The Monuments Men (2014)
The Monuments Men is a 2014 war film directed by George Clooney and written and produced by Clooney and Grant Heslov. The film stars an ensemble cast including Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, and Cate Blanchett.
The film is loosely based on the 2007 non-fiction book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter. It follows an Allied group from the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program that is given the task of finding and saving pieces of art and other culturally important items before Nazis destroy or steal them during World War II.
The film is loosely based on the 2007 non-fiction book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter. It follows an Allied group from the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program that is given the task of finding and saving pieces of art and other culturally important items before Nazis destroy or steal them during World War II.
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00:05:08 This is Da Vinci's Last Supper.
00:05:11 The British bombers leveled three walls and a roof.
00:05:16 This is Monte Cassino, founded in 529 by Saint Benedict.
00:05:21 This is in February.
00:05:23 This is Monte Cassino in March after we dropped 20 tons of explosives on it.
00:05:30 Mr. President, the simple fact is that we are at a point in this war that is the most dangerous to the greatest historical achievements known to man.
00:05:38 But Professor Stokes, understand that this is war, and that lives are lost, and with them, oftentimes, their greatest achievements.
00:05:48 Yes, sir.
00:05:49 There's something more.
00:05:53 This is the Ghent Altarpiece.
00:05:56 It is the defining monument of the Catholic Church.
00:05:59 We now know that the Nazis have stolen it.
00:06:02 Now, while we must and we will, sir, win this war, we should also remember the high price that will be paid if the very foundation of modern society is destroyed.
00:06:13 Let's look at where we are now.
00:06:17 The Russians are here.
00:06:19 The Allies are here and here.
00:06:23 In the next few months, God willing, we are all going to end up in Berlin, meaning that we will have blasted our way west through Poland, through Hungary, through Austria, north through Rome and Florence, and east through Paris.
00:06:42 And then the question must be asked.
00:06:45 Who would make sure that the Statue of David is still standing, or that Mona Lisa is still smiling?
00:06:53 Who would be their protectors?
00:06:56 Well, Professor, it's a very compelling argument.
00:07:00 What would you suggest?
00:07:02 I suggest you pull together young art scholars to get over there and identify the great works.
00:07:07 But young art scholars are already over there, fighting.
00:07:12 You have a family?
00:07:14 I have a wife and a young son.
00:07:18 I might be asking a great deal of you then.
00:07:22 I'll do my best, sir.
00:07:36 Is a Michelangelo joke to be made?
00:07:40 You're just the man to make it.
00:07:42 You hungry?
00:07:44 You buying?
00:07:45 Uncle Sam is.
00:07:59 How's Penny?
00:08:00 She's swell.
00:08:01 I do question her taste.
00:08:03 So does she.
00:08:05 How's the ticker?
00:08:07 Still ticking.
00:08:08 You want to get in the war?
00:08:13 Monuments, men.
00:08:14 Signed by Roosevelt.
00:08:15 I see that.
00:08:17 I'm to put a team together and try to protect what's left and find what's missing.
00:08:22 Aren't you a little old for that?
00:08:24 Yes.
00:08:26 You want to go into a war zone and tell our boys what they can and cannot blow up?
00:08:31 That's the idea.
00:08:32 Okay. How many men?
00:08:33 For now, six.
00:08:34 Jesus.
00:08:36 With you, that's seven.
00:08:37 That's much better.
00:08:38 We're going to go through basic in Shrivenham, England, and then we wait for orders.
00:08:42 Basic?
00:08:43 Mm-hmm.
00:08:44 Basic training?
00:08:45 Us.
00:08:49 Oh, boy.
00:08:50 You're going to need a point man in England.
00:08:53 Yeah, Donald Jeffries.
00:08:54 He's a drunk.
00:08:55 You're a drunk.
00:08:56 That's true. Pass me that.
00:08:57 Yeah.
00:08:58 But isn't Donald Jeffries in jail?
00:08:59 No, he didn't go to jail.
00:09:00 His father stepped in and paid the money back.
00:09:03 How about his wife?
00:09:04 Did she stick it out?
00:09:05 No.
00:09:07 Nobody stuck it out.
00:09:11 So when do we start?
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00:11:43 Good to see you, Frank.
00:11:50 Hey, how are you?
00:11:51 James.
00:11:52 Donald.
00:11:53 Well, the chaps are all very anxious to get started.
00:11:55 You're a lieutenant?
00:11:56 They are getting desperate around here.
00:11:57 Don't let Churchill hear you say that.
00:11:59 Well, James, how's that lovely wife of yours?
00:12:01 Fine.
00:12:02 She told me to send you a kiss, which I'm not prepared to deliver.
00:12:04 I'll just shake.
00:12:05 You usually do.
00:12:06 Not anymore.
00:12:07 I'm on the wagon.
00:12:08 Since when?
00:12:09 Nine o'clock this morning.
00:12:10 Congratulations.
00:12:11 Thank you, Private.
00:12:13 This is Private Epstein from New Jersey.
00:12:15 You don't say.
00:12:16 Whereabouts?
00:12:17 Newark.
00:12:18 But, uh, really the north side.
00:12:19 Of Newark?
00:12:20 Yes, sir.
00:12:21 The north side.
00:12:22 That's what I thought.
00:12:23 Yes, indeed.
00:12:24 I was born in Germany.
00:12:25 The north side of Germany.
00:12:26 How are the fellows making out?
00:12:27 Like Olympians.
00:12:29 We have your architect from Chicago, Sergeant Richard Campbell.
00:12:34 And we have a Frenchman, Lieutenant Jean-Claude Clement.
00:12:37 Director of Design at the Chalet School of Fine Arts before the war.
00:12:41 Is Preston here?
00:12:43 Private Preston Savage.
00:12:45 Private?
00:12:46 That's not going to sit very well with him.
00:12:47 It doesn't.
00:12:48 And finally, we have your sculptor, Sergeant Walter Garfield.
00:12:53 He's a good edge.
00:12:54 I worked with him on the World War I memorial in St. Louis.
00:12:57 Aha.
00:12:58 St. Louis.
00:12:59 How are you, old boy?
00:13:03 Hey, Walter.
00:13:04 How they treating you?
00:13:06 They're taking it pretty easy on us.
00:13:08 I think they feel sorry for us old guys.
00:13:10 I don't much fancy an obstacle course.
00:13:12 It's not so bad.
00:13:13 By the end, you're just crawling on your belly while teenagers shoot blanks over your head.
00:13:18 Well, yes and no.
00:13:20 How's that?
00:13:21 Yes, they are teenagers.
00:13:22 And no?
00:13:23 They're not blanks.
00:13:24 We're meeting up after mess.
00:13:27 Let the other chaps know, will you?
00:13:29 Try not to get shot in the meantime.
00:13:35 I'm guessing you fellas have all gotten to know each other by now.
00:13:38 Basic training will do that for you.
00:13:40 You've all been selected by myself and Lieutenant Jeffries here
00:13:43 because we're going to need your knowledge and we're going to need your skill.
00:13:46 We have been tasked to find and protect buildings, monuments, and art.
00:13:52 Private, will you get those lights?
00:13:54 Did you know they were shooting at us with real bullets?
00:13:59 Yes.
00:14:00 Everyone's favorite dictator.
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00:14:05 Age 19, before his romantic novel Mein Kampf,
00:14:09 he was a failed art student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
00:14:13 Hitler painted that?
00:14:14 It's not bad.
00:14:15 It's not good.
00:14:16 This photograph has been obtained by the OSS.
00:14:20 It's a model of his planned Führer Museum to be built in his hometown of Linz in Austria.
00:14:26 Führer Museum?
00:14:28 It will be one of the biggest in the world.
00:14:30 It's going to take a lot of art to fill that up.
00:14:31 That's exactly right.
00:14:33 We already know that he's stealing art from Amsterdam, from Warsaw, and from Paris.
00:14:37 The French are hiding it, the Germans are finding it, and taking it.
00:14:40 This is why Hitler didn't bomb Paris.
00:14:43 Well, he bombed London.
00:14:44 Yes, I know.
00:14:45 Have they started building?
00:14:48 No, that's the point.
00:14:50 They're stealing the art and hiding it somewhere.
