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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
3,766 Views


but they've taken everything with them,

so we have to get as close

to the front as we can.

Preston,

you and Campbell

head towards Belgium.

Specifically, Ghent.

- What's in Ghent?

- It used to be the Altarpiece.

They took the Ghent Altarpiece?

I'll go with Garfield.

No, Garfield, you and Jean-Claude

get as close to Germany as you can,

to the city of Aachen.

We'll leave in the morning.

Why don't you take

Sam from Newark with you,

and I'll head up to my old

stomping ground, Bruges?

There's a Madonna there

I used to see when I was young.

Looks like we're gonna be

together, buddy.

These are German,

but they might fit.

That one will do just fine.

Watch this.

Any news of Granger?

Well, word is they liberated Paris,

so we should know something soon.

Turn that knob right there.

Well, I'll be blowed.

See, I'm not just a pretty face.

How's it going, Edison?

Would you take that radio

over there to the boys?

Let's see if this damn thing works.

You bet.

Frank, I wanted to say thanks.

For what?

For another chance.

Donnie, we've all screwed up

on some level.

Yours was just...

Just at a high level.

You're here because you're

the best man for the job.

Not charity?

Well, a little.

Monuments Men Radio

is about to go live.

I hope we play music.

Calling London,

calling London and all the ships at sea.

We read you loud and clear.

How far will this thing reach?

We'll find out tomorrow.

Roger that.

Are all the fellas there?

They are.

All right, listen up, fellas.

I think you should know the truth

as I see it.

This mission was never designed

to succeed.

It's, uh...

If they were honest,

they would tell us that.

They'd tell us that with this many

people dying, who cares about art?

They're wrong, because that's exactly

what we're fighting for,

for our culture and for our way of life.

You can wipe out

a generation of people,

you can burn their homes to the ground,

and somehow they'll still come back.

But if you destroy their achievements

and their history,

then it's like they never existed.

Just ash floating.

That's what Hitler wants.

And it's the one thing

we simply can't allow.

I'll see you in the morning.

Now I'm depressed.

I want to make a toast.

Uh-oh.

Um, I think you fellas are...

And I'm proud to be a

Monuments Man.

When this all broke out, I wanted to

be a flier pilot... A fighter pilot.

But I got bad eyes,

my hearing is not good.

Right here is the only way

I get into this war.

Now, I'm not some

New York socialite,

I haven't won any awards

like all of you, but...

But I'm guessing you feel the same.

This is our time.

My country thanks you,

and I thank you.

Screw the Germans.

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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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