Guy Ritchie's True-Crime Docuseries On Netflix

Over the past decade and a half, Netflix has breathed new life into the true-crime documentary as a form of entertainment. But the streaming has rarely produced anything quite as entertaining as Guy Ritchie’s three-part docuseries about the world’s most valuable heist attempt.

Released in 2025, The Diamond Heist bears all the hallmarks of a fictional gangster thriller directed by Ritchie. Only, it has the added bonus of being an entirely true story, told by those directly involved in it. While its premise sounds like something straight from a movie script, it was something Lee Wenham and his gang actually dared to try.

Wenham is the main protagonist of this extraordinary story, which blends dramatizations akin to Guy Ritchie’s best movie scenes with archival footage and a selection of talking heads from both sides of the thin blue line. Among the myriad documentaries of varying quality currently streaming on Netflix, this is one true-crime show everyone can watch.

The Diamond Heist Is One Of Netflix’s Best True-Crime Docs

Although it wouldn’t typically get a mention alongside the best documentaries on Netflix overall, The Diamond Heist certainly stands out from most of the streaming giant’s wide array of true-crime docuseries, thanks to its slick production, immersive approach to storytelling, and penchant for bawdy Eastend humor.

It recounts the tale of the infamous Millennium Dome raid, an attempt by a local gang in November 2000 to rob a diamond exhibition from the event hall now known as the O2, in East London. The exhibition held by the De Beers Group featured the Millennium Star, a 203-carat flawless pear-shaped diamond worth over $300 million at the time.

If successful, the gang’s theft of this and other diamonds from the Millennium Dome would have become the biggest robbery in recorded history, by the total value of the items stolen. However, as The Diamond Heist depicts, things weren’t as straightforward as they might have seemed to Lee Wenham and his gang of professional burglars.

Guy Ritchie Executive-Produced The Diamond Heist

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While The Diamond Heist was directed by Jesse Vile, the docuseries has Guy Ritchie’s fingerprints all over it. Ritchie is best-known for his heist movies, and this Netflix documentary self-consciously aims to imitate his filmmaking style.

As the director of iconic British gangster flicks like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, he was the ideal person to oversee the story of the biggest heist ever planned in Britain. It’s only fitting, then, that Ritchie was an executive producer behind the scenes on The Diamond Heist.

His extensive involvement in the project is underscored by the irony that he’s actually mentioned in the archival footage used for the documentary. Expressing their disbelief that such a heist was even attempted, an expert on television in the year 2000 is shown saying, “I thought it was a publicity stunt by some film company – maybe Guy Ritchie or somebody.”

25 years on, Ritchie has helped to bring the story to millions of Netflix viewers around the world. Appropriately enough, the director’s next movie In the Grey is a heist thriller, too.

The Diamond Heist Feels Like A Classic Guy Ritchie Heist Thriller

Dramatic reenactment of robber wearing balaclava in The Diamond Heist (2025)

Perhaps the best thing about The Diamond Heist is that it feels just like a piece of big-screen entertainment, despite using a documentary format to depict a true story. It takes us for a ride through the events of the Millennium Dome raid in real-time, without skimping on the facts, and showing us every side of the heist operation.

The three-part series rattles along at the breakneck speed of a fully-scripted Guy Ritchie gangster thriller, in part because it features dramatic reenactments shot in the style of Ritchie’s own films. To get audiences fully into the spirit of its story, the show also includes nods to classic American heist movies like Ocean’s Eleven.

Anyone looking for a TV show that combines true crime and action thrills will undoubtedly enjoy The Diamond Heist. It’s arguably the most Guy Ritchie thing Guy Ritchie has been involved in during the past five years.