Season 5

episodes

1. 1. Assad's Syria & Cost of Climate Change 2017-02-24 30 min 10.0 “Assad's Syria” - Isobel Yeung travels through regime-controlled Syria to see how Assad prevailed and to find out what might happen next in his crippled country. “Cost of Climate Change” - In the fa...
2. 2. Trans Youth 2017-03-03 30 min 10.0 Families and doctors are rewriting the rules as they decide when and how to start medical intervention before transgender youth hit puberty. Gianna Toboni explores this emotionally charged and rapidly...
3. 3. When the Earth Melts & The Displaced 2017-03-10 30 min 10.0 “When the Earth Melts” - VICE Correspondent Ben Anderson travels across the Arctic to examine the devastating impact of thawing permafrost--and the astonishing solution that might keep it frozen. “D...
4. 4. Kings of Cannabis & Into the Darkness 2017-03-17 30 min 6.0 "Kings of Cannabis" - VICE correspondent Hamilton Morris joins two hunters on an epic journey through the Democratic Republic of Congo in search of one of the rarest species of Cannabis, whose unique...
5. 5. Black and Blue & Our Bionic Future 2017-03-24 30 min 10.0 "Black and Blue" - VICE correspondent Cord Jefferson reports from St. Louis, one of America's most dangerous cities, to hear from activists and police officers alike about race and policing. "Our Bi...
6. 6. End of Amateurism 2017-03-31 30 min 10.0 Toboni travels the college sports landscape, meeting with athletic directors, coaches, sports marketing minds and the players themselves to see the role money plays in amateur athletics today.
7. 7. Life Under Sharia & Plastic Oceans 2017-04-07 30 min "Life Under Sharia" - VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi travels to Aceh and across Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, to experience Sharia up close and investigate its relationship to ter...
8. 8. Fast Food of Arabia & Nollywood 2017-04-21 30 min 10.0 “Fast Food of Arabia” - Gianna Toboni travels to Kuwait, now one of the most obese countries on the planet, to witness the health effects on a country deep in the throes of an unlikely obsession with...
9. 9. Medical Détente & Bananas 2017-04-28 30 min 10.0 “Medical Détente” - VICE correspondent Gianna Toboni travels to Cuba to witness potential treatments and cures that flourished in the country's biotech industry despite the decades-long US embargo....
10. 10. Taliban Resurgence 2017-05-05 30 min 8.0 Ben Anderson returns to the conflict he's covered for 10 years, re-uniting with several Afghans--an Army Major, a Policeman who dismantles IEDs and a family who were forced to fight to defend their ho...
11. 11. Engineering Immortality & Robot Revolution 2017-05-12 30 min 7.0 “Engineering Immortality” - Isobel Yeung meets the scientists and doctors leading the charge in genomics, pharmaceuticals, and stem cell research, which promises to revolutionize how our bodies age in...
12. 12. Women Behind Bars & The Business of Making Art 2017-05-19 30 min “Women Behind Bars” - VICE correspondent Isobel Yeung spends time in prisons and jails across the country, discovering what it means to be an American woman behind bars. “The Business of Making Art”...
13. 13. Taking Back Iraq & Lost Generation 2017-06-02 30 min 9.0 “Taking Back Iraq” - Aris Roussinos embedded with Iraqi forces on the road to Mosul as they began their assault on Islamic State's last stronghold in Iraq. "Lost Generation" - Isobel Yeung travels t...
14. 14. The Politics of Terror & End of the EU? 2017-06-09 30 min 10.0 “The Politics of Terror” - VICE examines the rise of Europe’s far right, and the hyper-charged climate fueling nationalist ideologies across the continent. “End of the EU?” - Shane Smith travels to...
15. 15. Future of Firearms & Russia “Wins” Climate Change 2017-06-16 30 min 10.0 “Future of Firearms” - With the political landscape fundamentally changed, the firearms industry, and gun rights advocates, are looking for new ways to expand upon their 2nd amendment rights and the b...
16. 16. Cyber Supremacy & Japan Rising 2017-06-23 30 min 10.0 “Cyber Supremacy” - Ben Ferguson travels to Tel Aviv to find out how Israel is on its way to becoming the world's top cyber superpower. “Japan Rising” - VICE sends Gianna Toboni to Tokyo to see the...
17. 17. Last Line of Defense & El Rostro 2017-06-30 30 min “Last Line of Defense” - With the Constitutional right to fair representation in a court of law in jeopardy, Cord Jefferson heads to one of the worst hit states to see how overworked and underpaid pub...
18. 18. Power to the President 2017-07-14 30 min 10.0 Isobel Yeung travels to Turkey as the country heads to the polls in a nationwide referendum that grants Erdogan unprecedented power.
19. 19. Crude Reality & Between Oil and Water 2017-07-28 30 min “Crude Reality” - VICE's Isobel Yeung explores how corruption at the top in South Sudan is threatening to tear the world's newest country apart. “Between Oil and Water” - VICE travelled to the Sacre...
20. 20. Autism Under the Lens 2017-08-04 30 min VICE’s Gianna Toboni explores the transformative work being done at the forefront of autism research, meets families trying out some of the newest treatments, and discovers a growing self-advocacy mov...
21. 21. Show of Force & Return to Somalia 2017-08-11 30 min 10.0 “Show of Force” - VICE travels to North Korea during the annual Day of the Sun celebrations as global tensions reached a fever pitch. As North Koreans celebrated the 105th birthday of their country's...
22. 22. Controlling the Narrative & Power to Congo 2017-08-18 30 min 10.0 Filipino journalists risk their lives while reporting on the president's brutal war on drugs; journalist Carl Bernstein discusses press freedom; in spite of the deadly war, rangers fight to protect Co...
23. 23. Dawn of a Dictator 2017-08-25 30 min Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro makes moves toward turning the country from a democracy into a dictatorship, creating a growing opposition to his rule.
24. 24. Dirty Oil & Rebuilding Our Reefs 2017-09-08 30 min Nigerian locals fight to get their government to allow them to profit from oil jobs and urban development; after losing 50 per cent of the world's coral reefs over the last 30 years, scientists work t...
25. 25. Dark Web & Future of Appalachia 2017-09-15 30 min 6.0 A group of law enforcement agencies fights back against those using the Internet for child sex abuse and child pornography; the future of the economy in Appalachia, which revolves heavily around the c...
26. 26. Divide and Conquer & Crackdown in Honduras 2017-09-22 30 min Gianna Toboni reports from North Carolina to witness the effects of gerrymandered congressional districts and examine the future of America's representative democracy. Also: a look at violent crime in...
27. 27. Russian Hacking & Contagion 2017-09-29 30 min The hacker ecosystem in Russia continues to grow; examining how vulnerable humans are to a new pandemic and looking at options for staving it off.
28. 28. 'Post-Truth' News & Microbiome 2017-10-06 30 min Isobel Yeung examines what's driving the media's battle over facts and the polarization of the U.S. public during the Trump era; Thomas Morton reports from the Central African Republic on the emerging...
29. 29. After ISIS & Cubs of the Caliphate 2017-10-13 30 min Season 5 concludes with a report from Iraq on the aftermath of the ferocious and costly fight to retake Mosul from ISIS. Also: Isobel Yeung meets Iraqi youth who trained under ISIS, but now face an un...