00:14:54 We think they're hiding it in homes in this area and towards the east.
00:14:59 Our boys are right now in Normandy giving them hell, so that means it's our turn next.
00:15:03 Over the Channel and into France.
00:15:06 When?
00:15:08 Soon.
00:15:09 We're going to start with James.
00:15:11 He has a friend in Paris who's the director of the National Museum.
00:15:13 Well, if he's still alive.
00:15:14 If he's still alive, he's going to have some idea of where the French art has been hidden,
00:15:19 and we're going to need that information.
00:15:21 Lieutenant, we've arranged for you to be transported across the Channel to Deauville.
00:15:24 You'll meet a contact named Emil who can get you into Paris.
00:15:27 Well, it's a good thing I'm fluent in French.
00:15:29 Do we get to kill anybody?
00:15:31 I don't know about you guys, but I'd like to kill somebody.
00:15:34 You want to shoot Hitler private?
00:15:36 I wouldn't mind it.
00:15:38 And Richard, if you call me private again, I will take a shot at you.
00:15:42 Okay, so that's it.
00:15:44 We'll be shipping out in the next few days, and although the war is coming to an end,
00:15:48 that doesn't make it any less dangerous.
00:15:50 So walk carefully, take no undue chances, and remember that your lives are more important than a piece of art.
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00:16:40 Hey, Sarge, can you tell us where to find command and control?
00:16:43 Just got here.
00:16:44 Yeah.
00:16:45 Set Brass command post about a quarter mile that way, past KP.
00:16:48 Thanks.
00:16:49 What?
00:16:52 Colonel, if you would just read the orders.
00:17:00 I don't give a shit. I'll tell you what these orders say.
00:17:02 Don't knock out old B-10.
00:17:03 Colonel, they're building.
00:17:04 Do not interrupt me, Lieutenant.
00:17:06 Now, if you think I'm gonna write a letter home to some kid's mom saying her boy's dead
00:17:10 because somebody doesn't want us to take out a church tower, no, sir, I will not.
00:17:14 So have at it.
00:17:16 Anything else?
00:17:17 No, sir.
00:17:22 I think that went well.
00:17:31 Looks like we're walking.
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00:18:11 Don't stand there.
00:18:13 Come in.
00:18:14 What are you doing here?
00:18:20 Looking for you.
00:18:22 Sit down.
00:18:24 Do you know why I'm here?
00:18:35 You have a brother.
00:18:38 Peter, yes?
00:18:41 Yes, you do.
00:18:43 Are you close?
00:18:45 He's my brother.
00:18:49 Why didn't you tell me you fought for the resistance?
00:18:52 He doesn't.
00:18:56 He doesn't now. He was shot this morning.
00:18:59 He was trying to steal a truck,
00:19:01 a truck filled with art work going to Germany,
00:19:04 and he was shot dead.
00:19:08 How do you think he knew about that truck?
00:19:10 You see, Claire,
00:19:20 because you know the museum,
00:19:22 know the collectors,
00:19:24 the art,
00:19:26 you have a value to me.
00:19:28 And yet I have no doubt that if I were to search this apartment,
00:19:31 I would find things that would make me happy.
00:19:34 And yet I have no doubt that if I were to search this apartment,
00:19:37 I would find things that would make our working together impossible.
00:19:41 Shall I?
00:19:45 Do as you wish.
00:19:47 I will.
00:19:51 If I find you interfering, you won't be fired.
00:19:55 You'll be handed over to the SS. Is that clear to you?
00:19:59 I don't want his body.
00:20:01 Then you should swim to the bottom of the sand.
00:20:04 Then you should swim to the bottom of the sand.
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00:20:17 [speaking French]
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00:20:36 You speak English?
00:20:45 Yes.
00:20:46 Speak English.
00:20:47 Okay.
00:20:49 Got a chance of getting a ride in the Les Deux?
00:20:54 Not a chance, lieutenant.
00:20:56 You luck finding some radios?
00:20:58 No, sir.
00:21:00 Got lucky strikes, hash, her boots, size 11.
00:21:03 What size are you?
00:21:05 Nine.
00:21:07 See you next time.
00:21:11 Hey, Sam!
00:21:18 Hey, Sam!
00:21:20 Empty! Hey! Hey!
00:21:22 Hey, lieutenant!
00:21:23 Hey, you were a sight for sore eyes.
00:21:25 Where the hell are you driving?
00:21:26 Ah, that's easy. We're in a hurry to leave town.
00:21:28 I left a few things.
00:21:30 I'm glad to see you didn't get left on the beach.
00:21:32 I know, sir. I got pulled when they found out I could speak German.
00:21:34 You got pulled? What are you, a translator?
00:21:36 No, I'm lost until we get to Germany.
00:21:38 Ah, that's too bad.
00:21:40 Who's your CO?
00:21:43 [car horn honking]
00:21:46 [tires screeching]
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00:21:59 Private?
00:22:05 I'm looking for Major Fielding.
00:22:07 Yes, sir. Just over here.
00:22:09 Major Fielding, sir!
00:22:11 Stokes! Hey, John, how are you?
00:22:13 I wasn't sure we'd find you.
00:22:15 I had to hitch a ride. What have you got?
00:22:17 Look at this. I think this fellow's a Monet.
00:22:19 And that's a premier.
00:22:21 That's why I asked for you.
00:22:23 We took a whole convoy of Germans, hot-footing it out of the non.
00:22:25 A dozen crates filled with these.
00:22:27 A dozen paintings?
00:22:29 A dozen crates.
00:22:31 Sometimes 30 paintings inside.
00:22:33 Can I talk to those Germans?
00:22:36 I don't know. Can you?
00:22:38 Ask them where they got these paintings.
00:22:41 30 more trucks like these.
00:22:45 Ask them again.
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00:22:51 Take care. Good luck.
00:23:11 He said they were going to a town called Siegen.
00:23:13 Siegen?
00:23:15 Yeah, there have been five truckloads taken from there.
00:23:17 Did he say that?
00:23:19 No, he said it.
00:23:21 He is their commander.
00:23:23 Nice fit uniforms.
00:23:25 Goddamn.
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00:23:55 [speaking French]
00:23:57 You know, James,
00:24:09 your French is not good.
00:24:11 Where did you learn it?
00:24:13 Here and there.
00:24:15 Studied in Canada for a while.
00:24:17 Canada?
00:24:19 Montreal.
00:24:21 Oh, no, no.
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00:26:02 Hey, fellas. Look what we found.
00:26:04 Hey. Remember Sam?
00:26:06 Hey, sport. Got yourself a translator.
00:26:08 Good to see you.
00:26:10 I think he hunted my car. Where's Campbell?
00:26:12 Savage shot him.
00:26:15 So now we know it's not random.
00:26:17 It's systematic.
00:26:19 Every single one of those paintings is a masterpiece.
00:26:21 We're all headed to the town of Siegen in Germany.
00:26:26 The Nazis are on the run,
00:26:28 but they're taking everything with them,
00:26:30 so we have to get as close to the front as we can.
00:26:33 Preston, you and Campbell head towards Belgium,
00:26:37 specifically Ghent.
00:26:40 What's in Ghent?
00:26:42 Used to be the altarpiece.
00:26:44 They took the Ghent altarpiece?
00:26:46 I'll go with Garfield.
00:26:48 No, Garfield, you and Jean-Claude
00:26:51 get as close to Germany as you can to the city of Aachen.
00:26:55 We'll leave in the morning.
00:26:57 Why don't you take Sam from Newark with you,
00:27:00 and I'll head up to my old stomping ground, Bruges.
00:27:03 There's Madonna there I used to see when I was young.
00:27:07 Looks like we're gonna be together, buddy.
00:27:11 I think these are German, but they might fit.
00:27:14 That one will do just fine.
00:27:17 Watch this.
00:27:19 Any news of Granger?
00:27:23 Well, word is they liberated Paris,
00:27:26 so we should know something soon.
00:27:29 Turn that knob right there.
00:27:37 Well, I'll be blessed.
00:27:40 Yeah, not just a pretty face.
00:27:42 How's it going, Edison?
00:27:44 Take that radio over there to the boys.
