Black Market: Dispatches

2016 • VICELAND
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Season 1 episodes (10)

1 The Tunnels of Gaza
8/16/16
Suffering under economic blockade, Gazans use an illlegal network of tunnels to smuggle in goods to survive. But the tunnels are under attack from Israel and Egypt.
2 Kamikaze Gas Smugglers
8/23/16
Taking advantage of Venezuela's subsidized gas, Colombian smugglers known as kamikazes eek out a precarious living by smuggling this highly explosive commodity.
3 Dark Web
8/30/16
A secret part of the internet is revolutionizing drug dealing.
4 Syrian Refugee Girls
9/6/16
Desperate young women fleeing the Syrian war are being trafficked into the sex trade under the guise of religion.
5 Poaching Pangolin
9/13/16
The world's most trafficked mammal may go extinct before most people know what it is.
6 Sugar Babies
9/20/16
A new kind of dating is changing the rules of prostitution and romance.
7 Cheap Whites
9/27/16
With their economy in shambles and a simmering war with Russia, Ukraine's citizens depend on smuggling contaminated, illegal cigarettes into the EU for survival.
8 Crime Towers
10/4/16
Amid a housing crisis, scammers setup shop for their criminal enterprises inside London's public housing.
9 Vietnam's Transgender Underground
10/11/16
Discriminated against and shunned, Vietnam's trans community turns to illegal hormone and cosmetic treatments.
10 Underground Fighting
10/18/16
In Japan, young gangs are looking to break away from the older Yakuza through underground fighting.

About this show

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

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