From the narrow streets of Nice to the gleaming corridors of Wall Street, Daring Capers tracks some of the world's most fascinating criminals and their audacious crimes. Here's a rogue's gallery of bank robbers, art thieves, and debonair con artists who tried to steal their way to wealth through brilliant ploys and slick transactions.

10 Episodes

  • The Knightsbridge Heist
    E1
    The Knightsbridge HeistAn Italian playboy committed the world's largest armed robbery, making off with over $65 million from a safe deposit center London, and triggering a world-class game of cat-and-mouse. The only clue to the thief's identity was a single fingerprint!
  • Cops and Robbers
    E2
    Cops and RobbersPolice officers and criminals inhabit the same dark world of scams and schemes. But what happens when the line blurs between the cops... and the robbers?
  • Berlin Tunnel Gangsters
    E3
    Berlin Tunnel GangstersA look at a bank robbery in Germany in which thieves disappeared with $3.5 million in German marks by tunneling out of the building.
  • 90 Second Bandits
    E4
    90 Second BanditsBank robbers who used a stopwatch to time their heists in Canada and the U.S
  • The Pilfering Professor
    E5
    The Pilfering ProfessorAn art-theft conspiracy in England that hit at least 27 institutions and got away with over $3 million in antiquities.
  • The Brinks Heist
    E6
    The Brinks HeistIn WWII Germany, U.S. Army officers break through a castle wall to plunder a royal treasure. For the thieves, it was the dream of a lifetime. But to U.S. authorities, recovering the treasure was a matter of national honor.
  • Hesse Jewels
    E7
    Hesse JewelsExamining the theft of the Crown Jewels of Hesse (which included nine diamond-studded tiaras) from Kronberg Castle in Germany.
  • Queen of Jewels
    E8
    Queen of JewelsA cunning jewel thief leads police on a chase that spans the globe and lasts a decade. Authorities all over the world seem powerless as they pursue a brilliant woman they come to know as "the Queen of Jewels".
  • Earl Spencer's Best Man
    E9
    Earl Spencer's Best ManA criminal conspiracy threatens to wipe out England's cultural heritage - one robbery at a time. Police struggle to catch an obsessed thief as artifacts worth millions disappear into London's underworld.
  • Tunnel 57
    E10
    Tunnel 57Examining a tunnel dug beneath the Berlin Wall in the mid 1960s that allowed 57 men, women and children to flee East Germany.

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