Netflix fans can’t stop watching ‘legendary’ Guy Ritchie crime series topping chart
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Netflix’s mind-boggling true crime documentary about ‘the most audacious heist of all time’ is currently number one on the streamer.
The three-part docuseries, The Diamond Heist, is executive produced by Emmy nominee Guy Ritchie and explores the astonishing story of how a group of criminals attempted to rob the Millennium Star Diamond, worth £350millon.
The official synopsis reads: ‘It’s summer 2000. A group of south-east London criminals are orchestrating what just might be the most audacious heist of all time.
‘Their plan: use a bulldozer to ram-raid the brand new Millennium Dome in broad daylight, steal the world’s second biggest flawless diamond in a haul worth £350 million, and escape by speedboat down the Thames.
‘There’s just one tiny problem: the Flying Squad are watching.’
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The show has an acclaimed crew behind it including director Jesse Vile and executive producers Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn, Suzanne Lavery and Ivan Atkinson.
Fans have been raving about the ‘fantastic’ show, dubbing it ‘a must watch’.
‘Guy Ritchie Diamond Heist is best doc on the raid I’ve seen as actually managed to get blokes who done it to talk .!,’ Jon Saunders wrote on X.
Adrian Stevens added: ‘If you have Netflix “The Diamond Heist” was very good!’
User Kev Is Me wrote: ‘Just watched #Diamondheist on #Netflix. Fantastic. Remember it so clearly. The last sentence of the 3 episodes is so funny. Defo a must watch documentary.’
The foiled diamond raid took place at Millennium Dome’s diamond exhibition in Greenwich in November 2000 but the Metropolitan Police branch known as the Flying Squad swooped in just in the nick of time.
The notorious attempted robbery has been portrayed in popular media before including a book written by Detective Superintendent Jon Shatford and William Doyle about the raid titled Dome Raiders: How Scotland Yard Foiled the Greatest Robbery of All Time.
On screen, the heist has been portrayed in an episode of Britain’s Biggest Heists and The Millennium Dome Heist with Ross Kemp, which aired on ITV in 2020.
Ironically, the legendary filmmaker himself was the target of a heist in November while filming his new big-budget Paramount+ series The Associates.
During the incident, two men reportedly rocked up in a Toyota Prius and distracted people while a third person stole some camera equipment from the side of the road.
An insider told The Sun: ‘[The thief] jumped back in the car and they sped off. The security guards started going bananas because they’d basically been robbed in broad daylight.
‘It was pretty embarrassing and a costly mistake,’ the source added. ‘The kit on those films isn’t cheap.’
And of course his 2000 movie Snatch, which is available to watch on Prime, portrays the criminal goings-on in London’s underworld – including the hunt for a missing diamond.
Guy is no stranger to portraying the world of crime. His best-known projects include the 1998 crime comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and the 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie.
Most recently, he shot to the top of the Netflix charts with The Gentleman, which follows the criminal misadventures of Eddie Horniman (Theo James) and Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario).
It amassed a whopping 70 million views before being renewed for a second season.
The Diamond Heist will arrive on Netflix on April 16.
A version of this article was published on March 21, 2025.
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