7 February 2014 (United States)Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing ...
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Feb 7, 2014 · Every now and then, "The Monuments Men" produces a memorably charming or haunting moment. There's an appropriately underplayed sequence of the men discovering a wooden barrel filled with tiny, misshapen bits of gold, then riding a freight elevator in silence as they think about where the bits came from. There's a fine comic scene of Balaban ...
Feb 7, 2014 · The Monuments Men book states that "the walls were lined with photographs of the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, Versailles, and other famous Parisian landmarks." Despite trying to tell the men that he viewed the Nazis as "complete frauds" and only carried out his duties as an SS officer for the sake of protecting the art, Robert Posey and Lincoln ...
Between 1943 and MFAA’s dissolution in 1946, the Monuments Men succeeded in recovering thousands of paintings, sculptures, gold, and other cultural objects in both Europe and Asia. Though the unit deactivated in Germany in 1950, the specialty remains in today’s United States Army Civil Affairs.
