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Stealing Klimt recounts the struggle by 90-year-old Maria Altmann to recover five Gustav Klimt paintings stolen from her family by the Nazis in Vienna. From the end of the War up until last year, these paintings hung in the Austrian National Gallery. The film covers Maria's early life in glittering fin-de-siècle Vienna, her dramatic escape from Nazi terror and her courageous fight to recover the five Klimt's against all the odds. Maria's fight to reclaim the paintings eventually took her to the United States Supreme Court and pitted her not just against Austria but also against the US Government which asked the Supreme Court to reject her case. After Maria finally emerged victorious in 2006, one of the paintings - the "Golden Portrait" of Maria's aunt, Adele Bloch Bauer - was sold to cosmetics tycoon Ronald Lauder for $135m, becoming the world's most expensive painting ever sold. The other four paintings were recently auctioned at Christie's for record prices.
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Pharaoh's Revenge: Egypt's Lost Treasure cuenta la historia de la momia de Ramsés I en su regreso, 150 años después, a Luxor en 2003. Ramsés I, el fundador de la 19ª dinastía de Egipto, gobernó desde 1293 hasta 1291 a.C. Pero su momia fue sacada de Egipto para exhibirla en un museo canadiense en la década de 1850, cortesía de los ladrones de tumbas que la vendieron al exilio. Ahora, con la ayuda de un museo en Atlanta, la reliquia egipcia regresa a casa a un lugar reservado especialmente para la momia y desata historias de los viajes de un faraón.