00:27:47 Let's see if this damn thing works.
00:27:49 You bet.
00:27:51 Frank, I wanted to say thanks.
00:27:56 For what?
00:27:58 For not the chance.
00:28:00 Donnie, we've all screwed up on some level.
00:28:04 Yours was just-- just at a high level.
00:28:08 You're here because you're the best man for the job.
00:28:11 Not charity.
00:28:13 A little.
00:28:15 Monuments, man, radio is about to go live.
00:28:22 I hope we play music.
00:28:24 Calling London. Calling London and all the ships at sea.
00:28:27 We read you loud and clear.
00:28:29 How far will this thing reach?
00:28:31 We'll find out tomorrow.
00:28:33 I'll be there.
00:28:35 Are all the fellas there?
00:28:40 They are.
00:28:42 All right, listen up, fellas,
00:28:44 'cause I think you should know the truth as I see it.
00:28:47 This mission is never designed to succeed.
00:28:51 That's, uh--
00:28:53 If they were honest, they would tell us that.
00:28:56 They'd tell us that with this many people dying,
00:28:58 who cares about art?
00:29:00 They're wrong, because it's exactly what we're fighting for--
00:29:04 for our culture and for our way of life.
00:29:09 You can wipe out a generation of people.
00:29:12 You can burn their homes to the ground,
00:29:14 and somehow they'll still come back.
00:29:17 But if you destroy their achievements and their history,
00:29:22 then it's like they never existed.
00:29:25 Just ash floating.
00:29:28 That's what Hitler wants,
00:29:31 and it's the one thing we simply can't allow.
00:29:35 I'll see you in the morning.
00:29:42 Now I'm depressed.
00:29:49 I want to make a toast.
00:29:53 Uh-oh.
00:29:55 Uh-oh.
00:29:58 Um, I think you fellas are...
00:30:03 comme ça.
00:30:05 And I'm proud to be a Monuments man.
00:30:09 When this all broke out,
00:30:12 I wanted to be a flyer pilot-- a fighter pilot.
00:30:16 But I got bad eyes.
00:30:18 My hearing is not good.
00:30:21 Right here is the only way I get into this war.
00:30:26 Now I'm not some New York socialite.
00:30:29 I haven't won any awards like all of you,
00:30:32 but I'm guessing you feel the same.
00:30:36 This is our time.
00:30:38 My country thanks you, and I thank you.
00:30:42 To the Germans.
00:30:44 Present company expected.
00:30:47 To the Monuments men.
00:30:49 To the Monuments men.
00:30:52 You have children?
00:30:56 Uh, two, yeah, a 12-year-old and a 9-year-old.
00:30:59 Boy and girl?
00:31:01 Two girls.
00:31:02 Two girls, hmm.
00:31:04 I know.
00:31:06 I know.
00:31:07 I have a boy, a 17-year-old boy.
00:31:11 He's, um, he's with the resistance up in the north.
00:31:16 In the north?
00:31:18 Yeah.
00:31:19 Rough up there?
00:31:21 Yeah, it's rough.
00:31:23 Hard times.
00:31:30 Yeah, hard times.
00:31:33 You like to fly?
00:31:44 Yeah.
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00:32:15 Am I late?
00:32:35 By about four years.
00:32:37 How are you, James?
00:32:39 Hello, Rene.
00:32:40 How is the art today safe?
00:32:42 The national collection is safe,
00:32:44 but the private collections, they are all gone.
00:32:47 All the private collectives?
00:32:49 All the private Jewish collectors, by decree, are illegitimate.
00:32:53 Karin used this place to shop.
00:32:56 And take them where?
00:32:58 Germany, to their homes.
00:33:01 Well, Rene, the U.S. Army would like to help you get them back.
00:33:08 I'm happy to hear you say that.
00:33:11 Where do we start?
00:33:13 Claire Simone.
00:33:15 Claire Simone?
00:33:34 [sighs]
00:33:36 Oui.
00:33:51 [speaking French]
00:33:53 Can you stop speaking in French?
00:34:15 What language are you speaking?
00:34:19 Well, if it weren't for us, you'd be speaking German.
00:34:23 No.
00:34:25 If it wasn't for you, I might be dead.
00:34:27 But I would still be speaking French.
00:34:30 Okay.
00:34:35 So, how can I help you steal our stolen art?
00:34:39 That's not why I'm here. I'm here to help you get it back.
00:34:42 Yes, to fill your museum.
00:34:44 I'm told you were at the Jus de Pomme during the occupation.
00:34:48 I was.
00:34:50 Well, I'm interested in what you saw there.
00:34:52 Karin came more than 20 times, you know, took whatever he wanted.
00:34:56 Where did they take them?
00:34:58 Who knows?
00:35:00 I think you do know.
00:35:02 Oh, we've been speaking with Rene.
00:35:04 Were you there the whole time?
00:35:06 Of course. I'm a collaborator, haven't you heard?
00:35:10 I helped the Germans steal our art.
00:35:13 Yes.
00:35:15 And that's why you're here?
00:35:17 What do you think?
00:35:19 I think you worked with the resistance.
00:35:21 And I think I can convince them to let you out.
00:35:24 Why?
00:35:26 Do you know where the art was taken?
00:35:28 Who's asking? The curator of the Met?
00:35:31 We put all of the panels in a truck and sent it to Brussels with two priests.
00:35:42 The Germans found them and took them.
00:35:44 May I speak to the priests?
00:35:46 They were shot.
00:35:48 If we're going to find it, we're going to have to jump ahead of the Third Army and get into Germany.
00:35:56 Number one priority, President, you understand?
00:35:59 The Nazis can't keep it.
00:36:01 We'll find it.
00:36:03 I know you will.
00:36:05 Keep your head down.
00:36:06 Will do.
00:36:09 It says the altarpiece is one of the most desired pieces of art.
00:36:14 How did you read all that?
00:36:16 It's in English.
00:36:18 Yeah, I know that. I just wasn't actually aware you could read.
00:36:38 Easy.
00:36:40 So, Sam, when did you leave Germany?
00:36:44 1938.
00:36:46 Yeah, I was 13.
00:36:48 Did your family go with you?
00:36:50 Yeah, my parents.
00:36:52 My grandfather stayed behind.
00:36:54 What city?
00:36:55 Karlsruhe.
00:36:57 Yeah, you know, there's a famous museum there.
00:37:00 Had one of Rembrandt's self-portraits.
00:37:03 You were born to be a monuments man.
00:37:05 I've never seen that painting.
00:37:07 Me neither.
00:37:09 We weren't allowed.
00:37:11 My grandfather would tell me it was because we were too short.
00:37:15 And then war broke out, and all of Europe was too short for Hitler.
00:37:22 Have you heard from your grandfather?
00:37:26 No, not for four years.
00:37:29 He was taken away.
00:37:31 Away where?
00:37:33 Dachau.
00:37:36 [sniffles]
00:37:38 Hey, how's that work?
00:37:48 What's going on?
00:37:58 [footsteps]
00:38:00 This seems to be a bit of a problem.
00:38:11 A bit.
00:38:13 Here's the thought.
00:38:19 We put down our guns.
00:38:23 You go your way.
00:38:25 We go our way.
00:38:27 No hard feelings.
00:38:29 He doesn't speak any English.
00:38:35 Not a word.
00:38:37 Okay.
00:38:40 You're just gonna sit down?
00:38:44 Yeah, I think, why don't we all just sit down for a sec?
00:38:47 Okay.
00:38:49 All right.
00:38:51 Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
00:38:53 Okay.
00:38:55 [footsteps]
00:38:57 [somber music]
00:39:09 ♪ ♪
00:39:16 I don't smoke.
00:39:28 Take a cigarette.
00:39:31 I don't smoke.
00:39:33 Take a goddamn cigarette.
00:39:35 [somber music]
00:39:37 ♪ ♪
00:39:42 Mm.
00:39:44 ♪ ♪
00:39:51 [sniffles]
00:39:53 ♪ ♪
00:40:00 [dog barking in distance]
00:40:03 John Wayne.
00:40:17 John Wayne.
00:40:21 ♪ ♪
00:40:28 [coughs]
00:40:31 Shouldn't we have arrested him or something?
