WEBVTT 00:01:05.521 --> 00:01:16.521 ..:: Presented By ZarFilm Website ::.. ‏.:: www.bolboljan.net ::. 00:01:18.245 --> 00:01:19.437 Claude. 00:01:19.955 --> 00:01:21.557 Put these clothes on. 00:01:55.324 --> 00:01:56.767 Take only the back roads. 00:01:56.825 --> 00:01:59.410 The Germans are coming from the east, so head south to Brussels. 00:01:59.411 --> 00:02:02.192 - Yes, Father. - God be with you, Claude. 00:03:22.994 --> 00:03:26.064 Champagne... very nice. 00:03:26.289 --> 00:03:28.562 You must join me, Doctor Stahl. 00:03:29.876 --> 00:03:32.525 - Get another glass. - With pleasure. 00:03:37.259 --> 00:03:38.406 Claire? 00:03:38.844 --> 00:03:40.787 We need another champagne glass. 00:04:06.163 --> 00:04:08.106 It's for Stahl. 00:04:16.798 --> 00:04:20.072 This one... and this one... 00:04:20.844 --> 00:04:22.571 to Carinhall. 00:04:30.228 --> 00:04:36.381 And this will be a present for the Fuhrer in Berchtesgaden. 00:04:39.029 --> 00:04:40.426 What else, Doctor Stahl? 00:05:07.557 --> 00:05:09.830 This is da Vinci's Last Supper. 00:05:10.477 --> 00:05:14.753 The British bombers leveled three walls and a roof. 00:05:15.732 --> 00:05:20.178 This is Monte Cassino, founded in 529 by Saint Benedict. 00:05:20.237 --> 00:05:21.930 This is in February. 00:05:22.739 --> 00:05:24.637 This is Monte Cassino in March, 00:05:24.699 --> 00:05:29.350 after we dropped 20 tons of explosives on it. 00:05:29.704 --> 00:05:33.809 Mr. President, the simple fact is that we are at a point in this war 00:05:33.875 --> 00:05:38.151 that is most dangerous to the greatest historical achievements known to man. 00:05:38.213 --> 00:05:42.363 But, Professor Stokes, understand that this is war. 00:05:42.425 --> 00:05:44.243 And that lives are lost, 00:05:44.302 --> 00:05:47.997 and with them, oftentimes, their greatest achievements. 00:05:48.056 --> 00:05:50.784 Yes, sir. There's something more. 00:05:52.602 --> 00:05:55.080 This is the Ghent Altarpiece. 00:05:55.730 --> 00:05:58.629 It is the defining monument of the Catholic Church. 00:05:58.692 --> 00:06:02.262 We now know that the Nazis have stolen it. 00:06:02.320 --> 00:06:05.139 Now, while we must and we will, sir, win this war, 00:06:05.198 --> 00:06:08.552 we should also remember the high price that will be paid 00:06:08.618 --> 00:06:12.097 if the very foundation of modern society is destroyed. 00:06:12.789 --> 00:06:14.562 Let's look at where we are now. 00:06:17.294 --> 00:06:19.237 The Russians are here. 00:06:19.296 --> 00:06:21.569 The Allies are here 00:06:21.631 --> 00:06:23.608 and here. 00:06:23.675 --> 00:06:27.871 In the next few months, God willing, we are all going to end up in Berlin. 00:06:27.929 --> 00:06:30.578 Meaning that we will have blasted our way west, 00:06:30.640 --> 00:06:33.869 through Poland, through Hungary, through Austria, 00:06:33.935 --> 00:06:38.290 north through Rome and Florence, 00:06:38.982 --> 00:06:42.336 and east through Paris. 00:06:42.402 --> 00:06:44.175 Then the question must be asked: 00:06:45.655 --> 00:06:49.851 Who would make sure that the Statue of David is still standing, 00:06:50.452 --> 00:06:52.975 or that Mona Lisa's still smiling? 00:06:53.496 --> 00:06:55.769 Who would be their protectors? 00:06:56.583 --> 00:06:59.778 Well, professor, it's a very compelling argument. 00:06:59.836 --> 00:07:00.983 What would you suggest? 00:07:01.963 --> 00:07:04.782 I suggest you pull together young art scholars 00:07:04.841 --> 00:07:08.036 to get over there and identify the great works. 00:07:08.094 --> 00:07:11.164 Our young art scholars are already over there fighting. 00:07:12.557 --> 00:07:14.500 You have a family? 00:07:14.559 --> 00:07:17.253 I have a wife and a young son. 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:20.878 I might be asking a great deal of you, then. 00:07:22.317 --> 00:07:24.090 I'll do my best, sir. 00:07:35.914 --> 00:07:38.984 There's a Michelangelo joke to be made. 00:07:40.085 --> 00:07:41.983 You're just the man to make it. 00:07:42.045 --> 00:07:43.692 You hungry? 00:07:43.755 --> 00:07:45.152 You buying? 00:07:45.215 --> 00:07:47.113 Uncle Sam is. 00:07:58.436 --> 00:08:00.709 - How's Penny? - She's swell. 00:08:00.772 --> 00:08:04.217 - I do question her taste. - So does she. 00:08:04.275 --> 00:08:06.093 How's the ticker? 00:08:06.569 --> 00:08:08.012 Still ticking. 00:08:08.071 --> 00:08:10.265 Want to get in the war? 00:08:12.867 --> 00:08:14.184 "The Monuments Men." 00:08:14.244 --> 00:08:16.472 - Signed by Roosevelt. - I see that. 00:08:16.538 --> 00:08:19.812 I'm to put a team together and try to protect what's left, 00:08:19.874 --> 00:08:21.521 and find what's missing. 00:08:21.584 --> 00:08:24.528 - Aren't you a little old for that? - Yes. 00:08:25.547 --> 00:08:28.321 You want to go into a war zone and tell our boys 00:08:28.383 --> 00:08:31.532 - what they can and cannot blow up. - That's the idea. 00:08:31.594 --> 00:08:34.243 - Okay. How many men? - For now, six. 00:08:34.305 --> 00:08:35.952 - Jesus. - Mm. 00:08:36.016 --> 00:08:38.619 - With you, that's seven. - That's much better. 00:08:38.685 --> 00:08:42.380 We'll go through basic in Shrivenham, England, then wait for orders. 00:08:42.439 --> 00:08:43.665 - Basic? - Mm-hm. 00:08:43.732 --> 00:08:47.086 Basic training. Us? 00:08:48.820 --> 00:08:50.388 Oh, boy. 00:08:50.447 --> 00:08:52.925 You're gonna need a point man in England. 00:08:52.991 --> 00:08:55.093 - Yeah, Donald Jeffries. - He's a drunk. 00:08:55.160 --> 00:08:57.604 - You're a drunk. - That's true. Pass me that. 00:08:57.662 --> 00:09:01.016 - But isn't Donald Jeffries in jail? - No, he didn't go to jail. 00:09:01.082 --> 00:09:03.150 - His father paid the money back. - Mm. 00:09:03.209 --> 00:09:05.437 How about his wife? Did she stick it out? 00:09:05.503 --> 00:09:07.605 No, nobody stuck it out. 00:09:10.133 --> 00:09:12.327 So when do we start? 00:11:49.334 --> 00:11:52.404 - Good to see you! Frank. James. - Donald. 00:11:52.462 --> 00:11:55.156 The chaps are all very anxious to get started. 00:11:55.215 --> 00:11:57.818 You're a lieutenant? They are getting desperate. 00:11:57.884 --> 00:12:01.284 Don't let Churchill hear that. James, how's your lovely wife? 00:12:01.346 --> 00:12:04.791 Fine. She told me to send you a kiss, which I won't deliver. 00:12:04.849 --> 00:12:06.747 - I'll just shake. - You usually do. 00:12:06.893 --> 00:12:08.586 Not anymore. I'm on the wagon. 00:12:08.645 --> 00:12:10.418 - Since when? - Nine this morning. 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:12.048 Congratulations. 00:12:12.106 --> 00:12:13.287 Thank you, private. 00:12:13.316 --> 00:12:15.589 This is Private Epstein, from New Jersey. 00:12:15.652 --> 00:12:17.152 You don't say. Whereabouts? 00:12:17.153 --> 00:12:19.631 Newark. But really the north side. 00:12:19.697 --> 00:12:21.925 - Of Newark? - Yes, sir. The north side. 00:12:21.991 --> 00:12:23.809 - That's what I thought. - Indeed. 00:12:23.868 --> 00:12:26.312 - I was born in Germany. - The north side. 00:12:26.371 --> 00:12:29.315 - How are the fellas making out? - Like Olympians. 00:12:29.374 --> 00:12:30.521 Yes, sir. 00:12:30.583 --> 00:12:34.654 We have your architect from Chicago, Sergeant Richard Campbell. 00:12:34.712 --> 00:12:38.032 And we have a Frenchman, Lieutenant Jean-Claude Clermont, 00:12:38.091 --> 00:12:42.446 director of design at the Chalet School of Fine Arts before the war. 00:12:43.096 --> 00:12:45.824 - Is Preston here? - Private Preston Savitz. 00:12:45.890 --> 00:12:47.791 Private? That won't sit well with him. 00:12:47.850 --> 00:12:49.293 It doesn't. 00:12:51.354 --> 00:12:54.378 Finally we have your sculptor, Sergeant Walter Garfield. 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:57.214 He's a good egg. I worked with him on the World War I memorial 00:12:57.277 --> 00:12:58.629 - in St. Louis. - Uh-huh. 00:12:58.695 --> 00:13:00.547 Hey, Stokes! 00:13:02.532 --> 00:13:03.975 How are you, old boy? 00:13:04.117 --> 00:13:06.811 Hey, Walter. How are they treating you? 00:13:06.869 --> 00:13:11.190 Been taking it pretty easy on us. I think they feel sorry for us old guys. 00:13:11.249 --> 00:13:13.272 I don't much fancy an obstacle course. 00:13:13.334 --> 00:13:14.526 It's not so bad. 00:13:14.585 --> 00:13:18.861 You're just crawling on your belly while teenagers shoot blanks over your head. 00:13:18.923 --> 00:13:20.616 Well, yes and no. 00:13:20.675 --> 00:13:22.869 - How's that? - Yes, they are teenagers. 00:13:22.927 --> 00:13:25.155 - And no? - They're not blanks. 00:13:26.556 --> 00:13:30.286 We're meeting up after mess. Let the other chaps know, will you? 00:13:30.351 --> 00:13:32.954 Try not to get shot in the meantime. 00:13:35.398 --> 00:13:38.593 I'm guessing you have all gotten to know each other by now. 00:13:38.651 --> 00:13:40.424 Basic training will do that. 00:13:40.486 --> 00:13:43.590 You've been selected by myself and Lieutenant Jeffries 00:13:43.656 --> 00:13:46.054 because we need your knowledge and skill. 00:13:46.117 --> 00:13:49.016 We have been tasked to find and protect 00:13:49.078 --> 00:13:52.307 buildings, monuments, and art. 00:13:52.373 --> 00:13:54.475 Private, will you get those lights? 00:13:56.085 --> 00:13:59.189 Did you know they were shooting at us with real bullets? 00:13:59.255 --> 00:14:00.777 Yes. 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:02.863 Everyone's favorite dictator. 00:14:04.927 --> 00:14:08.907 Age 19, and before his romantic novel Mein Kampf, 00:14:08.973 --> 00:14:12.873 he was a failed art student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. 