Season 5 · Episode 19 — Crude Reality & Between Oil and Water
“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 Sacred Stone Camp in December and followed the story of efforts to block construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline over the subsequent months as the Trump Administration moved quickly to resume work on the pipeline, examining how resource extraction has affected Native American communities.
Season 5 episodes
E1“Assad's Syria” - Isobel Yeung travels through regime-controlled Syria to see how Assad prevailed and to find out what might happen next in…
E2Families and doctors are rewriting the rules as they decide when and how to start medical intervention before transgender youth hit puberty…
E3“When the Earth Melts” - VICE Correspondent Ben Anderson travels across the Arctic to examine the devastating impact of thawing permafrost-…
E4"Kings of Cannabis" - VICE correspondent Hamilton Morris joins two hunters on an epic journey through the Democratic Republic of Congo in s…
E5"Black and Blue" - VICE correspondent Cord Jefferson reports from St. Louis, one of America's most dangerous cities, to hear from activists…
E6Toboni travels the college sports landscape, meeting with athletic directors, coaches, sports marketing minds and the players themselves to…
E7"Life Under Sharia" - VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi travels to Aceh and across Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, to exper…
E8“Fast Food of Arabia” - Gianna Toboni travels to Kuwait, now one of the most obese countries on the planet, to witness the health effects o…
E9“Medical Détente” - VICE correspondent Gianna Toboni travels to Cuba to witness potential treatments and cures that flourished in the count…
E10Ben Anderson returns to the conflict he's covered for 10 years, re-uniting with several Afghans--an Army Major, a Policeman who dismantles…
E11“Engineering Immortality” - Isobel Yeung meets the scientists and doctors leading the charge in genomics, pharmaceuticals, and stem cell re…
E12“Women Behind Bars” - VICE correspondent Isobel Yeung spends time in prisons and jails across the country, discovering what it means to be…
E13“Taking Back Iraq” - Aris Roussinos embedded with Iraqi forces on the road to Mosul as they began their assault on Islamic State's last str…
E14“The Politics of Terror” - VICE examines the rise of Europe’s far right, and the hyper-charged climate fueling nationalist ideologies acros…
E15“Future of Firearms” - With the political landscape fundamentally changed, the firearms industry, and gun rights advocates, are looking for…
E16“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. “Ja…
E17“Last Line of Defense” - With the Constitutional right to fair representation in a court of law in jeopardy, Cord Jefferson heads to one of…
E18Isobel Yeung travels to Turkey as the country heads to the polls in a nationwide referendum that grants Erdogan unprecedented power.
E19“Crude Reality” - VICE's Isobel Yeung explores how corruption at the top in South Sudan is threatening to tear the world's newest country a…
E20VICE’s Gianna Toboni explores the transformative work being done at the forefront of autism research, meets families trying out some of the…
E21“Show of Force” - VICE travels to North Korea during the annual Day of the Sun celebrations as global tensions reached a fever pitch. As No…
E22Filipino journalists risk their lives while reporting on the president's brutal war on drugs; journalist Carl Bernstein discusses press fre…
E23Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro makes moves toward turning the country from a democracy into a dictatorship, creating a growing opposit…
E24Nigerian locals fight to get their government to allow them to profit from oil jobs and urban development; after losing 50 per cent of the…
E25A group of law enforcement agencies fights back against those using the Internet for child sex abuse and child pornography; the future of t…
E26Gianna Toboni reports from North Carolina to witness the effects of gerrymandered congressional districts and examine the future of America…
E27The hacker ecosystem in Russia continues to grow; examining how vulnerable humans are to a new pandemic and looking at options for staving…
E28Isobel Yeung examines what's driving the media's battle over facts and the polarization of the U.S. public during the Trump era; Thomas Mor…
E29Season 5 concludes with a report from Iraq on the aftermath of the ferocious and costly fight to retake Mosul from ISIS. Also: Isobel Yeung…