The Monuments Men

The Monuments Men (2014) is George Clooney's wartime drama, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Clooney directs and leads a cast that includes Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman and Cate Blanchett.

The story digs into a corner of the Second World War most films skip. A handful of art historians, curators and museum directors trade their galleries for army uniforms and head toward the front. Their orders sound odd for soldiers: find, not fight. As the Reich collapses, the Nazis have stashed Europe's paintings, statues and altarpieces in salt mines and castles, with standing instructions to torch everything rather than surrender it. These middle-aged, untrained men race to reach the hiding places before the explosives or the advancing armies do.

Clooney and Grant Heslov wrote the screenplay from Robert Edsel's book about a genuine Allied unit. The film keeps asking a hard question between its lighter beats: is a single life worth a rescued Vermeer? Stream The Monuments Men (2014) online on iFILM.