00:14:12.935 --> 00:14:14.753 - Hitler painted that? - It's not bad. 00:14:14.812 --> 00:14:17.916 - Eh, it's not good. - This photograph 00:14:17.982 --> 00:14:20.801 has been obtained by the OSS. 00:14:20.860 --> 00:14:23.258 It's a model of his planned Fuhrer Museum, 00:14:23.321 --> 00:14:26.015 to be built in his hometown of Linz in Austria. 00:14:26.074 --> 00:14:29.428 - Fuhrer Museum? - It'd be one of the biggest in the world. 00:14:29.494 --> 00:14:31.346 Gonna take a lot of art to fill that up. 00:14:31.412 --> 00:14:32.604 Exactly right. 00:14:32.663 --> 00:14:36.984 We already know he's stealing art from Amsterdam, Warsaw, and from Paris. 00:14:37.043 --> 00:14:40.317 The French are hiding it, the Germans are finding and taking it. 00:14:40.380 --> 00:14:42.027 This is why Hitler didn't bomb Paris. 00:14:42.632 --> 00:14:43.858 He bombed London. 00:14:43.925 --> 00:14:45.743 Yes, I know. 00:14:46.052 --> 00:14:47.654 Have they started building? 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:49.948 No. That's the point. 00:14:50.014 --> 00:14:54.085 They're stealing the art and hiding it somewhere. 00:14:54.143 --> 00:14:58.214 We think they're hiding it in homes in this area and towards the east. 00:14:58.815 --> 00:15:01.338 Our boys are in Normandy giving them hell, 00:15:01.401 --> 00:15:05.426 so that means it's our turn next, over the Channel and into France. 00:15:06.155 --> 00:15:08.053 When? 00:15:08.116 --> 00:15:10.264 - Soon. - We're gonna start with James. 00:15:10.326 --> 00:15:13.521 He has a friend in Paris, director of the National Museum. 00:15:13.579 --> 00:15:16.853 - If he's still alive. - If he's alive, he'll have some idea 00:15:16.916 --> 00:15:20.486 where the French art has been hidden. We need that information. 00:15:20.545 --> 00:15:23.444 Lieutenant, you'll cross the Channel to Deauville. 00:15:23.506 --> 00:15:26.325 A contact named Emile will get you into Paris. 00:15:26.426 --> 00:15:29.279 Well, it's a good thing I'm fluent in French. 00:15:29.345 --> 00:15:30.913 Do we get to kill anybody? 00:15:30.972 --> 00:15:34.326 I don't know about you guys, but I'd like to kill somebody. 00:15:34.392 --> 00:15:37.917 - You want to shoot Hitler, private? - I wouldn't mind it. 00:15:38.062 --> 00:15:41.166 And Richard, if you call me "private" again, I will take a shot at you. 00:15:42.483 --> 00:15:43.880 Okay, so that's it. 00:15:44.527 --> 00:15:46.550 We'll ship out in the next few days. 00:15:46.612 --> 00:15:50.387 Although the war is coming to an end, it isn't any less dangerous. 00:15:50.450 --> 00:15:53.474 So walk carefully, take no undue chances. 00:15:53.536 --> 00:15:57.857 And remember that your lives are more important than a piece of art. 00:16:39.540 --> 00:16:42.564 Sarge, can you tell us where to find command and control? 00:16:42.627 --> 00:16:44.274 - Just got here? - Yeah. 00:16:44.337 --> 00:16:48.032 Top brass command post is about a quarter-mile that way, past K.P. 00:16:48.090 --> 00:16:49.533 Thanks! 00:16:50.426 --> 00:16:52.073 What? 00:16:57.808 --> 00:17:00.457 - If you'd read the orders... - I don't give a shit. 00:17:00.520 --> 00:17:03.169 The orders say, "Don't knock out old buildings..." 00:17:03.231 --> 00:17:05.208 - To be fair... - Do not interrupt me! 00:17:05.983 --> 00:17:08.677 If you think I'll write home to some kid's mom 00:17:08.736 --> 00:17:13.512 saying her boy's dead because we couldn't take out a church tower, I will not. 00:17:13.574 --> 00:17:15.472 So have at it. 00:17:15.535 --> 00:17:17.683 Anything else? 00:17:20.206 --> 00:17:21.899 No, sir. 00:17:29.048 --> 00:17:30.900 I think that went well. 00:17:30.967 --> 00:17:32.910 Looks like we're walking. 00:18:11.173 --> 00:18:12.946 Don't stand there. 00:18:13.009 --> 00:18:14.736 Come in. 00:18:18.306 --> 00:18:19.846 What are you doing here? 00:18:20.683 --> 00:18:22.626 Looking for you. 00:18:23.352 --> 00:18:24.954 Sit down. 00:18:33.029 --> 00:18:34.847 Do you know why I'm here? 00:18:35.406 --> 00:18:40.307 - Mm. - You have a brother. Peter, yes? 00:18:43.205 --> 00:18:44.807 Yes, you do. 00:18:45.374 --> 00:18:47.192 Are you close? 00:18:48.878 --> 00:18:50.696 He's my brother. 00:18:51.047 --> 00:18:54.617 Why didn't you tell me he fought for the Resistance? 00:18:56.260 --> 00:18:57.987 He doesn't. 00:18:58.220 --> 00:19:00.869 He doesn't now. He was shot this morning. 00:19:00.931 --> 00:19:02.704 He was trying to steal a truck. 00:19:03.059 --> 00:19:05.912 A truck filled with artwork going to Germany. 00:19:05.978 --> 00:19:07.455 And he was shot dead. 00:19:12.443 --> 00:19:15.262 How do you think he knew about that truck? 00:19:22.745 --> 00:19:24.518 You see, Claire, 00:19:24.914 --> 00:19:27.016 because you know the museum, 00:19:27.583 --> 00:19:30.687 all the collectors, the art, 00:19:30.753 --> 00:19:32.696 you have a value to me. 00:19:32.922 --> 00:19:36.492 And yet I have no doubt that if I were to search this apartment, 00:19:36.550 --> 00:19:40.325 I'd find things that would make our working together impossible. 00:19:41.764 --> 00:19:43.491 Shall I? 00:19:44.266 --> 00:19:46.368 Do as you wish. 00:19:47.770 --> 00:19:49.668 I will. 00:19:50.940 --> 00:19:53.964 If I find you interfering, you won't be fired. 00:19:54.026 --> 00:19:57.346 You'll be handed over to the SS. Is that clear to you? 00:20:02.952 --> 00:20:06.898 - I want his body. - Then swim to the bottom of the Seine. 00:20:31.814 --> 00:20:33.131 Granger? 00:20:34.525 --> 00:20:36.923 Worried was me for minute. 00:20:38.028 --> 00:20:42.634 I thought maybe Vichy were you or I was wrong spot. 00:20:43.701 --> 00:20:45.394 You speak English? 00:20:45.453 --> 00:20:46.975 - Yes. - Speak English. 00:20:47.037 --> 00:20:48.389 Okay. 00:20:51.876 --> 00:20:54.695 Is there a chance of getting a ride into Lisieux? 00:20:54.754 --> 00:20:56.527 Not a chance, lieutenant. 00:20:56.589 --> 00:20:59.442 - Any luck finding some radios? - No, sir. 00:20:59.508 --> 00:21:03.454 You got Lucky Strikes, hash, a pair of boots, size 11. 00:21:03.512 --> 00:21:05.364 - What size are you? - Nine. 00:21:15.858 --> 00:21:17.585 Hey, Sam! 00:21:17.651 --> 00:21:20.721 Hey, Sam! Epstein, hey! 00:21:20.780 --> 00:21:22.678 - Hey! - Hey, lieutenant! 00:21:22.740 --> 00:21:25.844 Hey, you are a sight for sore eyes. What are you driving? 00:21:25.910 --> 00:21:30.436 - Nazis were in hurry, left a few things. - I'm glad you didn't get left on the beach. 00:21:30.498 --> 00:21:32.896 I got pulled when they found I spoke German. 00:21:32.958 --> 00:21:36.688 - What are you, a translator? - No, I'm nothing till we get to Germany. 00:21:36.754 --> 00:21:38.356 That's too bad. 00:21:40.257 --> 00:21:41.404 Who's your CO? 00:22:02.738 --> 00:22:04.181 Hey, private? 00:22:04.573 --> 00:22:07.927 - I'm looking for Major Feilding. - Yes, sir. Just over here. 00:22:07.993 --> 00:22:10.437 - Major Feilding, sir! - Stokes. 00:22:10.496 --> 00:22:13.475 - Hey, John, how are you? - I wasn't sure we'd find you. 00:22:13.541 --> 00:22:15.268 I had to hitch a ride. What have you got? 00:22:15.668 --> 00:22:18.692 Look at this. I think this fellow's a Monet. 00:22:18.754 --> 00:22:21.778 - That's a Vermeer. - That's why I asked for you. 00:22:21.841 --> 00:22:26.242 We took a convoy of Germans hotfooting it out of Vernon. A dozen crates filled with these. 00:22:27.263 --> 00:22:30.162 - A dozen paintings? - A dozen crates. 00:22:30.224 --> 00:22:32.827 Sometimes 30 paintings inside. 00:22:33.936 --> 00:22:36.164 Can I talk to those Germans? 00:22:36.230 --> 00:22:37.877 I don't know. Can you? 00:22:39.275 --> 00:22:40.968 Ask them where they got the paintings. 00:22:42.778 --> 00:22:45.097 Are there any more trucks like these? 00:22:47.283 --> 00:22:48.430 Ask them again. 00:23:08.846 --> 00:23:10.448 - Take care. - Good luck. 00:23:10.514 --> 00:23:13.117 He said they were going to a town called Siegen. 00:23:13.183 --> 00:23:15.285 Five truckloads were taken from this area. 00:23:15.352 --> 00:23:16.499 Five truckloads. 00:23:16.562 --> 00:23:19.836 - Did he say that? - No, he said it. 00:23:19.899 --> 00:23:23.845 He is their commander. They switch uniforms. 00:23:23.903 --> 00:23:25.721 Goddamn. 00:23:28.365 --> 00:23:33.221 When I see Hitler, I'll be sure to give him your best... 00:23:33.787 --> 00:23:35.230 Captain. 00:23:53.515 --> 00:23:55.333 My family were home builders... 00:23:55.392 --> 00:23:58.837 my father, his father. 00:23:58.938 --> 00:24:00.915 I wanted a simpler life. 00:24:00.981 --> 00:24:02.253 Yeah. 00:24:02.358 --> 00:24:05.803 It is noble when work in dirt. 00:24:07.363 --> 00:24:10.763 You know, James, your French is not good. 00:24:10.824 --> 00:24:12.801 Where did you learn it? 00:24:12.868 --> 00:24:14.686 Here and there. 00:24:14.745 --> 00:24:17.815 - I studied in Canada for a while. - Canada? 00:24:17.873 --> 00:24:20.692 - Montreal. - Oh, no, no. 00:25:20.644 --> 00:25:22.542 I see you, Stahl! 00:25:28.277 --> 00:25:30.220 Where will you hide? 00:25:32.948 --> 00:25:34.550 I see you! 00:26:01.769 --> 00:26:04.292 Hey, fellas. Look what we found. 00:26:04.354 --> 00:26:06.923 - You remember Sam from Newark. - Hey, sport. 00:26:06.982 --> 00:26:08.584 We got ourselves a translator. 00:26:08.650 --> 00:26:10.568 I think he wanted my car. 00:26:10.569 --> 00:26:12.870 - Where's Campbell? - Savitz shot him. 00:26:15.657 --> 00:26:18.510 So now we know it's not random, it's systematic. 00:26:18.577 --> 00:26:21.100 Every one of those paintings is a masterpiece. 00:26:21.497 --> 00:26:25.067 They're all headed to the town of Siegen in Germany. 00:26:27.044 --> 00:26:30.694 The Nazis are on the run, but they've taken everything with them, 00:26:30.756 --> 00:26:33.700 so we have to get as close to the front as we can. 