00:40:34 He's not going anywhere.
00:40:37 [speaking French]
00:40:39 [speaking French]
00:40:41 [speaking French]
00:40:43 [speaking French]
00:40:45 [speaking French]
00:40:47 [speaking French]
00:40:49 [speaking French]
00:40:51 [speaking French]
00:40:53 [gunshots]
00:40:55 [gunshots]
00:40:57 ♪ ♪
00:41:04 [gunshot]
00:41:06 Okay.
00:41:08 So one of us has to distract him,
00:41:11 and the other one takes him out.
00:41:14 Sounds like a good plan.
00:41:16 Right.
00:41:18 Okay, I'll take him out.
00:41:20 I'll take him out.
00:41:22 You have a family.
00:41:24 So do you.
00:41:26 ♪ ♪
00:41:30 Okay, you go distract, and I take care of business.
00:41:34 All right.
00:41:37 I've never shot anyone before.
00:41:40 It's easy.
00:41:42 Have you?
00:41:43 I'm about to.
00:41:45 Okay.
00:41:47 I'll shoot.
00:41:49 You go.
00:41:51 [gunshots]
00:41:55 ♪ ♪
00:42:02 [gunshots]
00:42:04 ♪ ♪
00:42:10 [yelps]
00:42:12 ♪ ♪
00:42:19 [gunshot]
00:42:21 ♪ ♪
00:42:48 [speaking French]
00:42:50 [yelping]
00:42:52 Man.
00:42:56 [speaking French]
00:42:58 [speaking French]
00:43:00 [yelping]
00:43:02 [speaking French]
00:43:04 [speaking French]
00:43:06 [speaking French]
00:43:08 [speaking French]
00:43:10 Maybe we keep this to ourselves.
00:43:12 I think that's best.
00:43:14 [yelps]
00:43:17 [footsteps]
00:43:19 Good evening.
00:43:22 Where's your CO?
00:43:24 Colonel Langton, sir.
00:43:25 I'll take you to him.
00:43:26 Follow me.
00:43:27 I'm hoping to speak to Colonel Langton.
00:43:30 Langton here, Lieutenant.
00:43:32 Donald Jeffreys, sir.
00:43:33 How do you do?
00:43:34 Do you have a moment?
00:43:35 Can I tempt you with a cognac?
00:43:37 You could very easily tempt me, sir, but no, thank you.
00:43:40 Lieutenant, are you bringing us bad news?
00:43:42 Not at all, sir, no.
00:43:43 I was simply hoping to get into town.
00:43:45 What town? Bruges?
00:43:46 Bruges.
00:43:47 Why?
00:43:48 Colonel, my job is to protect art
00:43:49 so that when this war is over, there will still be some, you see.
00:43:53 In a cathedral in Bruges is Michelangelo's Madonna and Child,
00:43:57 his only sculpture to leave Italy during his lifetime,
00:44:00 and if it can be helped,
00:44:02 I'd like to see it still standing there tomorrow.
00:44:04 You do have an unusual job, Lieutenant.
00:44:07 Perhaps there is some good news for you.
00:44:09 We're not going into Bruges.
00:44:10 We've made a deal with the mayor.
00:44:13 We won't attack the city, and the Germans are leaving,
00:44:15 so when we get there, we'll resume fighting outside Bruges.
00:44:18 If we catch them, they're running in a fair clip.
00:44:21 Have you seen this, Colonel?
00:44:24 The Germans destroyed Florence when they pulled out,
00:44:26 and they're going to do the same to Bruges.
00:44:28 No, Lieutenant, they're not.
00:44:30 This isn't Italy.
00:44:32 The war is coming to an end,
00:44:33 and these Germans just want to get home.
00:44:35 They've not destroyed any French villages.
00:44:37 They're on the run.
00:44:38 Nevertheless, if you could, let me have two guards to come with me--
00:44:41 The Germans don't have the time, they don't have the explosives,
00:44:44 they don't even have the damn tanks.
00:44:46 No, sir, I will not risk a street-to-street battle.
00:44:49 We will honor our agreement, and when we get to Bruges,
00:44:51 you can finish your job in the cathedral.
00:44:53 Understood?
00:44:55 I understand.
00:44:58 Is there anything else?
00:45:02 No, sir, thank you.
00:45:05 [footsteps]
00:45:08 [suspenseful music]
00:45:11 ♪ ♪
00:45:18 ♪ ♪
00:45:26 [footsteps]
00:45:29 ♪ ♪
00:45:53 [train whistle blows]
00:45:56 ♪ ♪
00:46:03 ♪ ♪
00:46:10 [door opens]
00:46:12 [door closes]
00:46:15 [door closes]
00:46:18 ♪ ♪
00:46:25 [door opens]
00:46:28 ♪ ♪
00:46:54 Any of you speak English?
00:46:58 Are you a Catholic, Lieutenant?
00:47:00 [thunder rumbles]
00:47:03 I am tonight.
00:47:08 Dear Father, weep you might when you hear
00:47:11 of my many adventures with these fine men.
00:47:15 It would remind you of our treasure hunts when I was a boy.
00:47:19 But rather than a whistle or a top,
00:47:22 our prizes are Rembrandts and Rubens.
00:47:26 [footsteps]
00:47:32 It feels odd that in a place with so much death,
00:47:35 I've never felt more alive.
00:47:39 My thoughts soar with the tales these streets could tell
00:47:43 of the Madonna's long journey to Paris
00:47:46 and her triumphant return with the fall of Napoleon.
00:47:50 You can see her porcelain hand gently holding the small boy
00:47:54 as if to guard him from a fate she knew would come.
00:47:58 ♪ ♪
00:48:05 [rain pattering]
00:48:09 I know in a time of war my endeavor must seem small,
00:48:13 and perhaps it is.
00:48:16 But I remain diligent and resolute in my belief,
00:48:19 that great works of art can never belong to any one individual,
00:48:24 at least not in spirit.
00:48:30 The Madonna is as much mine as it was Napoleon's,
00:48:34 and her hand gently guards me from a fate I know will come.
00:48:39 ♪ ♪
00:48:54 Father, I know I've been a great disappointment.
00:48:58 In defense of the indefensible,
00:49:00 my crimes were qualities I found in the bottom of a bottle,
00:49:04 not actions bent on hurting you.
00:49:07 ♪ ♪
00:49:14 [gunshots]
00:49:17 ♪ ♪
00:49:29 I long for the chance to be back on that pedestal
00:49:32 you so proudly placed me.
00:49:35 Perhaps here I can make you proud again,
00:49:39 here at the foot of our Madonna.
00:49:42 I am humbled and grateful
00:49:47 and longing for home and rest.
00:49:53 I'm in great need of rest.
00:49:56 I'll write when I can.
00:49:58 Cheers and Godspeed, Donald.
00:50:02 ♪ ♪
00:50:09 You'll see the truth of this family, I guess, Caesar.
00:50:17 We will.
00:50:21 Thank you.
00:50:24 Lieutenant, I told him not to go, but he was hell-bent.
00:50:30 Remember he took the Madonna?
00:50:32 That's right.
00:50:35 Well, I better get her back.
00:50:38 What have you got?
00:50:54 Yeah, the vicar gave us the town of Merkers.
00:50:57 Said they might have stored some pieces there.
00:51:00 Merkers?
00:51:01 Yeah, M-E-R-K-E-R-S, Merkers.
00:51:05 Got it.
00:51:07 Any word from Granger?
00:51:09 Nothing yet.
00:51:11 All hell's breaking loose here.
00:51:13 They're not gonna let us through.
00:51:15 We're gonna hold up at St. Fith.
00:51:17 We'll meet you there.
00:51:21 Hell of a thing about Donald.
00:51:25 It's a hell of a thing.
00:51:29 What is all this?
00:51:40 People's lives.
00:51:44 What people?
00:51:48 Jews.
00:51:53 [♪♪♪]
00:51:57 [♪♪♪]
00:52:25 [knocking]
00:52:29 [door creaking]
00:52:33 [door creaking]
00:52:59 They're gone.
00:53:02 Well, you get around.
00:53:11 And the spy, remember?
00:53:15 They're not coming back.
