In 1990, in the early morning hours after St. Patrick’s Day, thieves disguised as policemen gained access into Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner museum and successfully executed the largest art heist in modern history. Stolen brings the audience on a journey to understand not just a crime, but also the nature of beauty itself - its fragility and its power.

According to the FBI, the thieves stole thirteen works of art valued at over $300 million, including a painting by Vermeer (The Concert) and three Rembrandts (including his only seascape The Storm on the Sea of Galilee).

Still unsolved, museum still displays the paintings' empty frames in their original locations due to the strict provisions of Gardner's will, which instructed that the collection be maintained unchanged.

Each year The American Film Institute announces its ten official selections for AFI Awards, which recognize the year’s most outstanding achievements in film.

This year's list included big budget blockbusters, an independent directorial debut which swept Sundance and bravuro performances from actors some critics had counted past their prime.

A few of the films recognized suffered such "production hell" that it was suprising that they made it to the big screen.

Our recap includes a special video section with cast interviews, trailers and behind the scenes features.

Let's see what films you might have overlooked...

Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars, follows the story of Texans fighting a high-stakes battle for clean air. The film introduces the unlikely partners—mayors, ranchers, CEOs, community groups, legislators, lawyers, and citizens—that came together to oppose the construction of 19 conventional coal-fired power plants that were slated to be built in Eastern and Central Texas and that were being fast-tracked by the Governor.

Narrated by Robert Redford, the film documents how pressure from these various groups changed public opinion throughout the state of Texas and influenced a proposal made by private investors looking to purchase TXU—the company proposing 11 of the 19 conventional coal-fired power plants slated for construction in Texas—and convinced the buyers to reduce the amount of new plants they would build from 11 to 3.

The change in approach and significant reduction of potential pollutants is clearly a victory for the people of Texas, and a national example for others to follow since as of Feburary 2008 114 conventional coal-fired power plants are currently being proposed across the U.S., and close to 1,000 are in development worldwide. In addition to this being an important local story, it’s a powerful national and global story with the potential to educate and inspire audiences worldwide.

This unusual documentary is a tribute to three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad. In a remarkable career spanning half a century,  Conrad satirized eleven Presidents, beginning with Harry S. Truman and concluding with George W. Bush.

While his work has always been controversial it also epitomizes the power of editorial cartoons to force viewers to think. Over the years, Conrad challenged the public to consider political, social and economic issues and what it means to be a citizen.

The film features nearly 200 Conrad cartoons, ranging from the hilarious to heart-breaking presented in context with interviews of Conrad, his family members, as well as esteemed journalists, cartoonists, historians, and academics.

Let's Play Telephone with Tudor History

Do you remember that "telephone" game? The child at the beginning of the circle whispers a word to the kid next to them and it passes down the line becoming more distorted as it goes along. By the time it makes it back to the beginning it usually has no resemblance to what it was supposed to be.

This is a pretty good metaphor for "The Other Boleyn Girl." The dramatic license in Phillipa Gregory's book caused controversy but ultimately resulted in an entertaining story.

In contrast, the film plays somewhat like a game of telephone that started with a Cliff Notes version of Gregory's novel. As the film progress, the storyline spirals farther and farther outside the realm of credibility.

This hilarious 2007 film documents a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt! This shock-umentary may be just the divine intervention we've all been searching for.

From producer Morgan Spurlock (SUPER SIZE ME) and director Rob VanAlkemade comes a serious docu-comedy about the commercialization of Christmas.  Bill Talen (aka Reverend Billy) was a lost idealist who hitchhiked to New York City only to find that Times Square was becoming a mall.

Spurred on by the loss of his neighborhood and inspired by the sidewalk preachers around him, Bill bought a collar to match his white caterer's jacket, bleached his hair and became the Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping.

Since 1999, Reverend Billy has gone from being a lone preacher with a portable pulpit preaching on subways, to the leader of a congregation and a movement whose numbers are well into the thousands.