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:34.951 Preston, 00:26:35.010 --> 00:26:37.488 you and Campbell head towards Belgium. 00:26:37.554 --> 00:26:40.453 Specifically, Ghent. 00:26:40.516 --> 00:26:43.165 - What's in Ghent? - It used to be the Altarpiece. 00:26:43.227 --> 00:26:46.297 - They took the Ghent Altarpiece? - I'll go with Garfield. 00:26:46.355 --> 00:26:50.756 No, Garfield, you and Jean-Claude 00:26:50.818 --> 00:26:55.219 get as close to Germany as you can, to the city of Aachen. 00:26:55.280 --> 00:26:56.973 We'll leave in the morning. 00:26:57.032 --> 00:26:59.510 Why don't you take Sam from Newark with you, 00:26:59.576 --> 00:27:02.976 and I'll head up to my old stomping ground, Bruges? 00:27:03.455 --> 00:27:06.604 There's a Madonna there I used to see when I was young. 00:27:06.917 --> 00:27:09.691 Looks like we're gonna be together, buddy. 00:27:14.216 --> 00:27:16.444 These are German, but they might fit. 00:27:16.510 --> 00:27:19.159 That one will do just fine. 00:27:19.221 --> 00:27:21.244 Watch this. 00:27:23.517 --> 00:27:24.914 Any news of Granger? 00:27:24.977 --> 00:27:30.504 Well, word is they liberated Paris, so we should know something soon. 00:27:30.899 --> 00:27:32.672 Turn that knob right there. 00:27:39.283 --> 00:27:42.762 - Well, I'll be blowed. - See, I'm not just a pretty face. 00:27:42.828 --> 00:27:44.180 How's it going, Edison? 00:27:44.246 --> 00:27:46.974 Would you take that radio over there to the boys? 00:27:47.040 --> 00:27:49.859 - Let's see if this damn thing works. - You bet. 00:27:53.422 --> 00:27:56.446 Frank, I wanted to say thanks. 00:27:56.925 --> 00:27:58.493 For what? 00:27:58.844 --> 00:28:00.321 For another chance. 00:28:01.096 --> 00:28:04.245 Donnie, we've all screwed up on some level. 00:28:04.308 --> 00:28:06.376 Yours was just... 00:28:06.435 --> 00:28:07.878 Just at a high level. 00:28:07.978 --> 00:28:10.922 You're here because you're the best man for the job. 00:28:10.981 --> 00:28:12.754 Not charity? 00:28:13.984 --> 00:28:15.552 Well, a little. 00:28:18.780 --> 00:28:21.804 Monuments Men Radio is about to go live. 00:28:21.867 --> 00:28:23.469 I hope we play music. 00:28:23.535 --> 00:28:26.889 Calling London, calling London and all the ships at sea. 00:28:26.955 --> 00:28:29.023 We read you loud and clear. 00:28:29.082 --> 00:28:32.356 - How far will this thing reach? - We'll find out tomorrow. 00:28:32.419 --> 00:28:33.771 Roger that. 00:28:38.008 --> 00:28:39.451 Are all the fellas there? 00:28:40.010 --> 00:28:41.578 They are. 00:28:41.970 --> 00:28:43.572 All right, listen up, fellas. 00:28:43.639 --> 00:28:46.583 I think you should know the truth as I see it. 00:28:47.476 --> 00:28:50.750 This mission was never designed to succeed. 00:28:51.063 --> 00:28:52.415 It's, uh... 00:28:52.773 --> 00:28:54.633 If they were honest, they would tell us that. 00:28:55.984 --> 00:29:00.009 They'd tell us that with this many people dying, who cares about art? 00:29:00.447 --> 00:29:03.892 They're wrong, because that's exactly what we're fighting for, 00:29:03.951 --> 00:29:08.101 for our culture and for our way of life. 00:29:09.373 --> 00:29:12.272 You can wipe out a generation of people, 00:29:12.334 --> 00:29:16.735 you can burn their homes to the ground, and somehow they'll still come back. 00:29:17.506 --> 00:29:22.157 But if you destroy their achievements and their history, 00:29:22.386 --> 00:29:25.205 then it's like they never existed. 00:29:25.347 --> 00:29:28.701 Just ash floating. 00:29:31.186 --> 00:29:33.254 That's what Hitler wants. 00:29:33.397 --> 00:29:36.592 And it's the one thing we simply can't allow. 00:29:41.530 --> 00:29:43.177 I'll see you in the morning. 00:29:48.078 --> 00:29:50.306 Now I'm depressed. 00:29:53.583 --> 00:29:55.276 I want to make a toast. 00:29:55.335 --> 00:29:56.812 Uh-oh. 00:29:59.298 --> 00:30:02.823 Um, I think you fellas are... 00:30:06.388 --> 00:30:09.162 And I'm proud to be a Monuments Man. 00:30:10.392 --> 00:30:16.124 When this all broke out, I wanted to be a flier pilot... A fighter pilot. 00:30:16.398 --> 00:30:19.968 But I got bad eyes, my hearing is not good. 00:30:21.069 --> 00:30:24.548 Right here is the only way I get into this war. 00:30:25.615 --> 00:30:28.514 Now, I'm not some New York socialite, 00:30:28.577 --> 00:30:31.601 I haven't won any awards like all of you, but... 00:30:32.414 --> 00:30:34.858 But I'm guessing you feel the same. 00:30:36.251 --> 00:30:37.944 This is our time. 00:30:38.587 --> 00:30:41.406 My country thanks you, and I thank you. 00:30:41.465 --> 00:30:43.158 Screw the Germans. 00:30:43.759 --> 00:30:45.361 Present company expected. 00:30:46.678 --> 00:30:48.496 To the Monuments Men. 00:30:49.139 --> 00:30:52.209 - To the Monuments. - To the Monuments Men. 00:30:54.102 --> 00:30:55.875 You have children? 00:30:56.355 --> 00:30:59.129 Two, yeah. A 12-year-old and a 9-year-old. 00:30:59.191 --> 00:31:01.840 - Boy and girl? - Two girls. 00:31:01.902 --> 00:31:04.380 - Two girls, hmm. - Heh-heh, I know. 00:31:05.113 --> 00:31:06.760 I know. 00:31:06.823 --> 00:31:08.550 I have a boy. 00:31:08.950 --> 00:31:12.179 A 17-year-old boy. He's, uh... 00:31:13.121 --> 00:31:16.191 He's with the Resistance up in the north. 00:31:16.249 --> 00:31:17.646 In the north? 00:31:18.460 --> 00:31:21.484 - Yeah. - Rough up there. 00:31:21.546 --> 00:31:23.398 Yeah, it's rough. 00:31:27.386 --> 00:31:29.329 Hard times. 00:31:30.138 --> 00:31:33.538 Yeah, hard times. 00:31:41.316 --> 00:31:43.214 You like to fly? 00:32:09.511 --> 00:32:11.284 Paris! 00:32:12.347 --> 00:32:13.790 Pareee! 00:32:32.367 --> 00:32:33.810 Am I late? 00:32:34.578 --> 00:32:36.555 - By about four years. - Ha-ha-ha. 00:32:36.621 --> 00:32:38.974 - How are you, James? - Hello, René. 00:32:39.040 --> 00:32:41.313 How much of the art did you save? 00:32:41.376 --> 00:32:43.228 The national collection is safe. 00:32:43.295 --> 00:32:46.399 But the private collections, they are all gone. 00:32:46.465 --> 00:32:48.317 All the private collectors? 00:32:48.383 --> 00:32:52.579 All the private Jewish collectors, by decree, are illegitimate. 00:32:52.637 --> 00:32:54.865 Goering used this place to shop. 00:32:55.348 --> 00:32:57.325 And take them where? 00:32:57.392 --> 00:33:00.086 Germany. To their homes. 00:33:00.520 --> 00:33:02.497 Well, René, 00:33:03.190 --> 00:33:06.339 the U.S. Army would like to help you get them back. 00:33:10.113 --> 00:33:12.090 I'm happy to hear you say that. 00:33:12.157 --> 00:33:13.804 Where do we start? 00:33:13.867 --> 00:33:15.844 Claire Simone. 00:33:32.719 --> 00:33:34.116 Claire Simone? 00:33:38.391 --> 00:33:43.497 Hoping was I to speak about art... 00:33:44.272 --> 00:33:47.091 the stolen art. 00:33:48.026 --> 00:33:49.252 Yeah? 00:33:53.073 --> 00:33:58.225 I'd like to forcefully introduce myself. I am James Granger... 00:33:58.828 --> 00:34:03.525 and I'm the curator of Medieval art at the Met... 00:34:03.583 --> 00:34:04.730 New York. 00:34:05.043 --> 00:34:06.486 I know who you are. 00:34:06.545 --> 00:34:11.242 Then you know I'd like to help. 00:34:11.299 --> 00:34:12.867 I know nothing. 00:34:12.968 --> 00:34:15.412 And will you stop speaking in French? 00:34:15.470 --> 00:34:17.948 Or whatever language you are speaking. 00:34:20.433 --> 00:34:23.286 Well, if it weren't for us, you'd be speaking German. 00:34:24.271 --> 00:34:28.001 No. If it wasn't for you, I might be dead. 00:34:28.066 --> 00:34:30.794 But I would still be speaking French. 00:34:33.446 --> 00:34:35.924 - Okay. - So, 00:34:36.783 --> 00:34:40.558 - how can I help you steal our stolen art? - That's not why I'm here. 00:34:40.620 --> 00:34:44.350 - I'm here to help you get it back. - Yes, to fill your museum. 00:34:45.292 --> 00:34:48.521 I'm told you were at the Jeu de Paume during the occupation. 00:34:49.421 --> 00:34:52.775 - I was. - I'm interested in what you saw there. 00:34:52.966 --> 00:34:57.537 Goering came more than 20 times, you know, took whatever he wanted. 00:34:57.596 --> 00:34:59.039 Where did they take them? 00:34:59.097 --> 00:35:01.746 - Who knows? - I think you do know. 00:35:01.808 --> 00:35:02.955 Ah. 00:35:03.018 --> 00:35:04.791 You've been speaking with Rene. 00:35:05.270 --> 00:35:06.997 Were you there the whole time? 00:35:07.689 --> 00:35:10.588 Of course. I'm a collaborator. Haven't you heard? 00:35:10.650 --> 00:35:13.720 I helped the Germans steal our art. 00:35:13.778 --> 00:35:15.596 And that's why you're here? 00:35:15.989 --> 00:35:17.762 What do you think? 00:35:18.199 --> 00:35:20.347 I think you worked with the Resistance. 00:35:20.410 --> 00:35:22.979 And I think I can convince them to let you out. 00:35:23.163 --> 00:35:24.810 Why? 00:35:24.873 --> 00:35:27.226 Do you know where the art was taken? 00:35:27.292 --> 00:35:30.612 Who's asking? The curator of the Met? 00:35:37.218 --> 00:35:40.322 We put all of the panels in a truck, sent it to Brussels 00:35:40.388 --> 00:35:43.742 with two priests. But the Germans found them and took them. 00:35:43.808 --> 00:35:45.626 May I speak to the priests? 00:35:46.186 --> 00:35:47.913 They were shot. 00:35:51.775 --> 00:35:56.051 If we're gonna find it, we'll have to jump ahead of the Third Army into Germany. 00:35:56.112 --> 00:35:58.886 Number one priority, Preston. You understand? 00:35:58.948 --> 00:36:00.971 The Nazis can't keep it. 00:36:01.201 --> 00:36:02.894 We'll find it. 00:36:03.203 --> 00:36:04.680 I know you will. 00:36:04.746 --> 00:36:07.395 - Keep your head down. - Will do. 00:36:08.708 --> 00:36:09.980 It says the Altarpiece 00:36:10.043 --> 00:36:13.488 is one of the most desired pieces of art. 00:36:13.546 --> 00:36:15.648 How'd you read all that? 00:36:16.049 --> 00:36:18.868 - It's in English. - Yeah, I know that. 00:36:18.927 --> 00:36:21.655 I just wasn't actually aware you could read. 00:36:32.399 --> 00:36:33.921 Psst! 00:36:38.154 --> 00:36:39.506 Easy. 00:36:40.615 --> 00:36:43.594 So, Sam, when did you leave Germany? 