Black Market: Dispatches

In this global series presented by Michael K. Williams, VICE correspondents investigate what drives people into underground economies, and explore how they work.

2016 HD TV-MA United States English

Michael Kenneth Williams

Documentary

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S1E1 - The Tunnels of Gaza 2016-08-16

Suffering under economic blockade, Gazans use an illegal network of tunnels to smuggle in goods to survive. But the tunnels are under attack from Israel and Egypt.

S1E2 - Kamikaze Gas Smugglers 2016-08-23

Taking advantage of Venezuelas subsidized gas, Colombian smugglers known as kamikazes eek out a precarious living by smuggling this highly explosive commodity.

S1E3 - Dark Web 2016-08-30

A secret part of the Internet is revolutionizing drug dealing.

S1E4 - Syrian Refugee Girls 2016-09-06

Desperate young women fleeing the Syrian war are being trafficked into the sex trade under the guise of religion.

S1E5 - Poaching Pangolin 2016-09-13

The worlds most trafficked mammal may go extinct before most people know what it is.

S1E6 - Sugar Babies 2016-09-20

A new kind of dating blurs the line between prostitution and romance.

S1E7 - Cheap Whites 2016-09-27

With their economy in shambles and a simmering war with Russia, Ukraines citizens depend on smuggling contaminated, illegal cigarettes into the EU for survival.