
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?

Lt. Frank Stokes

Lt. James Granger

Sgt. Richard Campbell

Sgt. Walter Garfield

Claire Simone

2nd Lt. Donald Jeffries

Colonel Langton

2nd Lt. Jean-Claude Clermont

Pvt. Preston Savitz
George Clooney starred, co-wrote and directed this interesting wartime drama. It centres around an elite squad sent to try to rescue precious works of art from the retreating Nazi war machine. Not elite in an SAS or SEAL type military sense, but dedicated to identifying and preserving these artefacts that could be anything from a small painting to a life-sized statue. Historically and logistically it is all over the place, but it has a feel-good sentiment to it for the most part. It focusses on another quite visceral, but perhaps less often considered aspect of the atrocities to posterity carr...
Status Released
Original LanguageEnglish
Budget$70,000,000.00
Revenue $154,984,035.00