00:53:19 Well, Claire, my job is to find Art and return it.
00:53:23 And this seems like a good place to start.
00:53:28 [♪♪♪]
00:53:31 [♪♪♪]
00:53:54 [♪♪♪]
00:53:57 [♪♪♪]
00:54:00 [♪♪♪]
00:54:04 [♪♪♪]
00:54:07 Oh, that's good.
00:54:28 That's really good.
00:54:31 [♪♪♪]
00:54:34 What if that doesn't beat all?
00:54:45 Just because we're at war, doesn't mean one can't eat well.
00:55:00 What was that?
00:55:02 It's a message from home.
00:55:05 Hmm.
00:55:07 Hmm.
00:55:09 Oh.
00:55:11 I may have to confiscate a phonograph.
00:55:14 Okay.
00:55:16 [♪♪♪]
00:55:23 [♪♪♪]
00:55:26 [♪♪♪]
00:55:29 [♪♪♪]
00:55:32 [♪♪♪]
00:55:35 [♪♪♪]
00:55:38 Doc!
00:55:40 Sir!
00:55:42 Over here.
00:55:44 We found him on the side of the road.
00:55:46 Took one in the chest, and he's bleeding like hell from his leg.
00:55:48 We put a tourniquet on it.
00:55:50 Let's get this shirt off and see how bad it is.
00:55:53 You're gonna be fine, son. You're gonna be just fine.
00:55:56 Can we get some morphine over here? What's his name?
00:55:59 I don't know.
00:56:01 [♪♪♪]
00:56:04 [♪♪♪]
00:56:07 [♪♪♪]
00:56:10 Hey, Papa. Merry Christmas.
00:56:13 I've got a couple of little monsters here who want to say hi.
00:56:16 Can you say "Merry Christmas, Grandpa"?
00:56:18 Merry Christmas, Grandpa.
00:56:20 Merry Christmas, Grandpa.
00:56:22 [giggling]
00:56:24 All right, ready? And...
00:56:28 ♪ Have yourself a merry little Christmas ♪
00:56:36 ♪ Let your heart be light ♪
00:56:43 ♪ From now on our troubles will be out of sight ♪
00:56:53 [choking]
00:56:56 ♪ Have yourself a merry little Christmas ♪
00:57:02 You can take that tourniquet off the tent.
00:57:04 ♪ Keep the yuletide gay ♪
00:57:09 ♪ From now on our troubles will be miles away ♪
00:57:16 Is he gonna be okay?
00:57:18 He's gonna be fine.
00:57:20 Can you get the chaplain?
00:57:22 Morphine?
00:57:24 I'll get the chaplain.
00:57:27 ♪ Happy golden days of your faithful friends ♪
00:57:37 ♪ Who are dear to us gather near to us once more ♪
00:57:50 ♪ Through the years we all will be together ♪
00:57:57 ♪ If the fates allow ♪
00:58:03 ♪ Hang a shining star upon the highest bough ♪
00:58:13 ♪ And have yourself a merry little Christmas now ♪
00:58:28 Well, what the hell's she afraid of?
00:58:36 Oh, she's afraid we're gonna keep it, like the Russians.
00:58:39 The Russians are keeping the Ark?
00:58:41 They lost 20 million people, Frank.
00:58:44 They've commissioned a trophy brigade to collect and keep all the stolen Ark,
00:58:50 to make reparations.
00:58:52 Trophy brigade, you gotta love a snappy nickname.
00:58:55 You like monuments, man.
00:58:59 I got a letter from Donald's father.
00:59:01 Said I should be proud of helping Donald get his dignity back.
00:59:09 I don't feel very proud.
00:59:12 He asked if I found the Madonna. I don't even know where to look.
00:59:19 We need to know what Claire knows, James.
00:59:25 I'm close, Frank.
00:59:29 Okay.
00:59:32 And now we got the Russians.
00:59:38 (speaking in Russian)
00:59:41 (speaking in Russian)
00:59:44 ♪ ♪
00:59:49 (speaking in Russian)
00:59:52 ♪ ♪
00:59:57 (speaking in Russian)
01:00:00 ♪ ♪
01:00:07 ♪ ♪
01:00:17 Look at this. Do you know what this is?
01:00:19 No.
01:00:20 It's a directive, the Nero Decree.
01:00:22 It is written by Hitler, signed by Hitler.
01:00:24 It says if he dies or if Germany falls, they're to destroy everything.
01:00:31 Everything.
01:00:34 Where do they take the art?
01:00:37 Germany.
01:00:39 You understand I'm here to help you.
01:00:41 I understand you are, but you are not in Germany.
01:00:44 My men are.
01:00:45 I don't know your men.
01:00:47 You're gonna have to figure out somebody to trust.
01:00:49 Yes, James, you tell me who.
01:00:53 (motorcycle engine rumbling)
01:01:03 It's cooking.
01:01:05 Rice!
01:01:07 It's called the Nero Decree.
01:01:09 What?
01:01:10 Granger took it off a train full of art headed for Germany.
01:01:13 It says if Hitler dies, they're to destroy bridges, train tracks, archives, art.
01:01:19 Jesus.
01:01:20 So we think most of the art went to Segan?
01:01:23 We know it went through Segan and Markers.
01:01:25 That's a lot of art to hide in a couple of towns.
01:01:27 What are you eating?
01:01:28 Homemade jerky.
01:01:29 Want some?
01:01:30 No.
01:01:31 You and Jean-Claude make your way to Markers, and then we'll go to Segan.
01:01:36 And we have to hope no one kills Hitler.
01:01:40 I never thought I'd say that.
01:01:43 We'll meet up in Nuremberg.
01:01:46 Oh.
01:01:47 Oh, God.
01:01:50 (music playing)
01:01:58 Hey!
01:01:59 Thank you.
01:02:00 Okay.
01:02:01 I'll see you soon.
01:02:04 Oh.
01:02:06 That looks really painful.
01:02:08 (mumbling)
01:02:11 So you're artists, huh?
01:02:12 Oh, no, we're collectors from New York.
01:02:14 Yeah, this guy's an architect.
01:02:16 Oh.
01:02:17 I always wanted to see New York.
01:02:19 Greatest city in the world.
01:02:21 Have you ever seen Munich?
01:02:23 No, but we will soon.
01:02:25 (mumbling)
01:02:30 What did he say?
01:02:32 What's that?
01:02:33 He said not to make me angry.
01:02:35 (mumbling)
01:02:38 Okay, okay.
01:02:39 Let's go.
01:02:40 (bell ringing)
01:02:47 I have a nephew who studied art in Paris.
01:02:50 Yeah, he lives a few miles from here.
01:02:53 He may be able to help you.
01:02:54 Is he a soldier?
01:02:55 He was a soldier.
01:02:57 Like you, but he's a good boy.
01:02:59 Oh, I'm sure you're all innocent.
01:03:02 Yeah.
01:03:03 (mumbling)
01:03:06 Okay, okay.
01:03:07 So...
01:03:08 (screaming)
01:03:10 (music playing)
01:03:18 Hey, come on!
01:03:19 (music playing)
01:03:27 Helga, we have guests.
01:03:29 (music playing)
01:03:39 So how long were you in Paris?
01:03:42 You studied in Paris?
01:03:44 Yes, two years.
01:03:45 My wife and I love Paris.
01:03:47 (speaking in foreign language)
01:03:53 These are beautiful paintings.
01:03:54 I wish.
01:03:55 Just copies, Cezanne, and Wahl.
01:04:00 They're good.
01:04:07 So where did you study art?
01:04:09 Harvard.
01:04:11 Society for Contemporary Art.
01:04:14 They're looking for artifacts.
01:04:16 They want to protect the historic pieces.
01:04:19 It's an honorable thing in a time of war.
01:04:23 Well, we think the SS took the great pieces of art
01:04:26 out through France and are hiding it.
01:04:29 Yeah, but I told them you may be able to help, Herman.
01:04:35 Well, I wasn't SS.
01:04:37 I was a soldier like you.
01:04:38 If I can help you in any way...
01:04:41 Do you know a collector named Rothschild?
01:04:43 Rothschild?
01:04:45 One of the greatest art collections in the world?
01:04:47 He's French, huh?
