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Heists

  • 2015-2017
  • 1 season
  • Documentary, Suspense

Documentary series revealing the stories behind some of the world's biggest heists, featuring eyewitness accounts and dramatic reconstructions of events.

Season 1 Episode Guide

6 Episodes 2015 - 2017

Episode 1

Britain's Biggest Bank Job

60 mins

Episode 2

Britain's Biggest Armed Robbery - Brinks Mat

45 mins

Charts the events, and legacy, of Britain's biggest armed robbery - the notorious Brink's-Mat heist of 1983. An armed gang stole more than twenty-six million pounds worth of gold bullion, diamonds and cash from a depot near Heathrow.

Episode 3

World's Biggest Diamond Heist

45 mins

The incredible story of how a gang breached what was thought to be one of the most secure vaults in the world, the Antwerp World Diamond Centre, to steal around ninety-one million pounds worth of diamonds, gold and jewellery.

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Episode 4

Britain's Biggest Cash Grab

45 mins

In February 2006, £53 million in cash was stolen from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent. A crime so costly it threatened the economic stability of the UK and saw the robbers take hostages, forcing them to help gain access to the vaults.

Heists Season 1 Britain's Biggest Cash Grab

Episode 5

Stealing the Mona Lisa

45 mins

A look back to 1911 when one of the world's most famous works of art, the Mona Lisa, was stolen from one of the most famous museums in the world, the Louvre in Paris.

Episode 6

Secrets of the Great Train Robbery

45 mins

A look at one of the most famous heists in history, when over two and a half million pounds were stolen from the Glasgow to London Royal Mail train. The robbery was littered with mistakes, bad decisions and careless errors by the gang.

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