The Trailer for Crime Drama 'The Gold' Recreates a Shocking Real Life Heist

These days, no matter what country you live in, it seems like we can't get enough stories of true crime. From grisly stories of murder to unhinged tales of scammers, we will absolutely watch them all, and all the better if they're based on real-life events that we aren't necessarily super familiar with. Most American audiences, for example, haven't heard about the gruesome crimes John Christie committed at Rillington Place and would be shocked to learn that John Stonehouse, a sitting member of Parliament, tried really hard to fake his own death in order to avoid jail back in the 1970s.

The BBC is leaning hard into this trend with its upcoming star-studded prestige crime drama The Gold, which ticks all the necessary boxes—an improbable true story, a cast of colorful real-life figures, an impressively bold crime that actually broke records at the time it was committed—and looks great to boot. (Plus, that cast!)

The Gold is based on the story of the infamous Brink's-Mat robbery in 1983 and the decades-long fallout that followed. Described as "the crime of the century," the event involved six robbers who broke into the Brink's-Mat security warehouse near London's Heathrow Airport with a plan to steal  £3.2 million in cash. What they found was actually a stash of gold bullion, diamonds, and cash worth around £26m. (This was, not surprisingly, the largest robbery in world history at the time.)