This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist (Season 1)

This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist (2021) is the Netflix true-crime series you can watch online on iFILM. Late on the night after St. Patrick's Day, two men in police uniforms talked their way through the side door of Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and walked out with hundreds of millions in paintings.

In eighty-one minutes the guards were tied up and the walls lost a Vermeer, three Rembrandts and a Manet. Three decades on, nothing has come back and nobody has been charged — the empty frames still hang where the canvases once did, kept there by the founder's will. Director Colin Barnicle assembles the case from reporters, retired FBI agents and the local mob names that kept surfacing in every theory.

Across four episodes it digs less into the break-in itself than the sticky world around it: Boston's underworld, collector vanity, dead-end leads. Good for anyone who likes their true crime unvarnished and is fine with an open ending instead of a tidy solve. Stream the series online on iFILM.