00:36:43.660 --> 00:36:48.186 1938. Yeah, I was 13. 00:36:48.248 --> 00:36:51.067 - Did your family go with you? - Yeah, my parents. 00:36:51.126 --> 00:36:53.274 My grandfather stayed behind. 00:36:53.336 --> 00:36:56.565 - What city? - Karlsruhe. 00:36:56.881 --> 00:36:59.530 Yeah, you know, there's a famous museum there. 00:36:59.592 --> 00:37:02.070 Had one of Rembrandt's self-portraits. 00:37:02.137 --> 00:37:05.036 See? You were born to be a Monuments Man. 00:37:05.098 --> 00:37:08.452 - I've never seen that painting. - No, me neither. 00:37:08.727 --> 00:37:10.454 We weren't allowed. 00:37:10.520 --> 00:37:14.500 My grandfather would tell me it was because we were too short. 00:37:15.066 --> 00:37:18.386 And then war broke out, 00:37:18.737 --> 00:37:21.886 and all of Europe was too short for Hitler. 00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:25.643 Have you heard from your grandfather? 00:37:25.702 --> 00:37:27.850 No, not for four years. 00:37:28.246 --> 00:37:30.565 He was taken away. 00:37:31.416 --> 00:37:34.110 - Away where? - Dachau. 00:37:46.431 --> 00:37:48.454 Hey, how does that work? 00:37:56.107 --> 00:37:57.925 What's going on? 00:38:07.786 --> 00:38:10.184 This seems to be a bit of a problem. 00:38:10.246 --> 00:38:11.893 A bit. 00:38:16.961 --> 00:38:18.904 Here's a thought. 00:38:20.465 --> 00:38:22.192 We put down our guns. 00:38:22.467 --> 00:38:23.944 You go your way. 00:38:24.803 --> 00:38:26.576 We go our way. 00:38:27.138 --> 00:38:29.081 No hard feelings. 00:38:33.311 --> 00:38:35.539 He doesn't speak any English. 00:38:35.605 --> 00:38:37.048 Not a word. 00:38:37.982 --> 00:38:39.550 Okay. 00:38:41.903 --> 00:38:43.630 You're just going to sit down? 00:38:43.696 --> 00:38:46.845 Yeah, why don't we all just sit down for a sec? 00:38:47.158 --> 00:38:48.635 Okay. 00:38:49.160 --> 00:38:50.386 All right. 00:38:50.912 --> 00:38:52.685 Shh, shh, shh. 00:38:52.747 --> 00:38:53.939 Okay. 00:39:26.197 --> 00:39:27.970 I don't smoke. 00:39:29.701 --> 00:39:32.475 - Take a cigarette. - I don't smoke. 00:39:32.537 --> 00:39:34.685 Take a goddamn cigarette. 00:39:42.463 --> 00:39:43.735 Mm. 00:40:14.913 --> 00:40:16.356 John Wayne. 00:40:18.750 --> 00:40:20.193 John Wayne. 00:40:31.262 --> 00:40:33.706 Shouldn't we have arrested him or something? 00:40:35.099 --> 00:40:37.042 He's not going anywhere. 00:40:38.061 --> 00:40:39.378 What was taken? 00:40:39.437 --> 00:40:42.711 The bust of Charlemagne, the shrine holding the robe of Mary. 00:40:42.774 --> 00:40:43.966 Okay. How far east? 00:40:44.025 --> 00:40:46.799 I heard one commandant mention the town of Merkers. 00:40:46.861 --> 00:40:49.714 - Merkers? - Sir, please... we have no quarrel with you. 00:40:49.781 --> 00:40:53.431 - And we have none with you. - Let us have them back, don't keep them. 00:40:53.493 --> 00:40:54.640 Father... 00:40:54.702 --> 00:40:55.849 Look out! 00:41:07.298 --> 00:41:08.741 Okay. 00:41:09.968 --> 00:41:12.491 So one of us has to distract him, 00:41:12.553 --> 00:41:14.451 the other one takes him out. 00:41:14.973 --> 00:41:16.916 Sounds like a good plan. 00:41:17.642 --> 00:41:18.994 All right. 00:41:19.477 --> 00:41:21.079 Okay, I'll take him out. 00:41:21.145 --> 00:41:22.417 I'll take him out. 00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:24.423 - You have a family. - So do you. 00:41:30.321 --> 00:41:33.470 Okay, you go distract and I'll take care of business. 00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:36.681 All right. 00:41:37.578 --> 00:41:39.726 I've never shot anyone before. 00:41:40.832 --> 00:41:42.934 - It's easy. - Have you? 00:41:43.001 --> 00:41:45.195 I'm about to. 00:41:46.129 --> 00:41:50.530 Okay, I'll shoot, you go. 00:42:10.028 --> 00:42:11.345 Whoa, whoa, whoa! 00:43:03.081 --> 00:43:04.524 Shit. 00:43:09.921 --> 00:43:13.446 - Maybe we keep this to ourselves. - I think that's best. 00:43:21.265 --> 00:43:23.959 Good evening. Where's your CO? 00:43:24.018 --> 00:43:27.088 Colonel Langton, sir. I'll take you to him. Follow me. 00:43:27.146 --> 00:43:29.624 I'm hoping to speak to Colonel Langton. 00:43:30.358 --> 00:43:32.335 Langton here, lieutenant. 00:43:32.401 --> 00:43:35.425 Donald Jeffries. How do you do? Do you have a moment? 00:43:35.488 --> 00:43:37.306 Can I tempt you with a cognac? 00:43:37.365 --> 00:43:39.843 You could easily tempt me, but no, thank you. 00:43:39.909 --> 00:43:41.636 Are you bringing us bad news? 00:43:41.702 --> 00:43:45.022 Not at all, sir, no. I was simply hoping to get into town. 00:43:45.081 --> 00:43:46.899 - What town, Bruges? Why? - Bruges. 00:43:46.958 --> 00:43:50.562 Colonel, my job is to protect art, so that when this war is over, 00:43:50.628 --> 00:43:52.696 there will still be some, you see. 00:43:52.755 --> 00:43:56.280 In a cathedral in Bruges is Michelangelo's Madonna and Child, 00:43:56.342 --> 00:43:59.446 his only sculpture to leave Italy during his lifetime. 00:43:59.512 --> 00:44:03.492 And if it can be helped, I'd like to see it still standing there tomorrow. 00:44:03.558 --> 00:44:06.707 You do have an unusual job, lieutenant. 00:44:06.769 --> 00:44:09.839 There is some good news. We're not going into Bruges. 00:44:09.897 --> 00:44:11.920 We've made a deal with the mayor. 00:44:12.650 --> 00:44:15.720 We won't attack the city and the Germans are leaving. 00:44:15.778 --> 00:44:17.972 We'll resume fighting outside Bruges. 00:44:18.072 --> 00:44:21.142 If we catch them. They're running at a fair clip. 00:44:21.200 --> 00:44:23.519 Have you seen this, colonel? 00:44:24.036 --> 00:44:26.855 The Germans destroyed Florence when they pulled out. 00:44:26.914 --> 00:44:28.732 They'll do the same to Bruges. 00:44:28.791 --> 00:44:32.236 No, lieutenant, they're not. This isn't Italy. 00:44:32.295 --> 00:44:35.365 The war is ending. These Germans just want to get home. 00:44:35.423 --> 00:44:38.777 They've not destroyed any French villages. They're on the run. 00:44:38.843 --> 00:44:42.914 - If you could let me have two guards... - The Germans don't have the time. 00:44:42.972 --> 00:44:46.201 They don't have the explosives, or even the damn tanks. 00:44:46.267 --> 00:44:50.372 No, I will not risk a street-to-street battle. We will honor our agreement. 00:44:50.438 --> 00:44:54.634 When we get to Bruges, you can finish your job in the cathedral. Understood? 00:44:55.735 --> 00:44:57.428 I understand. 00:44:58.446 --> 00:45:00.548 Is there anything else? 00:45:02.408 --> 00:45:04.385 No, sir. Thank you. 00:46:53.978 --> 00:46:56.297 Any of you speak English? 00:46:58.607 --> 00:47:01.005 Are you Catholic, lieutenant? 00:47:03.321 --> 00:47:05.173 I am tonight. 00:47:08.117 --> 00:47:10.094 Dear Father. 00:47:10.161 --> 00:47:15.313 Weep you might when you hear of my many adventures with these fine men. 00:47:15.374 --> 00:47:18.978 It would remind you of our treasure hunts when I was a boy. 00:47:19.337 --> 00:47:22.065 But rather than a whistle or a top, 00:47:22.131 --> 00:47:25.986 our prizes are Rembrandts and Rubens. 00:47:32.183 --> 00:47:35.503 It feels odd that in a place with so much death, 00:47:35.561 --> 00:47:38.210 I've never felt more alive. 00:47:38.856 --> 00:47:41.926 My thoughts soar with the tales 00:47:41.984 --> 00:47:45.839 these streets could tell of the Madonna's long journey to Paris 00:47:45.905 --> 00:47:49.384 and her triumphant return with the fall of Napoleon. 00:47:50.034 --> 00:47:53.980 You can see her porcelain hand gently holding the small boy 00:47:54.038 --> 00:47:58.609 as if to guard him from a fate she knew would come. 00:48:09.720 --> 00:48:16.203 I know in a time of war my endeavor must seem small, and perhaps it is. 00:48:16.268 --> 00:48:19.542 But I remain diligent and resolute in my belief 00:48:19.605 --> 00:48:23.835 that great works of art can never belong to any one individual. 00:48:23.901 --> 00:48:25.423 At least not in spirit. 00:48:29.573 --> 00:48:33.928 The Madonna is as much mine as it was Napoleon's. 00:48:34.078 --> 00:48:39.435 And her hand gently guards me from a fate I know will come. 00:48:54.432 --> 00:48:57.411 Father, I know I've been a great disappointment. 00:48:58.227 --> 00:49:00.079 In defense of the indefensible, 00:49:00.146 --> 00:49:03.796 my crimes were qualities I found in the bottom of a bottle, 00:49:03.858 --> 00:49:06.052 not actions bent on hurting you. 00:49:28.966 --> 00:49:30.488 I long for the chance 00:49:30.551 --> 00:49:34.406 to be back on that pedestal you so proudly placed me. 00:49:35.306 --> 00:49:39.127 Perhaps here I can make you proud again. 00:49:39.185 --> 00:49:41.959 Here at the foot of our Madonna. 00:49:42.021 --> 00:49:45.671 I am humbled and grateful, 00:49:46.817 --> 00:49:49.011 and longing for home 00:49:49.653 --> 00:49:51.346 and rest. 00:49:52.990 --> 00:49:55.343 I'm in great need of rest. 00:49:56.327 --> 00:49:58.145 I'll write when I can. 00:49:58.204 --> 00:50:02.150 Cheers and Godspeed. Donald. 00:50:14.178 --> 00:50:16.872 You'll see to it that his family gets these? 00:50:16.931 --> 00:50:18.533 We will. 00:50:21.435 --> 00:50:23.208 Thank you. 00:50:24.188 --> 00:50:28.259 Lieutenant, I told him not to go, but he was hell-bent. 00:50:30.528 --> 00:50:34.053 - And they took the Madonna? - That's right. 00:50:35.866 --> 00:50:38.060 Well, I'd better get her back. 00:50:52.841 --> 00:50:54.488 What have you got? 00:50:54.552 --> 00:50:57.405 Yeah, the vicar gave us the town of Merkers. 