Footage From "The Monuments Men"

Sneak Peek new images and footage from actor/director George Clooney’s WW II 'heist' film "The Monuments Men", based on a true story, starring Clooney, John Goodman, Bob Balaban, Bill Murray, Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin and Hugh Bonneville, opening December 18, 2013:

"...based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, 'The Monuments Men' is an action-thriller focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon...



"...tasked by President Roosevelt with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Axis 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..."

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