The Big Heist (2001)

Based on the 1986 book The Heist How a Gang Stole 8000000 at Kennedy Airport and Lived to Regret It by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings this TV movie tells the story about the 1978 Lufthansa Heist at JFK Airport in New York the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil The heist was also the subject of the much betterknown 1990 film Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorsese It was also the subject of another madefortelevision film The 10 Million Dollar Getaway from 1991