00:50:57.471 --> 00:50:59.665 They might've stored some pieces there. 00:50:59.723 --> 00:51:01.575 - Merkers? - Yeah. 00:51:01.642 --> 00:51:06.919 - M-E-R-K-E-R-S. Merkers. - Got it. 00:51:06.981 --> 00:51:10.676 - Any word from Granger? - Nothing yet. 00:51:10.734 --> 00:51:14.054 All hell's breaking loose here. They won't let us through. 00:51:14.405 --> 00:51:17.133 We're to hold up in St. Vith. 00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:18.972 We'll meet you there. 00:51:21.245 --> 00:51:22.892 Hell of a thing about Donald. 00:51:25.082 --> 00:51:27.184 It's a hell of a thing. 00:51:38.345 --> 00:51:41.790 - What is all this? - People's lives. 00:51:45.603 --> 00:51:47.421 What people? 00:51:48.272 --> 00:51:49.919 Jews. 00:52:58.801 --> 00:53:00.027 They're gone. 00:53:07.851 --> 00:53:09.953 You get around. 00:53:11.271 --> 00:53:12.964 I'm a spy, remember? 00:53:16.694 --> 00:53:18.341 They're not coming back. 00:53:18.696 --> 00:53:22.141 Well, Claire, my job is to find art and return it. 00:53:22.741 --> 00:53:25.685 And this seems like a good place to start. 00:53:48.892 --> 00:53:51.666 Attention, all personnel. The overdue resupply 00:53:51.729 --> 00:53:53.797 of additional winter overcoats... 00:53:58.277 --> 00:54:07.730 ♪ You always hurt the one you love ♪ 00:54:08.579 --> 00:54:15.688 ♪ The one you shouldn't hurt at all ♪ 00:54:18.589 --> 00:54:21.818 ♪ You always take ♪ 00:54:24.470 --> 00:54:26.163 ♪ The sweetest rose ♪ 00:54:26.263 --> 00:54:29.663 Oh, that's good. That's really good. 00:54:29.725 --> 00:54:35.002 ♪ Till the petals fall ♪ 00:54:35.689 --> 00:54:39.760 ♪ You always break ♪ 00:54:41.945 --> 00:54:43.763 Well, if that doesn't beat all. 00:54:44.114 --> 00:54:49.641 Just because we're at war doesn't mean one can't eat well. 00:54:49.745 --> 00:54:54.396 ♪ Recall so ♪ 00:54:55.042 --> 00:54:59.147 ♪ If I broke ♪ 00:54:59.213 --> 00:55:00.485 Mm! 00:55:00.547 --> 00:55:02.194 What's that? 00:55:02.257 --> 00:55:04.405 It's a message from home. 00:55:04.468 --> 00:55:05.740 Hm. 00:55:09.890 --> 00:55:13.119 We may have to confiscate a phonograph. 00:55:13.185 --> 00:55:14.878 Okay. 00:55:16.438 --> 00:55:19.132 ♪ The one you love ♪ 00:55:19.191 --> 00:55:25.389 ♪ The one you shouldn't hurt at all ♪ 00:55:26.698 --> 00:55:29.972 ♪ You always take ♪ 00:55:30.160 --> 00:55:34.231 ♪ The sweetest rose And crush it ♪ 00:55:34.289 --> 00:55:37.393 ♪ Till the petals fall ♪ 00:55:37.459 --> 00:55:40.028 - Doc! - Sir. 00:55:40.087 --> 00:55:41.867 - Over here. - We found him 00:55:41.922 --> 00:55:43.069 on the side of the road. 00:55:43.131 --> 00:55:46.986 He took one in the chest. His leg's bleeding. We put a tourniquet on it. 00:55:47.052 --> 00:55:50.122 Let's get this shirt off and see how bad it is. 00:55:52.015 --> 00:55:55.540 You're gonna be fine, son. We're gonna get you some morphine. 00:55:55.602 --> 00:55:57.704 Can we get some morphine over here? 00:55:57.771 --> 00:56:00.545 - What's his name? - I don't know. 00:56:00.607 --> 00:56:07.591 ♪ It's because I love you most of all ♪♪ 00:56:10.534 --> 00:56:13.057 Hey, Papa. Merry Christmas. 00:56:13.120 --> 00:56:16.440 I've got a couple of little monsters here who want to say hi. 00:56:16.498 --> 00:56:18.396 Say, "Merry Christmas, Grandpa." 00:56:18.458 --> 00:56:22.279 - Merry Christmas, Grandpa. - Merry Christmas, Grandpa. 00:56:24.339 --> 00:56:28.160 All right, ready? And... 00:56:28.218 --> 00:56:35.076 ♪ Have yourself A merry little Christmas ♪ 00:56:36.184 --> 00:56:41.541 ♪ Let your heart be light ♪ 00:56:43.025 --> 00:56:52.682 ♪ From now on Our troubles will be out of sight ♪ 00:56:55.871 --> 00:57:01.774 ♪ Have yourself A merry little Christmas ♪ 00:57:01.877 --> 00:57:04.480 You can take that tourniquet off, lieutenant. 00:57:04.546 --> 00:57:08.367 ♪ Make the yuletide gay ♪ 00:57:08.884 --> 00:57:16.118 ♪ From now on Our troubles will be miles away ♪ 00:57:16.224 --> 00:57:19.123 - Is he gonna be okay? - He's gonna be fine. 00:57:19.394 --> 00:57:22.839 Can you get the chaplain? Joe, can I get that morphine? 00:57:24.232 --> 00:57:25.800 I'll get the chaplain. 00:57:26.568 --> 00:57:33.517 ♪ Happy golden days of yore ♪ 00:57:34.534 --> 00:57:39.686 ♪ Faithful friends who are dear to us ♪ 00:57:39.998 --> 00:57:46.731 ♪ Gather near to us once more ♪ 00:57:49.549 --> 00:57:55.122 ♪ Through the years We all will be together ♪ 00:57:56.598 --> 00:58:00.498 ♪ If the fates allow ♪ 00:58:02.396 --> 00:58:07.127 ♪ Hang a shining star ♪ 00:58:07.192 --> 00:58:12.514 ♪ Upon the highest bough ♪ 00:58:12.572 --> 00:58:16.677 ♪ And have yourself ♪ 00:58:17.494 --> 00:58:25.820 ♪ A merry little Christmas now ♪♪ 00:58:33.927 --> 00:58:36.308 Well, what the hell is she afraid of? 00:58:36.346 --> 00:58:39.165 She's afraid we'll keep it, like the Russians. 00:58:39.224 --> 00:58:41.326 The Russians are keeping the art? 00:58:41.393 --> 00:58:43.336 They lost 20 million people, Frank. 00:58:43.437 --> 00:58:46.381 They've commissioned a trophy brigade 00:58:46.440 --> 00:58:51.171 to collect and keep all the stolen art. To make reparations. 00:58:51.236 --> 00:58:54.385 "Trophy brigade." You gotta love a snappy nickname. 00:58:54.448 --> 00:58:56.391 Like Monuments Men? 00:58:58.785 --> 00:59:01.138 I got a letter from Donald's father. 00:59:01.204 --> 00:59:05.104 Said I should be proud of helping Donald get his dignity back. 00:59:08.545 --> 00:59:10.613 I don't feel very proud. 00:59:11.465 --> 00:59:14.944 He asked if I found the Madonna. I don't even know where to look. 00:59:18.472 --> 00:59:21.917 We need to know what Claire knows, James. 00:59:24.478 --> 00:59:26.421 I'm close, Frank. 00:59:28.982 --> 00:59:30.550 Okay. 00:59:31.651 --> 00:59:34.004 And now we got the Russians. 00:59:37.991 --> 00:59:40.594 Put the Germans in the truck. 00:59:41.328 --> 00:59:43.601 Give them some bread. 00:59:48.251 --> 00:59:50.900 Be careful with those paintings. 00:59:52.172 --> 00:59:53.649 Touch only the frames. 00:59:55.675 --> 00:59:57.618 The frames we can replace. 01:00:17.114 --> 01:00:18.716 Do you know what this is? 01:00:18.782 --> 01:00:21.135 - No. - It's a directive. The Nero Decree. 01:00:21.201 --> 01:00:23.645 It is written by Hitler, signed by Hitler. 01:00:23.703 --> 01:00:27.603 It says if he dies or if Germany falls, they're to destroy everything. 01:00:30.919 --> 01:00:32.566 Everything. 01:00:33.713 --> 01:00:35.315 Where did they take the art? 01:00:36.049 --> 01:00:37.571 Germany. 01:00:38.552 --> 01:00:40.825 You understand I'm here to help you? 01:00:40.887 --> 01:00:43.831 I understand you are, but you are not in Germany. 01:00:43.890 --> 01:00:46.413 - My men are. - I don't know your men. 01:00:46.476 --> 01:00:48.670 You'll have to find somebody to trust. 01:00:48.728 --> 01:00:50.956 Yes, James, you tell me who. 01:01:02.576 --> 01:01:03.928 What's cooking? 01:01:03.994 --> 01:01:05.562 Lice. 01:01:06.413 --> 01:01:08.857 - It's called the Nero Decree. - What? 01:01:08.915 --> 01:01:12.110 Granger took it off a train full of art headed for Germany. 01:01:12.169 --> 01:01:18.367 It says if Hitler dies, they're to destroy bridges, train tracks, archives, art. 01:01:18.425 --> 01:01:19.617 Jesus. 01:01:19.676 --> 01:01:21.995 So we think most of the art went to Siegen? 01:01:22.053 --> 01:01:24.372 We know it went through Siegen and Merkers. 01:01:24.431 --> 01:01:27.705 - Lot of art to hide in a couple towns. - What are you eating? 01:01:27.767 --> 01:01:29.540 - Homemade jerky. Want some? - No. 01:01:29.603 --> 01:01:33.424 Garfield, let's say you and Jean-Claude make your way to Merkers. 01:01:33.899 --> 01:01:35.626 And then we'll go to Siegen. 01:01:35.692 --> 01:01:38.090 And we have to hope no one kills Hitler. 01:01:40.113 --> 01:01:41.840 I never thought I'd say that. 01:01:43.116 --> 01:01:45.059 We'll meet up in Nuremberg. 01:01:45.493 --> 01:01:48.016 Oh. Oh, God. 01:02:03.637 --> 01:02:05.080 Ow. 01:02:05.305 --> 01:02:07.749 - That looks really painful. - It is. 01:02:07.807 --> 01:02:10.251 Very painful, yeah. 01:02:10.310 --> 01:02:11.832 So you're artists, heh? 01:02:11.895 --> 01:02:15.124 No, we're collectors from New York. Yeah, this guy's an architect. 01:02:15.357 --> 01:02:16.800 Oh, ha, ha. 01:02:16.983 --> 01:02:18.801 I always wanted to see New York. 01:02:18.860 --> 01:02:21.258 Greatest city in the world. 01:02:21.321 --> 01:02:23.389 - Have you ever seen Munich? - No. 01:02:23.448 --> 01:02:25.266 But we will soon. 01:02:30.747 --> 01:02:32.895 What did he say? What's that? 01:02:32.999 --> 01:02:35.397 He said not to make me angry. 01:02:37.671 --> 01:02:39.739 - Okay, okay. Let's go. - Ow! 01:02:46.763 --> 01:02:49.833 I... I have a nephew who studied art in Paris. 01:02:49.891 --> 01:02:54.087 Yeah, he lives a few miles from here. He may be able to help you. 01:02:54.145 --> 01:02:55.622 Is he a soldier? 01:02:55.689 --> 01:02:59.510 He was a soldier, heh, heh, like you. But he's a good boy. 01:02:59.776 --> 01:03:02.675 Oh. I'm sure you're all innocent. 01:03:06.366 --> 01:03:08.389 Okay, okay, Say: Ah! 01:03:38.565 --> 01:03:41.043 So how long were you in Paris? 01:03:41.735 --> 01:03:43.678 You studied in Paris? 01:03:43.737 --> 01:03:46.841 Yes, two years. My wife and I left Paris. 01:03:50.869 --> 01:03:52.391 Hmm. 01:03:52.787 --> 01:03:56.107 - These are beautiful paintings. - I wish. Just copies. 01:03:56.166 --> 01:03:58.769 Cézanne. Renoir. 01:04:00.045 --> 01:04:01.647 They're good. 01:04:06.426 --> 01:04:08.824 So where did you study art? 01:04:08.887 --> 01:04:10.580 Harvard. 