Masterminds was a true crime

True crime (genre)

True crime is a non-fiction literary and film genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people.The crimes most commonly include murder, but true crime works have also touched on other legal cases. Depending on the writer, true crime can adhere strictly to...

 documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 television series produced in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 with truTV (formerly Court TV).

As of February 2011, the program is broadcast on History Television

History Television

History Television is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel that presents programming about history and some non-historical programming of military, science and technology interest. It is owned by Shaw Media. Its French language counterpart is Historia.The channel operates two...

 and Global TV in Canada and truTV in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

.

Each 30 minute episode features one true crime story. The profiled crimes generally involve large sums of cash or merchandise and, more important, extremely unique and/or elaborate methods of criminal operation which were never before (and sometimes never since) seen by law enforcement agencies. With a few notable exceptions, most criminals profiled in this series were caught within a couple of years of committing their crime(s).

List of Episodes

Season & Episode	Show Title	Subject
1-01	The Anthon Forgeries	Mark Hoffmann
1-02	The Dunbar Heist	Dunbar Armored robbery Dunbar Armored robbery The Dunbar Armored robbery is the largest cash robbery to have occurred in the United States. It occurred in 1997 at the Dunbar Armored facility in Los Angeles, California. The thieves made off with some US$18.9 million....
1-03	The Knightsbridge Heist	Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery The Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery took place on 12 July 1987 in Knightsbridge, England, part of the City of Westminster in London. This robbery, the Banco Central burglary at Fortaleza, and the $900 million stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq in 2003 are said to be the largest bank...
1-04	Man Called Hollywood	Scott Scurlock
1-05	Double Crossed
1-06	The Laguna Niguel Heist	Amil Dinisio
1-07	A Smuggler Supreme	Brian O'Dea
1-08	Art Fraud
1-09	The Hotel Pierre Fraud	Bobby Comfort
1-10	The Perfect Score	William Smarto
1-11	Harn
1-12	A Day at the Races
1-13	The Stopwatch Heist	Paddy Mitchell
1-14	King of Car Thieves	Bill Dhaliwal
1-15	The Riviera Job	Albert Spaggiari
1-16	The Dinner Set Gang	Peter Salerno and Dominick Latella
1-17	Safe Landing
1-18	The Forger's Art
1-19	Fool's Gold	Michael de Guzman and Bre-X Bre-X Bre-X was a group of companies in Canada. A major part of the group, Bre-X Minerals Ltd. based in Calgary, was involved in a major gold mining scandal when it was reported to be sitting on an enormous gold deposit at Busang, Indonesia...
1-20	The Bandit Queen	Judy Amar Judy Amar For other uses of the term The Bandit Queen, see The Bandit Queen .Judy Amar is an American former thief, known by the police given nickname The Bandit Queen.-References:- External links :* *...
1-21	A Gem of a Heist
2-01	James Bond Gang
2-02	The Dublin Job	Martin Cahill
2-03	Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief
2-04	The Friday Night Robber
2-05	The Kansas City Diamond Heist
2-06	The Silver Bandit
2-07	The Cairo Caper
2-08	Slot Machine Genius	Tommy Lee Carmichael
2-09	The Jewelry Show Job	Tony Gramins
2-10	Air America
2-11	The Memorial Day Heist
2-12	The Disappearing Man
2-13	The Superthief	Jack McClean
2-14	The Stander Gang	Andre Stander
2-15	Crazy Eddie	Electronics chain store Crazy Eddie Crazy Eddie Crazy Eddie is the name of a consumer electronics retailer conducting business through the internet and by telephone. The venture is the most recent to be doing business under the Crazy Eddie name, with the most well known being a chain of retail stores that operated throughout New York, New...
2-16	The Brinks Matt (sic) Robbery	Brink's-MAT robbery Brink's-MAT robbery The Brink's-MAT robbery occurred on 26 November 1983 when six robbers broke into the Brink's-MAT warehouse at Heathrow Airport, London. The robbers thought they were going to steal £3 million in cash; however, when they arrived, they found three tonnes of gold bullion...
2-17	The Jacksonville Heist
2-18	Leader of the Pack	Aaron Rogers
2-19	The ConRail Boyz
2-20	Hot Wheels
2-21	Stealing History	Jonathan Tokeley-Parry Jonathan Tokeley-Parry Jonathan Tokeley-Parry is a British restorer and who is notable for smuggling more than 3000 pieces of Egyptian antiquities out of Egypt by disguising them as reproductions.-References:...
2-22	The Phantom Bandit	Gilber Galvan
2-23	Making Millions	Steven Jory
3-01	The Air Cargo Millions
3-02	Halloween Heist
3-03	The Social Register Gang	Raymond Flynn
3-04	Stealing Vegas
3-05	Maid in the Shade	Carrie Lee Jenkins
3-06	Money Bags	Maurizio Percan
3-07	The Berlin Heist
3-08	The Highway Robber	David Brankle
3-09	The Great Escape	Jeffrey Manchester
3-10	Off The Rack	Clothing theft on New York's Fashion Avenue
3-11	The Art of Double Dealing	Ely Sakhai
3-12	Motorcycle Bandit	Roni Leibovitz
3-13	The Invisible Man	Stephen Blumberg
4-01	The Museum Heist	James Quinn
4-02	It Takes a Thief	Paul Mathieson
4-03	Foul Ball	Wayne Bray
4-04	The Transylvania Job	University of Transylvania rare book collection theft
4-05	Mission Impossible Burglar	Steven Krueger
4-06	Money Maker	Wesley Weber Wesley Weber Wesley Weber was a Canadian who succeeded in counterfeiting the Canadian hundred-dollar bill. Because of this, many stores stopped accepting $100 dollar bills until the note was redesigned...
4-07	The Copycat Millions	El Sakhai
4-08	Imposters: Bad Medicine	Gerald Barnbaum Gerald Barnbaum Gerald Barnbaum , aka "Gerald Barnes", is a former pharmacist and convicted felon who posed as a medical doctor during the 1970s - 1990s.... /Barnes
4-09	The Millenium Diamond	Millennium Dome raid Millennium Dome raid On 7 November 2000, a criminal gang attempted to steal the flawless Millennium Star diamond valued at over £200 million, from an exhibition at the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, London.The robbers had been under police surveillance before the heist...

External links

• Masterminds schedule at History Television
• Red apple entertainment - Masterminds production company (dead link)
• Masterminds on YouTube
• Masterminds on OVGuide