Clooney’s ‘The Monuments Men’ Go Treasure Hunting In Great Featurette

A brand new featurette has been unearthed for director and actor George Clooney’s all-star historical drama THE MONUMENTS MEN.

The film, based on the same-titled novel by Robert M. Edsel, centres on the secret group of art specialists chosen by the U.S. government to retrieve artwork stolen by the Nazis during World War II. Joining “gorgeous George” in the cast are Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Hugh Bonneville, Bob Balaban, John Goodman, Bill Murray, Jean Dujardin and you can take a closer look at the fact-based events below the official plot synopsis.

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 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.