01:04:11.097 --> 01:04:12.699 Society for Contemporary Art. 01:04:13.683 --> 01:04:19.335 They're looking for artifacts. They want to protect the historic pieces. Huh? 01:04:19.397 --> 01:04:21.795 It's an honorable thing in a time of war. 01:04:22.776 --> 01:04:26.005 Well, we think the SS took the great pieces of art 01:04:26.071 --> 01:04:28.970 out through France and are hiding it. 01:04:29.449 --> 01:04:34.646 Yeah, I told them you may be able to help, Hermann. Huh? 01:04:35.121 --> 01:04:37.690 Well, I wasn't SS. I was a soldier, like you. 01:04:37.749 --> 01:04:40.443 If I can help you in any way... 01:04:40.502 --> 01:04:43.196 Do you know a collector named Rothschild? 01:04:43.254 --> 01:04:46.278 - Rothschild. - Had one of the greatest art collections 01:04:46.341 --> 01:04:48.068 - in the world. - He's French? 01:04:48.134 --> 01:04:51.488 - Jewish. - No. No, I don't know him. 01:04:53.890 --> 01:04:55.412 Uh... 01:04:55.809 --> 01:04:58.378 Does your wife speak English? 01:04:58.436 --> 01:04:59.628 No, no. 01:04:59.687 --> 01:05:01.164 Good. 01:05:05.485 --> 01:05:08.384 The back of the Cézanne 01:05:08.446 --> 01:05:10.048 says Rothschild. 01:05:20.291 --> 01:05:22.018 It was a gift. 01:05:23.461 --> 01:05:25.529 And the Renoir too? 01:05:49.112 --> 01:05:50.259 Heil Hitler. 01:05:50.905 --> 01:05:52.723 Heil Hitler! 01:05:59.873 --> 01:06:01.725 Heil Hitler. 01:06:14.637 --> 01:06:15.954 Hey, private. 01:06:17.140 --> 01:06:20.369 - Where's Siegen? - You're in it, lieutenant. 01:06:34.699 --> 01:06:36.642 It should be this turn. 01:06:37.076 --> 01:06:38.849 Who the hell knows? 01:06:39.037 --> 01:06:40.855 It could have been the last one. 01:06:41.915 --> 01:06:44.894 If we get to a bell tower, we've gone too far. 01:06:45.543 --> 01:06:46.986 What do you think? 01:06:48.588 --> 01:06:51.532 I don't think we should go any further down this road. 01:07:07.106 --> 01:07:09.709 Stop, stop, stop. Wait, wait, stop, stop, stop. 01:07:12.904 --> 01:07:14.472 Look at him. 01:07:14.531 --> 01:07:15.928 He's a beauty. 01:07:15.990 --> 01:07:17.933 He's a runner. 01:07:18.451 --> 01:07:19.894 Hey, my friend. 01:07:24.916 --> 01:07:27.064 I haven't got a thing for you. 01:07:29.295 --> 01:07:31.022 Offer him a cigarette. 01:07:32.465 --> 01:07:34.033 You want a cigarette? 01:07:36.302 --> 01:07:37.745 I guess he doesn't smoke. 01:08:20.346 --> 01:08:21.789 Jean-Claude? 01:08:58.051 --> 01:08:59.448 Aah! 01:09:06.893 --> 01:09:08.995 Goddamn it. Goddamn it. 01:09:09.062 --> 01:09:12.166 I'm shot! Where am I hit? 01:09:12.231 --> 01:09:14.425 Jesus Christ. 01:09:19.572 --> 01:09:21.845 I'm bleeding like a son of a bitch. 01:09:23.409 --> 01:09:25.307 Dumb-ass way to get killed. 01:09:26.579 --> 01:09:28.226 Shit, merde! 01:09:29.749 --> 01:09:32.819 Help! Help me! 01:09:35.046 --> 01:09:36.193 Please! 01:09:36.255 --> 01:09:38.278 When we first started this mission, 01:09:38.341 --> 01:09:39.613 there was some question 01:09:39.676 --> 01:09:42.780 as to whether we could really call ourselves soldiers. 01:09:42.845 --> 01:09:46.825 Were we risking as much as these young men fighting and dying? 01:09:46.891 --> 01:09:49.164 And I suppose it was fair to ask. 01:09:50.228 --> 01:09:53.047 Garfield, hold onto this. My wife gave it to me. 01:09:53.106 --> 01:09:54.924 I don't want to get blood on it. 01:09:56.442 --> 01:09:59.716 Jean-Claude, you hang on to it right now. 01:10:00.113 --> 01:10:03.433 We are no longer observers to war. 01:10:03.783 --> 01:10:05.885 We're active participants, 01:10:05.952 --> 01:10:09.898 subject to the same heartache as the rest of these soldiers. 01:10:17.964 --> 01:10:22.786 When we lost Donald Jeffries, we earned the right to wear the uniform. 01:10:23.970 --> 01:10:26.414 And now we've lost our second man. 01:10:27.765 --> 01:10:32.462 From the beginning, I told you that no piece of art was worth a man's life. 01:10:33.146 --> 01:10:36.125 But these last months have proved me wrong. 01:10:36.816 --> 01:10:41.092 This is our history, and it's not to be stolen or destroyed. 01:10:41.320 --> 01:10:46.551 It's to be held up and admired, as are these brave men. 01:10:48.327 --> 01:10:51.101 And now we owe it to them to finish the job. 01:10:54.417 --> 01:10:56.565 Walter, head stateside, get some R&R. 01:10:56.627 --> 01:10:58.445 We'll meet up with you later. 01:10:58.504 --> 01:11:01.858 If it's all the same to you, I'd like to finish this. 01:11:01.924 --> 01:11:03.571 That'd be fine. 01:11:04.010 --> 01:11:06.488 All right, let's take a look at where we are. 01:11:06.554 --> 01:11:07.701 - Stokes? - Yeah. 01:11:07.764 --> 01:11:11.789 I got this off an SS officer. He was stationed in Paris. It's a map. 01:11:11.851 --> 01:11:14.625 He had a farmhouse full of stolen art. 01:11:16.731 --> 01:11:19.630 I don't understand. Siegen, Siegen. 01:11:19.692 --> 01:11:23.592 We were there. There's nothing there. Merkers. 01:11:23.863 --> 01:11:25.431 Merkers. 01:11:26.032 --> 01:11:27.805 They're not train routes. 01:11:28.201 --> 01:11:30.804 - Are they airfields? - No. 01:11:31.370 --> 01:11:33.347 Bernterode, Salzburg. 01:11:33.414 --> 01:11:35.892 Sir, that's not Salzburg. 01:11:35.958 --> 01:11:39.528 Salz means "salt." It's a salt mine. 01:11:41.047 --> 01:11:43.320 Kalium is "potassium." 01:11:44.550 --> 01:11:47.699 Each town has a symbol next to it. 01:11:47.762 --> 01:11:51.867 Bernterode is a potassium mine. Merkers, salt mine. 01:11:52.183 --> 01:11:53.876 Altaussee, salt mine. 01:11:54.560 --> 01:11:57.083 - Siegen... - Copper. 01:11:59.065 --> 01:12:00.712 Ah. 01:12:02.235 --> 01:12:04.258 There's a copper mine in Siegen. 01:13:50.760 --> 01:13:54.114 Yesterday we found 16,000 pieces of stolen art 01:13:54.180 --> 01:13:56.783 buried in a German copper mine. 01:13:56.849 --> 01:14:00.999 It seems the Nazis took better care of paintings than they did people. 01:14:01.062 --> 01:14:04.462 There was no sign of the Madonna that cost Donnie his life, 01:14:04.523 --> 01:14:08.878 but maybe we'll have better luck in the next mine, in the town of Merkers. 01:14:09.111 --> 01:14:11.054 Enclosed are your transfer orders. 01:14:11.113 --> 01:14:14.888 We'll need you here, as we've lost both Jeffries and Jean-Claude. 01:14:15.368 --> 01:14:16.515 Safe travels. 01:14:37.682 --> 01:14:39.750 May I offer you a coffee? 01:14:39.809 --> 01:14:41.957 Well, I'm not sure. 01:14:47.775 --> 01:14:49.798 I almost didn't recognize you. 01:14:50.277 --> 01:14:51.754 My hair? 01:14:51.821 --> 01:14:55.016 No, I've just... I've never seen you smile. 01:14:55.449 --> 01:14:59.099 Well, James, it's April in Paris. Haven't you heard? 01:14:59.453 --> 01:15:02.978 - They write songs about it. - Ha, is that so? 01:15:04.792 --> 01:15:06.610 Are you shopping for your wife? 01:15:06.669 --> 01:15:10.273 - For my wife? - Every woman loves French perfume. 01:15:10.339 --> 01:15:11.565 Even French women? 01:15:12.967 --> 01:15:15.115 Especially French women. 01:15:16.303 --> 01:15:19.247 Do you write to your wife every day? 01:15:19.306 --> 01:15:20.623 No. 01:15:21.976 --> 01:15:23.544 But I do write. 01:15:24.103 --> 01:15:25.796 Are you a good husband? 01:15:27.690 --> 01:15:29.133 I like to think so. 01:15:29.191 --> 01:15:33.091 Paris at night finds a lot of good husbands 01:15:33.154 --> 01:15:34.722 out. 01:15:35.948 --> 01:15:37.516 Well, it's war. 01:15:38.492 --> 01:15:40.344 It's Paris, hm? 01:15:45.791 --> 01:15:46.938 Sardines. 01:15:49.837 --> 01:15:51.314 Crackers. 01:15:52.214 --> 01:15:54.191 And some kind of potted meat. 01:15:54.258 --> 01:15:57.282 - Are you having a party? - No. 01:15:57.344 --> 01:15:59.242 No, stocking up. 01:16:01.015 --> 01:16:03.083 My orders came through last night. 01:16:04.268 --> 01:16:06.746 - Mm. - I'm heading east. 01:16:09.356 --> 01:16:10.924 Germany? 01:16:10.983 --> 01:16:15.054 Merkers. There's a mine there. That's where I'll meet the men. 01:16:15.112 --> 01:16:17.965 I was just reading about your men. 01:16:18.032 --> 01:16:19.179 They found art. 01:16:19.867 --> 01:16:21.344 A lot of art. 01:16:21.744 --> 01:16:23.437 And they returned it. 01:16:23.996 --> 01:16:28.602 Well, what they could. We still don't know who a lot of it belongs to. 01:16:29.752 --> 01:16:31.274 When do you leave? 01:16:33.255 --> 01:16:35.278 I leave in the morning. 01:16:37.885 --> 01:16:40.989 Then we should celebrate tonight. 01:16:43.390 --> 01:16:46.744 This is my address. 01:16:48.562 --> 01:16:52.257 You bring the potted meat. I'll bring the wine. 01:16:58.072 --> 01:16:59.799 What's the attire? 01:16:59.865 --> 01:17:02.514 Formal, of course. 01:17:02.576 --> 01:17:06.101 Formal, of course. That's what I thought. 01:17:33.691 --> 01:17:35.293 You weren't kidding. 01:17:36.026 --> 01:17:39.300 Mm. I never kid. 01:17:39.363 --> 01:17:41.431 This is the best I have. 01:17:43.200 --> 01:17:45.018 Why don't you pour the wine? 01:17:45.870 --> 01:17:48.439 I brought some things. I brought some cheese, 01:17:48.497 --> 01:17:50.144 some brie cheese and croissants. 01:17:51.709 --> 01:17:53.186 Very French. 01:17:54.086 --> 01:17:56.280 I cooked a hen. 01:17:56.338 --> 01:17:59.157 - A hen? - Yes. 01:18:00.259 --> 01:18:02.453 It should be ready soon. 01:18:04.889 --> 01:18:07.538 Here, put this on. 01:18:10.394 --> 01:18:13.168 You know, in France, 01:18:13.230 --> 01:18:16.425 if you are given an invitation to a formal party, 01:18:16.483 --> 01:18:18.506 you dress accordingly. 01:18:20.863 --> 01:18:23.341 It matches my eyes. 01:18:25.409 --> 01:18:27.477 Then you may keep it. 01:18:31.081 --> 01:18:33.149 - Rosenberg. Goering. - Mmmm. 01:18:33.209 --> 01:18:35.061 Lohse. Von Behr. 01:18:35.127 --> 01:18:38.071 These are the key figures in the ERR. 01:18:38.130 --> 01:18:40.699 The Staff for Special Purposes. 01:18:40.758 --> 01:18:45.204 They started with the Jewish collectors in 1940. 