01:04:48 Jewish?
01:04:49 No, no, I don't know him.
01:04:56 Does your wife speak English?
01:04:59 No, no.
01:05:00 Good.
01:05:06 The plaque of the Cezanne says Rothschild.
01:05:21 It was a gift.
01:05:24 Do you know Renoir, too?
01:05:50 Hitler?
01:06:00 Hal Hitler.
01:06:15 Hey, Private.
01:06:17 Where's Segan?
01:06:19 In a minute, Lieutenant.
01:06:35 It should be this turn.
01:06:37 Who the hell knows?
01:06:39 Could have been the last one.
01:06:42 Well, if we get to a bell tower, we've gone too far.
01:06:46 What do you think?
01:06:49 I don't think we should go any further down this road.
01:07:13 Look at him.
01:07:15 He's a beauty.
01:07:16 He's a runner.
01:07:19 Hey, my friend.
01:07:21 Hey, my big fat father.
01:07:22 Come here.
01:07:23 Come here.
01:07:25 I even got a thing for you.
01:07:30 Offer him a cigarette.
01:07:33 You want a cigarette?
01:07:37 I guess he doesn't smoke.
01:08:06 Drunk Lord?
01:08:26 I don't know.
01:08:54 Goddamn it.
01:09:01 Goddamn it.
01:09:08 Stop!
01:09:09 Where am I?
01:09:10 I can't see.
01:09:11 Wait!
01:09:12 Stop!
01:09:13 I'm breathing like a son of a bitch.
01:09:14 I must wait to get killed.
01:09:35 Please!
01:09:36 When we first started this mission, there was some question as to whether we could really call ourselves soldiers.
01:09:42 Were we risking as much as these young men fighting and dying?
01:09:47 And I suppose it was fair to ask.
01:09:50 Careful.
01:09:51 Hold on to this.
01:09:52 My wife gave it to me.
01:09:53 I don't want to get blood on it.
01:09:56 Drunk Lord, you hang on to it right now.
01:10:00 We are no longer observers to war.
01:10:04 We're active participants.
01:10:06 Subject to the same heartache as the rest of these soldiers.
01:10:18 When we lost Donald Jeffries, we earned the right to wear the uniform.
01:10:24 Now we've lost our second man.
01:10:28 From the beginning, I told you that no piece of art was worth a man's life.
01:10:33 But these last months have proved me wrong.
01:10:37 This is our history, and it's not to be stolen or destroyed.
01:10:41 It's to be held up and admired, as are these brave men.
01:10:48 And now we owe it to them to finish the job.
01:10:54 Walter, what say you head stateside, get some R&R?
01:10:57 We'll meet up with you later.
01:10:59 If it's all the same to you, I'd like to finish this.
01:11:02 That'd be fine.
01:11:04 All right, let's take a look where we are.
01:11:07 Stokes, I got this off an SS officer who was stationed in Paris.
01:11:11 It's a map. He had a farmhouse full of stolen art.
01:11:17 I don't understand. Seagans?
01:11:20 Seagans, we were there. There's nothing there.
01:11:23 Markers? Markers.
01:11:26 They're not train routes.
01:11:28 Are they airfields?
01:11:30 No. They're in Salzburg.
01:11:33 Sir, that's not Salzburg. Salz means salt. It's a salt mine.
01:11:41 Uh, thallium is potassium.
01:11:45 Each town has a symbol next to it.
01:11:48 Berndtwerde is a potassium mine. Merck is a salt mine.
01:11:52 Uh, Althaussee, salt mine. Seagans...
01:11:56 Copper.
01:11:59 Huh.
01:12:02 There's a copper mine in Seagans.
01:12:05 [♪♪♪]
01:12:09 [♪♪♪]
01:12:13 [♪♪♪]
01:12:16 [♪♪♪]
01:12:27 [♪♪♪]
01:12:55 [♪♪♪]
01:12:58 [♪♪♪]
01:13:01 [♪♪♪]
01:13:04 [♪♪♪]
01:13:15 [♪♪♪]
01:13:24 [♪♪♪]
01:13:27 [whistles]
01:13:49 Dear James, yesterday we found 16,000 pieces of stolen art...
01:13:54 ...buried in a German copper mine.
01:13:57 It seems the Nazis took better care of paintings than they did people.
01:14:01 There was no sign of the Madonna that cost Donny his life.
01:14:04 But maybe we'll have better luck in the next mine in the town of Merkers.
01:14:09 Enclosed are your transfer orders.
01:14:11 We'll need you here as we've lost both Jeffries and Jean-Claude.
01:14:15 Safe travels.
01:14:18 [♪♪♪]
01:14:21 Bonjour, monsieur.
01:14:36 Bonjour.
01:14:38 May I offer you a coffee?
01:14:40 I'm not sure.
01:14:42 A café.
01:14:46 I almost didn't recognize you.
01:14:49 My hair?
01:14:51 No. I've just-- I've never seen you smile.
01:14:54 Well, James, it's April in Paris. Haven't you heard?
01:14:58 They write songs about it.
01:15:00 Is that so?
01:15:03 Tell you were shopping for your wife?
01:15:05 For my wife?
01:15:07 Every woman loves French parfum.
01:15:09 Even French women?
01:15:11 Bien sûr. Especially French women.
01:15:14 Do you write to your wife every day?
01:15:18 No.
01:15:20 I see. But I do write.
01:15:23 Are you a good husband?
01:15:26 I like to think so.
01:15:28 Paris, at night, finds a lot of good husbands.
01:15:32 Out.
01:15:34 Well, it's war.
01:15:37 It's Paris.
01:15:43 Sardines.
01:15:46 Crackers.
01:15:50 And some kind of potted meat.
01:15:52 Now you're having a party?
01:15:54 No. No, stocking up.
01:15:58 My orders came through last night.
01:16:02 I'm heading east.
01:16:05 Germany?
01:16:09 Markers. There's a mine there. That's where I'll meet the men.
01:16:13 I was just reading about your men.
01:16:16 They found art.
01:16:18 A lot of art.
01:16:20 And they returned it.
01:16:22 What they could.
01:16:24 We still don't know who a lot of it belongs to.
01:16:28 When do you leave?
01:16:31 I leave in the morning.
01:16:35 Then we should celebrate tonight.
01:16:40 This is my address.
01:16:45 You bring the potted meat.
01:16:48 I'll bring the wine.
01:16:52 What's the attire?
01:16:58 Formal, of course.
01:17:00 Formal, of course. That's what I thought.
01:17:03 Formal, of course. That's what I thought.
01:17:07 Come in.
01:17:24 Come in.
01:17:27 You weren't kidding.
01:17:37 I never kid.
01:17:40 This is the best I have.
01:17:43 Why don't you pour the wine?
01:17:46 I brought some things. I brought some cheese, some brie cheese.
01:17:51 Here. Very French.
01:17:54 I cooked a hen.
01:17:57 A hen?
01:17:59 Yes.
01:18:01 It should be ready soon.
01:18:05 Here. Put this on.
01:18:10 You know, in France,
01:18:14 if you were given an invitation to a formal party,
01:18:17 you dress accordingly.
01:18:21 It matches my eyes.
01:18:25 Then you may keep it.
01:18:29 Merci.
01:18:31 Rosenberg, Goering, Loese, von Beer.
01:18:35 Now, these are the key figures in the ERR,
01:18:38 in the staff for special purposes.
01:18:41 They started with the Jewish collectors in 1940.
01:18:45 Is this Stahl?
01:18:47 The SS farmer.
01:18:49 Farmer.
01:18:51 Here he is, with Goering,
01:18:53 expecting art to be stolen and shipped to Germany.
01:18:59 Most of the pieces they would photograph, then take.
01:19:03 And they would send Hitler albums filled with the stolen artwork.
01:19:08 In the modern masters, you know, like Picasso,
01:19:11 Clay, Max Ernst, they're just burned in the yard.
01:19:16 There's hundreds of paintings.
01:19:19 And you believe these paintings are in the mines?
01:19:24 No.
01:19:26 None of these.
01:19:30 [footsteps]
01:19:33 This is all I have, James.
01:19:45 This is my life.
01:19:48 I understand.
