A working class boy who got into trouble that posh boys would have walked away from and then turned the tables on the class system. Well done.

My old art collage teacher used to buy horrible old Victorian paintings , just for the canvas and stretcher clean off the original painting then paint a forgery that nobody could distinguish …

I can watch this documentary, just for the music…

There is/was nothing 'honest' about this jamoke. It amazes me that he was allowed to exchange gases with the atmosphere for as long as he did. He would never have been a great artist in any time period. He was a forger...a copycat...a fake. Narcissists do not have the capacity to face reality. He would have been a great addition to the current Trump administration. Pompous gasbag. He got what he deserved.

Incredible brave men! I'm always amazed at at what these Soviet men were able to achieve under Communism

That intro is epic af

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45:13 sounds like modern day Britain

Hebborns work is stunning! I would happily give any of it a home

I saw this docu many times and the music in combination with the genius of Eric Hebborn makes me happy, enchanted and also a bit humble (being an artist myself). LOVE this documantary thanks a lot!

The Soviet system was and the Russian system is even more evil. Slava Ucraini 🇺🇦!

Interesting but he's so wrong about how ine shouldn't worry who the drawings are from. When I go to a museum I want to see a Leonardo drawing. Not one that is a good passing copy. Sure, I would like a good passing copy to hang in my modest home but no, I want to see an original drawing from a great genius in the Metropolitan. Call me nutsy, call me crazy. And by the way, although his DaVinci drawings are ok in the form and clothing, the expressions miss the mark by a mile so that even I who have no training could pick it out very very easily as a fake.

The experts can’t handle not really being experts they were fooled.

Even documentaries years ago were beautiful, this was really beautiful to watch, he had such a pleasant way of doing things, he seemed like an interesting guy. I'm an artist, i would love to be taught by him.

I sincerely hope @1:50 is a mis-translation 😂😂😂

who is this "outhg not to" person @ 36:52 with an interesting accent?

que lastima que este magnifico reportaje no este doblado al español europeo este es el camino

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What is the song played around ten minutes in? So great

Pornography it's gotten away with it, when it has art in front of it... there are a few people that would rather not do the nude . Yes I did say a few. LOL

Sotheby's....a bunch of self important fools. Kinda like all large organizations with some sort of power and money.

Did this man seriously just claim that LSD cured his colour-blindness??? Lmao 😂😅

GOOD ON ERIC HEBBORN...HE'S A MASTER IN HIS OWN RIGHT. SUPERB X FASCINATING DOCO❤❤❤

Question: "Will There Be, The Terrible Black Bear?" Answer: "Only Time Will Tell."

Charismatic sociopath.

my father worked on the joint Apollo-Soyuz mission and was impressed that Russian space technology wasn't fancy but robust enough to get the job done

There are loads of documentaries on art forgers here on KZbin. However many are made and however many works of art are exposed as not by the attributed artist nothing about the art market will change. Money speaks louder than art.

I found this documentary through reading Celebration by Graham David Smith

So much information to be gleaned from these talented writers and artists. I have gained such an appreciation for the history of Western America and it changes the way I look at the stories they tell.

Hebborn was later murdered in Rome.

what a sad tail of failure

Elastic judgement pompous snot really cracked me up!..god so many wonderful cameos in the video.

Mr Percy story reminds me of a nude I had drawn...and the hostel master discovered at the back of my biology book, and his pious beliefs misconstrued it as unadulterated porn!...Thanks for this wonderful post.

You might also enjoy his autobiography, 'Drawn to Trouble'. He wrote a later book, more an 'apologia' (not, apology!) which I didn't enjoy so much. The self justification became a bit tedious and even whiny in places. But a fascinating character. And I wish I could draw a tenth as well!

🤮I was enjoying this tale ...UNTIL he pointed out that he was a MARMITE MINER 🤮

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This raises some questions. Does art only have value because of the person who made it ? Does it have no intrinsic value as a beautiful object ? If you’re only buying a name who cares ? You don’t care about beauty . Just the name on the bottom. A bad Picasso should not be worth more than a beautiful painting by your auntie who follows Bob Ross. Ugly is ugly, Beauty is Beauty and people who care about names have created this market, leave them to it.

21:34 One of the most unappealing accents I have ever heard.

Estimated value of fakes he sold ...$300 MILLION .... not small money ...

Minute 13:42 - can someone tell me what drawing this is? by whom originally?

Us bragging about moon only..and soviets first setelite ..first man..first in outer space...and so on😂

I take great comfort in watching this - it takes me back to a time when the pace of life was much slower.

Wow, great, just to being able to hear somebody say: I'm the first one on this moon, and it's a great step for you, ok. It was not a "great step" for me, and he may keep the dust that he collected also: I'd prefered if he'd wiped the dust under my sofa.

They build great space ships but ,what a mess they make of cars.

This is such amazing footage to have. From a time and a culture that no longer really exists. The interviews are fantastic. Such a treasure.

Russian are a great people, They took a great hit in ww2 . They sacified a lot of men and women. I wish someone can tell them thank you.

National hospital for mean bears? They gonna labotomize him. This is a dark toon Inever realized that.

A wonderful documentary. Worth seeing for the new generations of heirs of western seudo-communists, brainwashed in their universities

We could have had "peaceful coexistence" with the USSR, but our military-industrial complex saw a big money game that it could milk. If you meet someone from the old USSR, you find that they're warm, friendly people who want wanted no conflict with us. Yes, their political system was, like ours, flawed and rife with brutality and opportunism. When the Soviet system broke up, we constantly sought to strip it financially and control it for American profit. The Russia of today is the result, a dysfunctional beast that's internally unstable and loaded with nuclear firepower. Putin is a result of America's pursuit of political hegemony, and he's embedded like a huge tick that neither we nor the rest of the world can placate or remove. Until Putin is out -- through imprisonment or death -- we'll be facing world war and instability. Our leaders are responsible for our constant preparation for actual hostilities during the so-called "post-Cold War" period. We're fools as a Nation to have not realized this, and it's now very late to be trying to stop our march to a shooting war with Russia. It feels almost inevitable that we'll have our troops in Ukraine, which will draw China to pursue its ownership claim on Taiwan which we'll not stop.