01:18:45.262 --> 01:18:47.080 You see Stahl? 01:18:47.139 --> 01:18:48.912 The SS farmer. 01:18:48.974 --> 01:18:50.542 Farmer. 01:18:50.601 --> 01:18:52.669 Here he is with Goering. 01:18:52.728 --> 01:18:55.923 Inspecting art to be stolen and shipped to Germany. 01:18:59.151 --> 01:19:02.380 Most of the pieces they would photograph, then take. 01:19:02.446 --> 01:19:07.518 And they would send Hitler albums filled with the stolen artwork. 01:19:07.576 --> 01:19:10.896 And the modern masters, you know, like Picasso, Klee, 01:19:10.955 --> 01:19:12.432 - Yes. - Max Ernst, 01:19:12.498 --> 01:19:15.602 were just burned in the yard. 01:19:15.960 --> 01:19:18.108 Hundreds of paintings. 01:19:18.796 --> 01:19:21.570 And you believe these paintings are in the mines? 01:19:23.467 --> 01:19:24.739 No. 01:19:26.136 --> 01:19:27.738 No, not these. 01:19:40.651 --> 01:19:43.174 This is all I have, James. 01:19:45.155 --> 01:19:46.973 This is my life. 01:19:47.658 --> 01:19:49.260 I understand. 01:19:50.077 --> 01:19:54.432 This is every piece of art that came through the Jeu de Paume. 01:19:54.832 --> 01:20:00.359 Now, I have kept train manifests, receipts, letters for every single piece. 01:20:02.589 --> 01:20:06.319 Who it belonged to, who took it, where they took it. 01:20:06.385 --> 01:20:09.910 I kept a colored mark here for every piece, to match this ledger. 01:20:09.972 --> 01:20:11.494 Jesus Christ. 01:20:13.684 --> 01:20:15.457 I'm giving it to you. 01:20:16.186 --> 01:20:18.709 It's your responsibility now. 01:20:20.524 --> 01:20:22.251 I understand. 01:20:24.528 --> 01:20:28.428 There's a castle in the Bavarian Alps, Neuschwanstein. 01:20:28.907 --> 01:20:31.135 You should find most of the art there. 01:20:33.203 --> 01:20:34.896 Thank you, Claire. 01:20:35.622 --> 01:20:38.976 And you tell them Claire Simone says hello when you get there. 01:20:39.710 --> 01:20:41.858 I'll do just that. 01:20:49.887 --> 01:20:54.288 I am out of wine, but, uh, I have cognac. 01:20:57.144 --> 01:20:58.962 I should go. 01:21:01.648 --> 01:21:03.375 You could stay. 01:21:07.654 --> 01:21:11.509 It's Paris, you know? 01:21:40.938 --> 01:21:43.336 I do love my tie. 01:22:23.522 --> 01:22:25.420 Say, fellas. 01:22:25.482 --> 01:22:26.925 Well, hello! 01:22:27.609 --> 01:22:29.757 - Welcome back. - Welcome back, sir. 01:22:29.820 --> 01:22:33.049 - Good to see you. - How was vacation? 01:22:33.157 --> 01:22:34.759 Ha. Where's Stokes? 01:22:57.014 --> 01:22:59.116 She's not here, is she? 01:23:02.186 --> 01:23:03.754 Who? 01:23:04.855 --> 01:23:06.377 The Madonna. 01:23:08.525 --> 01:23:10.377 Not here, not in Siegen. 01:23:10.444 --> 01:23:12.137 She'll turn up. 01:23:13.071 --> 01:23:15.014 I'm not so sure. 01:23:17.409 --> 01:23:20.513 Donald was so proud of what we're doing here. 01:23:22.039 --> 01:23:24.517 He was proud to be a part of it. 01:23:27.044 --> 01:23:30.523 There will never be a thousand-year Reich. 01:23:31.089 --> 01:23:32.816 No Fatherland. 01:23:34.051 --> 01:23:36.245 No Fuhrer Museum. 01:23:39.306 --> 01:23:42.751 If Jean-Claude and Donald had something to do with that, well, 01:23:43.810 --> 01:23:45.332 I guess it's okay. 01:23:47.523 --> 01:23:49.717 I just have some unfinished business. 01:23:49.775 --> 01:23:51.377 We'll find her. 01:23:52.444 --> 01:23:53.716 Yeah. 01:23:58.617 --> 01:24:00.890 He really wanted it all. 01:24:01.620 --> 01:24:03.393 He wanted everything. 01:24:09.962 --> 01:24:14.033 - Private, what does that sign say? - Uh, "storage." 01:24:14.633 --> 01:24:17.737 - See if there are any lanterns in there. - Yes, sir. 01:24:37.656 --> 01:24:38.973 You okay in there? 01:24:42.995 --> 01:24:44.517 Sam? 01:25:25.370 --> 01:25:27.313 Buried some 1200 feet 01:25:27.372 --> 01:25:29.816 below the ground in a salt mine in Merkers, Germany, 01:25:29.875 --> 01:25:32.979 our Gls discovered over 100 tons of gold bullion, 01:25:33.045 --> 01:25:35.318 the entirety of Germany's reserve. 01:25:35.380 --> 01:25:38.575 A crushing blow to Hitler. Grand news indeed, 01:25:38.634 --> 01:25:43.240 and congratulations to generals Patton, Bradley and Eisenhower. 01:25:48.226 --> 01:25:51.205 The Army may not care much about art, 01:25:51.563 --> 01:25:54.416 but they sure as shit care about gold. 01:25:55.484 --> 01:25:58.303 General Patton, what are you gonna do with the gold? 01:26:02.949 --> 01:26:06.394 - Private, give me a hand. - Yes, sir. 01:26:08.705 --> 01:26:11.558 I don't think you've been properly introduced. 01:26:12.209 --> 01:26:15.358 Sam, that's your neighbor, Mr. Rembrandt. 01:26:18.590 --> 01:26:21.159 You tell your grandfather when you see him. 01:26:22.594 --> 01:26:24.116 Nice to meet you. 01:26:26.640 --> 01:26:29.584 Hey, got us a couple of trucks. 01:26:29.643 --> 01:26:31.745 Do I want to know how? 01:27:31.830 --> 01:27:34.729 A lot of files. Looks like they were burning records. 01:27:35.542 --> 01:27:38.395 It's a bunch of junk. An old pot. 01:27:38.462 --> 01:27:40.485 - Hey, Stokes? - Yeah? 01:27:40.547 --> 01:27:43.571 - Can you come in here for a minute? - Yeah. 01:27:50.974 --> 01:27:53.452 - What have you got? - Stop, stop. 01:27:54.561 --> 01:27:58.040 Stop. I seem to have stepped on a land mine 01:27:58.106 --> 01:28:00.584 of some sort. 01:28:01.818 --> 01:28:04.842 - Why'd you do something like that? - It was a slow day. 01:28:07.157 --> 01:28:09.601 - I wouldn't move. - I'd like to at some point. 01:28:09.659 --> 01:28:12.433 - Campbell, Garfield, get in here! - What'll they do? 01:28:12.496 --> 01:28:14.974 - They're architects. - So they know explosives? 01:28:15.040 --> 01:28:16.813 - It's that or Savitz. - What? 01:28:16.875 --> 01:28:18.818 Boy, it is burned to heck in here. 01:28:18.877 --> 01:28:20.945 Everybody just stay where they are. 01:28:21.004 --> 01:28:24.825 Looks like the lieutenant here is standing on an unexploded mine. 01:28:25.050 --> 01:28:26.322 Why would you do that? 01:28:26.384 --> 01:28:28.612 - I asked him the same thing. - He did. 01:28:31.097 --> 01:28:34.326 Well, you're going to have to... 01:28:35.894 --> 01:28:38.964 - step off of it eventually. - Well, eventually, yes. 01:28:39.022 --> 01:28:44.800 And either the mine is so damaged from the fire that it's a dud... 01:28:44.861 --> 01:28:46.133 How likely is that? 01:28:47.239 --> 01:28:48.966 Most likely. 01:28:50.242 --> 01:28:53.721 But if it's not, there will probably be 01:28:54.120 --> 01:28:56.018 a sizable explosion. 01:29:09.302 --> 01:29:13.282 - How much do you weigh? - Uh, one-seventy-five. 01:29:19.145 --> 01:29:20.963 Grad school, I was 175. 01:29:31.408 --> 01:29:33.101 Now what? 01:29:34.661 --> 01:29:38.857 Well, if we did this right, you just step off. 01:29:45.797 --> 01:29:49.868 Okay, well, what say, uh, you fellas head to the exit? 01:29:50.760 --> 01:29:53.579 I think we'll just hang around and keep you company. 01:29:53.638 --> 01:29:55.411 That's not necessary, Frank. 01:29:56.182 --> 01:29:58.501 I think it is. Fellas? 01:29:58.560 --> 01:30:00.412 I'm not going anywhere. 01:30:00.478 --> 01:30:02.421 I'll be fine right here. 01:30:04.190 --> 01:30:06.634 Yeah, what the hell. 01:30:07.819 --> 01:30:10.638 Okay, James, that's how it's gonna be. 01:30:12.949 --> 01:30:14.301 Well... 01:30:15.327 --> 01:30:19.648 on the off-chance that this thing blows us sky high... 01:30:21.374 --> 01:30:23.476 been an honor serving with you all. 01:30:23.543 --> 01:30:25.611 - Same here. - Agreed. 01:30:27.213 --> 01:30:31.659 Okay, so I'll just count to three and step off. 01:30:31.718 --> 01:30:34.071 - Good. - Take your time. 01:30:47.359 --> 01:30:48.756 One... 01:30:50.320 --> 01:30:53.674 - Goddamn it. - Shit. 01:30:57.077 --> 01:30:59.555 - What happened to two and three? - I panicked. 01:30:59.621 --> 01:31:01.189 Told you it was a dud. 01:31:52.841 --> 01:31:54.238 Picasso. 01:32:07.772 --> 01:32:09.374 Is that gold? 01:32:18.783 --> 01:32:20.476 It's from teeth. 01:33:59.509 --> 01:34:01.156 That's a Rodin. 01:35:31.059 --> 01:35:32.706 Altaussee! 01:35:33.394 --> 01:35:36.213 The Ghent Altarpiece is in the mine at Altaussee. 01:35:36.272 --> 01:35:37.419 What? 01:35:37.482 --> 01:35:39.505 - It's right here. - What did you find? 01:35:39.567 --> 01:35:41.761 - Sam, give us a hand! - What is it? 01:35:46.074 --> 01:35:48.176 It was stored there a year ago. 01:35:48.326 --> 01:35:50.929 - How do you know? - It says nothing after that. 01:35:51.079 --> 01:35:52.522 It's still there. 01:35:55.833 --> 01:35:57.526 Want to go get it? 01:35:59.254 --> 01:36:01.857 You give that Claire a big kiss. 01:36:02.340 --> 01:36:03.487 She'd like that. 01:36:20.942 --> 01:36:24.296 Hey, sarge, we're trying to get to Altaussee. 01:36:24.362 --> 01:36:26.089 Keep going that way. 01:36:26.155 --> 01:36:28.053 - Where you fellas headed? - Home. 01:36:28.116 --> 01:36:29.889 Germany surrendered. War's over. 01:36:29.951 --> 01:36:31.598 - No kidding? - Yeah. 01:36:31.661 --> 01:36:34.310 Ain't there supposed to be a parade or something? 01:36:34.372 --> 01:36:36.315 Probably not in Germany. 01:36:36.374 --> 01:36:38.067 Yeah, right. 01:36:49.304 --> 01:36:52.203 Jesus Christ, they blew the mine. 01:36:52.557 --> 01:36:55.160 - Any other openings? - Two others, blown to shit. 01:36:55.226 --> 01:36:58.045 They stored armaments here, then blew everything up. 01:36:58.104 --> 01:37:00.377 - Who gave the order? War's over. - Ask him. 01:37:00.440 --> 01:37:02.542 Caught a Kraut, Wegner, hiding in town. 01:37:02.608 --> 01:37:05.712 Sam, Savitz, find some locals, get a diagram of the mine. 01:37:05.778 --> 01:37:08.347 - Walter and I can look at the entrances. - Okay. 01:37:08.406 --> 01:37:09.614 - Come on. - Captain, 01:37:09.615 --> 01:37:11.968 - can I talk to that Kraut? - Sure can. 01:37:19.459 --> 01:37:21.903 - Burn your smokes? - Yeah. 01:37:22.420 --> 01:37:23.897 Thanks. 