01:19:50 This is every piece of art that came through the Giro d'Epoque.
01:19:55 I have kept three manifest receipts,
01:19:59 letters for every single piece.
01:20:02 Who it belonged to, who took it, where they took it.
01:20:06 I kept a colored mark here for every piece to match this ledger.
01:20:10 Jesus Christ.
01:20:13 I'm giving it to you.
01:20:16 It's your responsibility now.
01:20:20 I understand.
01:20:23 There's a castle in the Bavarian Alps, Neuschwanstein.
01:20:28 You should find most of the art there.
01:20:32 Thank you, Claire.
01:20:34 You tell them Claire Simone says hello when you get there.
01:20:38 I'll do just that.
01:20:49 You know, I'm out of wine, but I have cognac.
01:20:54 That's a girl.
01:21:00 You could stay.
01:21:03 With Faris.
01:21:10 You know.
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01:21:41 I do love my tie.
01:21:45 [♪♪♪]
01:21:48 [indistinct chatter]
01:22:00 [engine rumbling]
01:22:03 Say, fellas.
01:22:25 Whoa!
01:22:27 Welcome back, sir.
01:22:30 How was vacation?
01:22:32 We're Stokes.
01:22:36 [footsteps]
01:22:39 She's not here, is she?
01:23:00 Who?
01:23:04 The Madonna.
01:23:07 Not here, not in the Seegan.
01:23:10 She'll turn up.
01:23:12 I'm not so sure.
01:23:15 O'Donnell was so proud of what we're doing here.
01:23:20 He was proud to be a part of it.
01:23:24 There will never be a thousand-year Reich.
01:23:30 No fatherland.
01:23:33 No Führer Museum.
01:23:36 If Jean-Claude O'Donnell had something to do with that, well...
01:23:43 I guess it's okay.
01:23:46 I just have some unfinished business.
01:23:50 We'll find her.
01:23:52 Yeah.
01:23:54 He really wanted it all.
01:24:01 He wanted everything.
01:24:04 [engine rumbling]
01:24:09 Private, what's that sign say?
01:24:12 Uh, storage.
01:24:14 See if there are any lanterns in there.
01:24:16 Yes, sir.
01:24:18 [door slams]
01:24:26 [engine starts]
01:24:29 [engine stops]
01:24:31 You okay in there?
01:24:40 Sam?
01:24:46 [footsteps]
01:24:48 [metal clanging]
01:25:00 [engine starts]
01:25:07 [engine starts]
01:25:12 [engine stops]
01:25:14 [engine starts]
01:25:16 There is some 1,200 feet below the ground in a salt mine in Merkers, Germany,
01:25:30 RGIs discovered over 100 tons of gold bullion,
01:25:33 the entirety of Germany's reserve.
01:25:35 A crushing blow to Hitler.
01:25:37 Grand news indeed, and congratulations to Generals Patton, Bradley, and Eisenhower.
01:25:43 The Army may not care much about art,
01:25:51 but they sure as shit care about gold.
01:25:55 Private, give me a hand.
01:26:05 Yes, sir.
01:26:07 I don't think you've been properly introduced.
01:26:12 Sam, that's your neighbor, Mr. Rembrandt.
01:26:16 You tell your grandfather when you see him.
01:26:22 Nice to meet you.
01:26:25 Hey, you got us a couple of trucks.
01:26:30 Do I want to know how?
01:26:32 [laughs]
01:26:35 [footsteps]
01:26:37 [tense music]
01:26:39 [explosion]
01:27:00 [explosion]
01:27:02 [explosion]
01:27:07 [truck engine]
01:27:17 [truck engine]
01:27:24 [truck engine]
01:27:26 A lot of files. Looks like they were burning records.
01:27:35 It's a bunch of junk. An old pot.
01:27:38 Hey, Stokes?
01:27:39 Yeah?
01:27:40 Can you come in here for a minute?
01:27:42 Yeah.
01:27:51 What have you got?
01:27:53 Stop, stop. Stop.
01:27:56 I seem to have stepped on a landmine of some sort.
01:28:00 Why would you do something like that?
01:28:04 It was a slow day.
01:28:06 Well, I wouldn't move.
01:28:09 I'd like to at some point.
01:28:10 Hey, Campbell, Garfield, get in here for a minute.
01:28:12 What are they going to do?
01:28:13 They're architects.
01:28:14 So they know something about explosives?
01:28:15 That or sabbats.
01:28:16 What do you got?
01:28:17 Well, they just burned the heck in here.
01:28:19 Everybody just stay where they are.
01:28:21 Looks like the lieutenant here is standing on an unexploded mine.
01:28:25 Why would you do that?
01:28:26 I asked him the same thing.
01:28:27 He did.
01:28:29 Well, you're going to have to step off of it eventually.
01:28:37 Well, eventually, yes.
01:28:39 And either the mine is so damaged from the fire that it's a dud.
01:28:44 How likely is that?
01:28:47 Most likely.
01:28:49 But if it's not, there will probably be a sizable explosion.
01:28:56 How much do you weigh?
01:29:12 175.
01:29:14 [CAMPBELL SIGHS]
01:29:16 Grad school, I was 175.
01:29:22 Now what?
01:29:34 Well, if we did this right, you just step off.
01:29:40 [CAMPBELL SIGHS]
01:29:42 Okay, well, I would say you, uh, fellas, head to the exit.
01:29:51 I think I'm just going to hang around and keep you company.
01:29:54 It's not necessary, Frank.
01:29:56 I think it is.
01:29:58 Fellas, I'm not going anywhere.
01:30:01 I'll be fine right here.
01:30:03 Yeah, what the hell.
01:30:08 Okay, James, that's how it's going to be.
01:30:11 Well, on the off chance that this thing blows us sky high...
01:30:20 ...been an honor serving with you all.
01:30:24 Same here. Agreed.
01:30:27 Okay, so I'll just count to three and step off.
01:30:32 Good.
01:30:33 Take your time.
01:30:36 [SIGHS]
01:30:38 One.
01:30:48 [GUNSHOT]
01:30:49 [GRUNTING]
01:30:50 God damn it!
01:30:51 God! Why?
01:30:52 Good.
01:30:54 What the hell happened to two and three?
01:30:59 I panicked.
01:31:00 I told you it was a dud.
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01:31:33 Picasso.
01:31:56 [♪♪♪]
01:31:59 Is that gold?
01:32:10 It's from teeth.
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01:33:52 [BIRDS CAWING]
01:33:55 It's the Rodin.
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01:34:15 [DOOR CLOSES]
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01:35:13 Altosi!
01:35:33 The Gunther altar piece is in the mine at Altosi.
01:35:36 What?
01:35:37 It's right here. Look at the date.
01:35:39 -What'd you find? -Tab, give us a hand.
01:35:41 What is it?
01:35:43 It was stored there a year ago.
01:35:48 How do you know?
01:35:50 -It says nothing after that. -Still there.
01:35:53 Wanna go get it?
01:35:58 Give that Claire a big kiss.
01:36:02 She'd like that.
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01:36:07 Hey, Sarge?
01:36:22 We're trying to get to Altosi's day.
01:36:24 -Keep going. -That way.
01:36:26 -Where are you fellas headed? -Home.
01:36:28 Germany surrendered. War's over.
01:36:30 -No kidding? -Yeah.
01:36:32 Isn't there supposed to be a parade or something?
01:36:34 Probably not in Germany.
01:36:36 Yeah, right.
01:36:38 [HORN HONKING]
01:36:47 Jesus Christ, they blew the mine.
01:36:52 Are there any other openings?
01:36:54 Two others, all blown to shit.
01:36:56 Figured they stored their armaments in here, then blew everything up before we could get 'em.
01:36:58 -You gave the order. The war's over. -You can ask him.
01:37:00 Caught a Kraut named Wegner hiding in town.
01:37:02 Sam, why don't you and Savitz find some locals, see if you can get a diagram of the mine.
01:37:05 Frank, Walter and I can go look at those other two entrances.
01:37:07 Okay.
01:37:08 -Come on. -Captain, can I talk to that Kraut?
01:37:10 Sure, Captain.
01:37:12 -Buy me a shoes? -Yeah.
