Episode
VICE: Crude Reality & Between Oil and Water
Overview
“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.
Details
- Series
- VICE
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 19
- Air date
- 2017-07-28
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Crude Reality & Between Oil and Water is Episode 19 in Season 5 of VICE. It aired on 2017-07-28. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 18: Power to the President
Isobel Yeung travels to Turkey as the country heads to the polls in a nationwide referendum that grants Erdogan unprecedented power.
Episode 20: Autism Under the Lens
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