01:37:32.972 --> 01:37:36.246 - I'm told you speak English. - I do. 01:37:36.642 --> 01:37:39.245 - Would you like a cigarette? - Don't smoke. 01:37:40.813 --> 01:37:42.961 I'd like to ask you a few questions. 01:37:43.024 --> 01:37:45.047 So I assumed. 01:37:45.651 --> 01:37:47.799 Why'd you blow the mine? 01:37:49.655 --> 01:37:51.428 What was in the mine? 01:37:52.492 --> 01:37:54.936 Salt, I think. 01:37:55.787 --> 01:37:58.891 - You know the war is over. - Congratulations. 01:38:01.334 --> 01:38:04.108 We believe there are pieces of art in that mine 01:38:04.170 --> 01:38:06.693 that we've been tasked to find. 01:38:07.298 --> 01:38:08.695 Did you take them out? 01:38:09.175 --> 01:38:11.903 What will you offer me for my answer? 01:38:12.804 --> 01:38:14.406 As you say, the war is over. 01:38:15.473 --> 01:38:17.621 I followed orders. I committed no crime. 01:38:17.683 --> 01:38:22.914 According to the Geneva Conventions, I will be released and sent home. 01:38:25.108 --> 01:38:30.465 I was told that before you were sent here, you ran one of those camps. 01:38:31.697 --> 01:38:34.676 - Who told you that? - A little bird. 01:38:36.452 --> 01:38:39.852 - You're not Jewish, lieutenant? - No. 01:38:40.373 --> 01:38:42.521 Then you should thank me. 01:38:50.716 --> 01:38:53.069 You know, I don't smoke either. 01:38:55.054 --> 01:38:56.827 My first cigarette. 01:38:57.849 --> 01:39:00.748 But, mm... 01:39:01.894 --> 01:39:04.247 I want to remember this moment. 01:39:07.233 --> 01:39:09.631 I'm gonna go home soon. 01:39:10.069 --> 01:39:13.514 Got a nice apartment in New York on the Upper West Side. 01:39:13.573 --> 01:39:16.597 There's a deli down the street called Sid's. 01:39:17.577 --> 01:39:19.350 Every morning, 01:39:19.912 --> 01:39:24.142 I walk there and I get a cup of coffee and a bagel, 01:39:24.208 --> 01:39:26.276 and I read the newspaper. 01:39:27.170 --> 01:39:31.776 I think about it every day here. It'll be the first place I go when I get stateside. 01:39:31.841 --> 01:39:36.868 I'm gonna be sitting there, eating one of Sid Meldman's toasted onion bagels 01:39:36.929 --> 01:39:41.535 and reading a tiny article in The New York Times, page... 01:39:42.602 --> 01:39:44.295 18... 01:39:45.188 --> 01:39:47.791 that says you, Colonel Wegner, were hanged 01:39:47.857 --> 01:39:50.551 for your crimes you committed during the war 01:39:50.610 --> 01:39:53.463 and you were buried in an unmarked grave. 01:39:55.615 --> 01:39:58.013 And then I'll think about my cigarette... 01:39:59.785 --> 01:40:04.356 and I'll think about you sitting there with that stupid look on your face. 01:40:09.045 --> 01:40:12.319 Then I'll finish my coffee, 01:40:12.381 --> 01:40:15.485 leave the paper for Sid to wrap fish in. 01:40:16.636 --> 01:40:18.784 I'll never think of you again. 01:40:25.811 --> 01:40:28.164 Sure you don't want that cigarette? 01:40:42.745 --> 01:40:45.894 The Germans didn't blow it! The local miners did! 01:40:45.957 --> 01:40:49.778 They found out the Nazis' plan, sealed the mine entrances to stop them. 01:40:49.835 --> 01:40:51.983 - We'll dig in. - How long will that take? 01:40:52.046 --> 01:40:54.649 A day or two if these miners help us. 01:40:54.715 --> 01:40:57.568 Might wanna move quicker. We got orders to pull out tonight. 01:40:57.635 --> 01:41:00.579 - What orders? - Top brass. 01:41:00.638 --> 01:41:03.992 This territory goes to the Russians. They're moving south now. 01:41:04.058 --> 01:41:06.581 - Should be here tomorrow. - Tomorrow? 01:41:06.644 --> 01:41:08.417 Maybe sooner. 01:41:09.981 --> 01:41:12.083 Do you have any explosives? 01:41:19.198 --> 01:41:21.926 Here we go! Everybody down! 01:41:27.873 --> 01:41:29.771 Maybe I should do this. 01:41:29.834 --> 01:41:31.902 What do you know about explosives? 01:41:31.961 --> 01:41:33.438 Nothing. 01:41:33.796 --> 01:41:35.239 Okay. 01:42:44.283 --> 01:42:47.512 We're short one. We're missing one. 01:42:47.578 --> 01:42:51.603 - You've gotta be kidding me. - We're missing a goddamn panel. 01:43:06.597 --> 01:43:10.327 We have to go, fellas, unless you speak Russian! 01:43:11.143 --> 01:43:12.723 We've covered all this area. 01:43:12.770 --> 01:43:13.991 We didn't look here. 01:43:14.021 --> 01:43:15.714 - We did. - We didn't look here. 01:43:15.773 --> 01:43:18.126 This is us right now. This is where we have to go. 01:43:18.192 --> 01:43:19.669 This is this. 01:43:19.735 --> 01:43:23.180 No, this is where we are now. And this is where we didn't look. 01:43:23.239 --> 01:43:26.183 We were here, we went over here. Where didn't we go? 01:43:26.242 --> 01:43:29.016 We didn't go here and we didn't go there. 01:43:29.078 --> 01:43:31.272 Yeah, we gotta... This, this. 01:43:31.330 --> 01:43:33.273 - Give me a hand, will you? - What? 01:43:36.669 --> 01:43:40.490 You are going to miss me so much when this is over. 01:43:40.548 --> 01:43:41.945 I doubt it. 01:43:48.806 --> 01:43:50.579 Okay. 01:43:57.648 --> 01:44:00.171 Right now you wish that German had shot you. 01:44:01.694 --> 01:44:03.137 I do. 01:44:11.996 --> 01:44:15.396 - Get out of here now, I'm not kidding. - I'm going after Stokes. 01:44:15.458 --> 01:44:17.481 Be right behind you, captain! 01:44:21.881 --> 01:44:23.699 Stokes! 01:44:28.220 --> 01:44:29.788 Frank, we gotta go! 01:44:45.237 --> 01:44:46.680 Stokes! 01:44:49.575 --> 01:44:51.018 Stokes! 01:45:44.129 --> 01:45:45.981 Let's get out of here. 01:45:50.886 --> 01:45:52.533 Hey. 01:45:54.682 --> 01:45:57.080 - Hey, hey, we gotta go. - Give me a hand. 01:45:57.142 --> 01:46:00.246 - No, no, Frank, we gotta go. - Give me a hand. 01:46:02.273 --> 01:46:05.001 - Holy shit. - Come on, give me a hand. 01:46:05.150 --> 01:46:07.298 - Holy shit. - Stokes! 01:46:07.361 --> 01:46:09.054 Granger! 01:46:09.864 --> 01:46:11.011 Jesus. 01:46:11.073 --> 01:46:13.693 - We gotta get out of here. - Give us a hand. 01:46:14.910 --> 01:46:17.183 - Holy shit! - He just said that. 01:46:17.329 --> 01:46:18.931 I did. 01:46:27.172 --> 01:46:30.617 You can add this to the long list of Hitler's failures. 01:46:30.676 --> 01:46:33.825 He tried to take something that could never be his. 01:46:33.888 --> 01:46:38.915 The story of our lives painted on canvas or etched in stone. 01:46:39.518 --> 01:46:41.712 With the Russians bearing down on us, 01:46:41.770 --> 01:46:44.248 we left Altaussee with some 3000 pieces, 01:46:44.315 --> 01:46:50.218 including the Ghent Altarpiece and the Bruges Madonna and Child. 01:46:50.863 --> 01:46:53.512 We did leave something for our Russian friends 01:46:53.574 --> 01:46:55.426 to take back to Leningrad. 01:47:07.379 --> 01:47:11.734 We headed northwest. Savitz and Campbell flew the Altarpiece to Belgium. 01:47:11.967 --> 01:47:18.200 It was displayed in Brussels and then returned to the chapel in St. Bavo. 01:47:27.191 --> 01:47:30.170 With Second Lieutenant James Granger, 01:47:30.235 --> 01:47:33.555 several trainloads of French art found in a castle 01:47:33.614 --> 01:47:36.263 in Bavaria were returned to Paris. 01:47:45.250 --> 01:47:47.068 Thank you, James. 01:47:55.052 --> 01:47:57.405 Everything from paintings to sculptures, 01:47:58.097 --> 01:48:00.950 tapestries, even jewelry, is being returned. 01:48:01.016 --> 01:48:06.794 It is the greatest collection of private art in the history of the world. 01:48:07.106 --> 01:48:10.005 We also found 5000 church bells, 01:48:10.067 --> 01:48:13.421 300 trolley cars, 3 million books, 01:48:13.487 --> 01:48:15.715 and thousands of Torahs. 01:48:17.950 --> 01:48:20.018 In all, the numbers are staggering. 01:48:20.077 --> 01:48:23.477 There were over 5 million pieces recovered. 01:48:36.093 --> 01:48:40.369 There are still, of course, many great works that have gone missing. 01:48:40.431 --> 01:48:43.034 Raphael's Portrait of a Young Man, for instance. 01:48:43.100 --> 01:48:46.329 And with your permission, I'd like to keep looking for him. 01:48:47.312 --> 01:48:50.916 Well, lieutenant, let me have a talk with Secretary Stimson here 01:48:50.983 --> 01:48:53.927 - and I'll give you an answer. - Thank you, sir. 01:48:54.319 --> 01:48:57.047 And you lost men on this mission, lieutenant? 01:48:57.114 --> 01:49:01.094 Yes, sir, two men. A Frenchman named Jean-Claude Clermont 01:49:11.128 --> 01:49:13.105 And a Brit named Donald Jeffries, 01:49:13.172 --> 01:49:16.367 who lost his life saving the Bruges Madonna and Child. 01:49:16.425 --> 01:49:19.324 Lieutenant Stokes, I have one question. 01:49:19.386 --> 01:49:22.239 - You said the Madonna. - Yes, sir, the Bruges Madonna. 01:49:22.306 --> 01:49:25.285 - Michelangelo made it, right? - Yes, sir. 01:49:25.350 --> 01:49:29.045 - And you lost a man trying to save it. - Donald Jeffries. 01:49:29.104 --> 01:49:32.299 You think it was worth it, for a piece of art? 01:49:33.275 --> 01:49:37.346 Do you think Jeffries would say it was worth it, if he could speak? 01:49:38.363 --> 01:49:40.261 If he could speak... 01:49:43.786 --> 01:49:45.513 I think he would. 01:49:46.538 --> 01:49:49.016 All right then, how about you, lieutenant? 01:49:49.083 --> 01:49:52.562 You were in charge, and this gets to the heart of the matter. 01:49:52.628 --> 01:49:55.072 Do you think 30 years from now, 01:49:55.130 --> 01:50:00.828 anyone's going to remember that these men died for a piece of art? 01:50:13.398 --> 01:50:14.920 Yeah. 01:50:25.410 --> 01:50:27.933 - You ready? - Yeah. 01:50:28.080 --> 01:50:31.104 - Let's get out of here. - Okay. 01:50:32.228 --> 01:50:43.228 Telegram Channel and Instagram Page .:: @bollbolljan_com ::.