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Synopsis: Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys - seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 - possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind's greatest achievements.
Genre: Drama, History, War
Director(s): George Clooney
Production: Sony Pictures
  3 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
30%
PG-13
Year:
2014
118 min
$67,239,378
Website
3,699 Views


It's not bad.

- Eh, it's not good.

- This photograph

has been obtained by the OSS.

It's a model of his planned

fuhrer Museum,

to be built in his hometown

of Linz in Austria.

Fuhrer Museum?

It'd be one of the biggest in the world.

Gonna take a lot of art to fill that up.

Exactly right.

We already know he's stealing art from

Amsterdam, Warsaw, and from Paris.

The French are hiding it,

the Germans are finding and taking it.

This is why Hitler

didn't bomb Paris.

He bombed London.

Yes, I know.

Have they started building?

No. That's the point.

They're stealing the art

and hiding it somewhere.

We think they're hiding it in homes

in this area and towards the east.

Our boys are in Normandy

giving them hell,

so that means it's our turn next,

over the Channel and into France.

When?

Soon.

We're gonna start with James.

He has a friend in Paris,

director of the National Museum.

If he's still alive.

If he's alive, he'll have some idea

where the French art has been hidden.

We need that information.

Lieutenant,

you'll cross the Channel to Deauville.

A contact named Emile

will get you into Paris.

Well, it's a good thing

I'm fluent in French.

Do we get to kill anybody?

I don't know about you guys,

but I'd like to kill somebody.

You want to shoot Hitler, private?

I wouldn't mind it.

And Richard, if you call me "private"

again, I will take a shot at you.

Okay, so that's it.

We'll ship out in the next few days.

Although the war is coming to an end,

it isn't any less dangerous.

So walk carefully,

take no undue chances.

And remember that your lives

are more important than a piece of art.

Sarge, can you tell us where to find

command and control?

Just got here?

Yeah.

Top brass command post is about

a quarter-mile that way, past K.P.

Thanks!

What?

If you'd read the orders...

I don't give a sh*t.

The orders say,

"Don't knock out old buildings..."

To be fair...

Do not interrupt me!

If you think I'll write home

to some kid's mom

saying her boy's dead because we couldn't

take out a church tower, I will not.

So have at it.

Anything else?

No, sir.

I think that went well.

Looks like we're walking.

Don't stand there.

Come in.

What are you doing here?

Looking for you.

Sit down.

Do you know why I'm here?

Mm.

You have a brother. Peter, yes?

Yes, you do.

Are you close?

He's my brother.

Why didn't you tell me

he fought for the Resistance?

He doesn't.

He doesn't now.

He was shot this morning.

He was trying to steal a truck.

A truck filled with artwork

going to Germany.

And he was shot dead.

How do you think he knew

about that truck?

You see, Claire,

because you know the museum,

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George Clooney

George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and businessman. He has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work as an actor and two Academy Awards, one for acting in Syriana (2006) and the other for co-producing Argo (2012). Clooney made his acting debut on television in 1978, and later gained wide recognition in his role as Dr. Doug Ross on the long-running medical drama ER from 1994 to 1999, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. While working on ER, he began attracting a variety of leading roles in films, including the superhero film Batman & Robin (1997) and the crime comedy Out of Sight (1998), in which he first worked with director Steven Soderbergh, who would become a long-time collaborator. In 1999, he took the lead role in Three Kings, a well-received war satire set during the Gulf War. In 2001, Clooney's fame widened with the release of his biggest commercial success, the heist comedy remake Ocean's Eleven, the first of what became a trilogy starring Clooney. He made his directorial debut a year later with the biographical spy comedy Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and has since directed the historical drama Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), the sports comedy Leatherheads (2008), the political drama The Ides of March (2011), and the war film The Monuments Men (2014). Clooney won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the Middle East thriller Syriana (2005), and subsequently earned Best Actor nominations for the legal thriller Michael Clayton (2007) and the comedy-dramas Up in the Air (2009) and The Descendants (2011). In 2013, he received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the political thriller Argo. He is the only person who has been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories.In 2009, Clooney was included in Time's annual Time 100 as one of the "Most Influential People in the World". He is also noted for his political and economic activism, and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since January 31, 2008. His humanitarian work includes his advocacy of finding a resolution for the Darfur conflict, raising funds for the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Armenian Genocide recognition, 2004 tsunami, 9/11 victims, and creating documentaries such as Sand and Sorrow to raise awareness about international crises. Clooney helped fund the March for Our Lives after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2013, Clooney co-founded Casamigos Tequila with Rande Gerber and Michael Meldman. It was sold to Diageo for $700 million in June 2017, with an additional $300 million possible depending on the company's performance over the next ten years. He is married to British human rights lawyer Amal Clooney. more…

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