01:37:22 [SIGHS]
01:37:24 -I'm told you speak English. -I do.
01:37:36 -Would you like a cigarette? -Don't smoke.
01:37:39 -I'd like to ask you a few questions. -So why are you here?
01:37:45 Why'd you blow the mine?
01:37:50 What was in the mine?
01:37:52 Salt, I think.
01:37:55 -You know the war is over. -Congratulations.
01:37:59 We believe that there are pieces of art in that mine that we've been tasked to find.
01:38:07 Would you take 'em out?
01:38:09 What will you offer me for my answer?
01:38:12 As you say, the war is over.
01:38:15 I followed my orders, I've committed no crime. According to the Geneva Conventions, I will be released and sent home.
01:38:23 I was told that before you were sent here, you ran one of those camps.
01:38:30 -Who told you that? -A little bird.
01:38:35 -You're not Jewish, Lieutenant. -No.
01:38:40 Then you should thank me.
01:38:43 [SIGHS]
01:38:45 You know I don't smoke either.
01:38:54 My first cigarette.
01:38:57 [SMOOCHES]
01:39:00 I want to remember this moment.
01:39:05 I'm gonna go home soon.
01:39:10 Got a nice apartment in New York on the Upper West Side.
01:39:13 There's a deli down the street called Sid's.
01:39:17 Every morning, I'll walk there and I get a cup of coffee and a bagel and read the newspaper.
01:39:26 I think about it every day that I'm here. It'll be the first place I go when I get stateside.
01:39:32 I'm gonna be sitting there eating one of Sid Melman's toasted onion bagels and reading a tiny article in the New York Times, page...
01:39:42 18.
01:39:45 It says that you, Colonel Begner, were hanged for your crimes you committed during the war.
01:39:50 You were buried in an unmarked grave.
01:39:53 And then I'll think about my cigarette.
01:40:00 And I'll think about you sitting there with that stupid look on your face.
01:40:05 I'll finish my coffee, leave the paper for Sid to wrap fish in...
01:40:16 I'll never think of you again.
01:40:20 Sure you don't want that cigarette?
01:40:30 No.
01:40:32 The Germans didn't blow it! The local miners did!
01:40:46 They found out the Nazis planned and they sealed all the mine entrances to stop them.
01:40:50 We can dig our way in.
01:40:51 How long will that take?
01:40:52 A day or two if we get these miners to help us.
01:40:55 You might want to move quicker than that. We've got orders to pull out tonight.
01:40:58 What are the orders?
01:40:59 Top brass.
01:41:01 This territory goes to the Russians. They're making their way south now.
01:41:04 They should be here tomorrow.
01:41:05 Tomorrow?
01:41:07 Maybe sooner.
01:41:09 Do you have any explosives?
01:41:13 Here we go! Everybody down!
01:41:22 Maybe I should do this?
01:41:29 What do you know about explosives?
01:41:31 Nothing.
01:41:33 Okay.
01:41:35 Let's go!
01:41:41 Move!
01:41:43 Move!
01:41:45 Move!
01:41:47 Move!
01:41:49 Move!
01:41:51 Move!
01:41:53 Move!
01:41:55 Move!
01:41:57 Move!
01:41:59 Move!
01:42:01 Move!
01:42:04 Move!
01:42:06 Move!
01:42:08 Move!
01:42:10 Move!
01:42:12 Move!
01:42:14 Move!
01:42:16 Move!
01:42:45 We're missing one.
01:42:47 You've got to be kidding me.
01:42:48 We're missing a goddamn panel!
01:42:51 You have to go, fellas! Unless you speak Russian!
01:43:10 We covered all this area.
01:43:12 Yeah, we didn't look here.
01:43:14 We did!
01:43:15 We didn't look here. This is us right now.
01:43:17 And this is where we have to go.
01:43:18 This is this!
01:43:20 No, this is where we are right now.
01:43:22 And this is where we didn't look.
01:43:23 We were here, we went over here, we went over here.
01:43:25 Where did we go? We didn't go here.
01:43:27 We didn't go there.
01:43:29 Yeah, we've got to... This, this!
01:43:31 Give me a hand, will you?
01:43:33 What?
01:43:35 You are going to miss me so much when this is over.
01:43:41 I doubt it.
01:43:43 I doubt it.
01:43:45 Okay.
01:43:51 Right now, you wish that German had shot you.
01:44:02 I do.
01:44:04 Come on, let's go kill him!
01:44:12 You fellas get out of here now, I'm not kidding!
01:44:14 We're going after Stokes.
01:44:16 Be right behind you, gambler!
01:44:18 Stokes!
01:44:24 Frank, we've got to go!
01:44:30 Go!
01:44:32 Stokes!
01:44:48 Stokes!
01:44:52 Stokes!
01:44:54 Stokes!
01:44:56 Stokes!
01:44:58 Stokes!
01:45:00 Stokes!
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01:45:44 Let's get out of here.
01:45:46 Hey!
01:45:53 Hey! Hey! We've got to go!
01:45:57 Give me a hand!
01:45:58 No, no, Frank, we've got to go!
01:45:59 Give me a hand!
01:46:01 Holy shit!
01:46:04 Come on! Give me a hand!
01:46:06 Holy shit!
01:46:07 Stokes!
01:46:08 Frank, get out of here!
01:46:10 Jesus!
01:46:11 We've got to get out of here!
01:46:12 Give me a hand!
01:46:14 Holy shit!
01:46:16 You just sat there.
01:46:17 I did.
01:46:18 [GRUNTS]
01:46:19 You can add this to the long list of Hitler's failures.
01:46:30 He tried to take something that could never be his.
01:46:33 The story of our lives painted on canvas or etched in stone.
01:46:40 With the Russians bearing down on us,
01:46:42 we left Altaise with some 3,000 pieces,
01:46:44 including the Ghent Altarpiece and the Bruges Madonna and Child.
01:46:49 We did leave something for our Russian friends to take back to Leningrad.
01:47:07 We headed northwest, so Abbots and Campbell flew the altarpiece to Belgium.
01:47:11 It was displayed in Brussels and then returned to the chapel in Saint-Pauvre.
01:47:17 With Second Lieutenant James Granger,
01:47:29 several trainloads of French art found in a castle in Bavaria were returned to Paris.
01:47:37 [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
01:47:39 Thank you, James.
01:47:47 Everything from paintings to sculptures, tapestries, even jewelry, is being returned.
01:48:01 It is the greatest collection of private art in the history of the world.
01:48:06 We also found 5,000 church bells, 300 trolley cars, 3 million books and thousands of Torahs.
01:48:15 In all, the numbers are staggering.
01:48:20 There were over 5 million pieces recovered.
01:48:24 [TAPE RECORDER CLICKING]
01:48:26 There are still, of course, many great works that have gone missing.
01:48:39 Raphael's portrait of a young man, for instance, and with your permission,
01:48:44 I'd like to keep looking for him.
01:48:46 Well, Lieutenant, let me have a talk with Secretary Stimson here, and I'll give you an answer.
01:48:52 Thank you, sir.
01:48:53 And you lost men on this mission, Lieutenant?
01:48:57 Yes, sir. Two men. A Frenchman named Jean-Claude Clermont.
01:49:00 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
01:49:03 And a Brit named Donald Jeffries, who lost his life saving the Bruges Madonna and Child.
01:49:15 Lieutenant Stokes, I have one question. You said the Madonna.
01:49:21 Yes, sir. The Bruges Madonna.
01:49:22 Right. Michelangelo made it, right?
01:49:24 Yes, sir.
01:49:25 And you lost a man trying to save it.
01:49:27 Donald Jeffries.
01:49:28 You think it was worth it? For a piece of art?
01:49:32 Do you think Jeffries would say it was worth it, if he could speak?
01:49:36 If he could speak?
01:49:39 I think he would.
01:49:44 All right, then. How about you, Lieutenant?
01:49:49 You were in charge, and this gets to the heart of the matter.
01:49:52 You think 30 years from now, anyone's going to remember that these men died for a piece of art?
01:50:00 Yeah.
01:50:14 Yeah.
01:50:15 You ready?
01:50:27 Yeah.
01:50:28 Let's get out of here.
01:50:30 Okay.
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