Season
VICE: Season 6
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Details
- Series
- VICE
- Season
- Season 6
- Air date
- 2018-04-06
- Episodes
- 30 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Raised in the System
Emmy-nominated actor Michael Kenneth Williams embarks on a personal journey to expose the root of the American mass incarceration crisis: the juvenile justice system.
Episode 2: Battle for Jerusalem/A Face In The Crowd
A look at the aftermath of President Trump's announcement to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and a report from China on advances in facial recognition technology.
Episode 3: A Revolution in Ruins/New Kids on the Blockchain
An inside look at how the Libyan revolution is failing and a front-row seat to the geopolitical tug of war over Internet 3.0.
Episode 4: The Parkland Effect
Gianna Toboni sees firsthand how some teachers are taking up arms to be the “good guy with a gun that stops a bad guy with a gun” and explores the deep divisions in America that make it seem nearly impossible to stop these mass shootings.
Episode 5: Massacre in Myanmar/The Blue Helmets
Gianna Toboni travels to the Myanmar-Bangladesh border to investigate what the future holds for the world's most persecuted minority; correspondent Aris Roussinos joins U.N. peacekeepers on a peacekeeping operation across the lawless Sahara desert.
Episode 6: Iran in Iraq/Dying on the Vine
Isobel Yeung travels to Iraq to see how Iran is exerting its growing influence over the war-torn country ahead of parliamentary elections. Gianna Toboni heads to the vineyards of Napa during historic wildfires and the wine laboratories of Bordeaux to explore the dangers facing viticulture, and what they mean for agriculture everywhere.
Episode 7: Russian Democracy/Global Gag Rule
Ben Ferguson speaks with Russian voters and politicians to understand how democracy works in their country. Gianna Tobini examines how President Trump's Global Gag Rule impacts women's health in Uganda.
Episode 8: Printing Tomorrow/Are We Alone?
Krishna Andavolu delves into the cutting-edge world of 3D-printing, meeting the scientists and entrepreneurs pushing the boundaries of manufacturing, material science, and even space exploration. Scientists are closer than ever to finding life beyond Earth so VICE sent Nuclear physicist Taylor Wilson to explore one of our civilization's most haunting questions: Are we alone?
Episode 9: No Choice But to Choose/Rebel Republic
Gianna Toboni goes to Michigan to see school choice in action and understand what the future of public education might look like. Ben Anderson reports on the crisis in the Central African Republic, where the government barely controls the capital city, and 75% of the country is in the hands of at least 14 armed groups.
Episode 10: The Cost of Living/Paradise Lost
Investigating if a more democratized medicinal future is possible in America; citizens of Puerto Rico struggle to rebuild in the wake of Hurricane Maria, one of the worst natural disasters in the territory's history.
Episode 11: Separated By Birth
Krishna Andavolu embeds with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to explore what it’s like to be an American kid growing up in the shadow of deportation.
Episode 12: The Big Fix/Silicon Valley of India
The state of America’s infrastructure; and India’s tech talents, who once emigrated to the U.S. for job opportunities but are now putting their entrepreneurial spirit and engineering skills to use at home.
Episode 13: A Kurdish State/Out of Space
In Iraqi Kurdistan, Vice's Ben Anderson met those involved in the fight from the frontline to the Kurd's former guerrilla president to ask why the group recently voted for independence and what hopes they have for achieving a state of their own. Nuclear physicist Taylor Wilson joined the Air Force Space Command to see how a growing military and commercial space presence threatens the ubiquitous satellites, which are essential to humanity's digital way of life.
Episode 14: Opioid Generation/Hindustan
Isobel Yeung examines a surge in West Virginia child welfare cases in light of the country's opioid epidemic. Krishna Andavolu travels across India to investigate the nation's increase in religious nationalism.
Episode 15: After the Fall
Isobel Yeung returns to Syria to tell the stories of those who were caught in the crossfire between the most feared terror group on Earth and the U.S.-backed coalition, whose collateral damage destroyed most of the city.
Episode 16: Waiting to Die/Women in War
Gianna Toboni reports on capital punishment in the U.S. and follows one death-row inmate on his path to the execution chamber; Isobel Yeung travels to Yemen to interview women who are finding surprising ways to rise above terrorism, civil war and famine, and transcend their traditional roles in the country's conservative society.
Episode 17: Trump's Trade War
Michael Moynihan examines President Trump's claim that trade wars are easy to win, and what effect his policies could have on the global economy and the number of U.S. jobs.
Episode 18: A New Leaf/Quantum Supremacy
Charlet Duboc visits remote towns in Colombia where coca farming is a way of life to examine the struggle to make the nation cocaine-free. Taylor Wilson talks to scientists about the race to build the first quantum computer.
Episode 19: Trans in Texas/Nicaragua Deja Vu
Gianna Toboni returns to Texas to see how the transgender community is fighting to win acceptance and protection. Vikram Gandhi travels to Nicaragua to meet the new revolutionaries seeking to oust President Daniel Ortega and find out what the future may hold.
Episode 20: American Piety/Terror in Congo
Gianna Toboni travels to America's Bible Belt to see how evangelicals are navigating today's volatile political environment. Ben Anderson reports on the Allied Democratic Forces and their actions inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Episode 21: Engineering Earth
As greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at unprecedented levels, scientists work to develop a backup plan to use technology to "geoengineer" the Earth's atmosphere and reduce the effects of climate change.
Episode 22: Brainhackers/Fall of Rio
Thomas Morton reports on advances in neurotechnology that could open up new avenues of human experience. Ben Anderson returns to Rio de Janeiro to check on social, economic and political conditions since Brazil hosted the 2016 Olympics and 2012 World Cup.
Episode 23: Consent
One year after the explosive allegations against Harvey Weinstein, the #MeToo movement has impacted everything from Supreme Court nominees and workplace culture to sex and dating. Isobel Yeung takes a searing, personal look at how we define consent, hold assailants accountable and start to move forward.
Episode 24: Voodoo Wrestling/Big Placebo
Dexter Thomas visits the Democratic Republic of the Congo to explore the sport of catch fétiche and the emergence of women as its new champions. Charlet Duboc reports on alternative medicine in the U.S. and the country's wellness obsession.
Episode 25: Death Inc./Bannon's World
Gianna Toboni travels to Mexico to investigate the roots of a spiraling murder rate and meets the people who refuse to be silenced. Michael Moynihan visits Sweden, Italy and Belgium to follow former Trump strategist Steve Bannon and witness the rise of Europe's right-wing populist movement.
Episode 26: The Road to Asylum/Lab Rat Nation
Krishna Andavolu reports from Central America and the southern U.S. border on the effects of Trump administration policies on thousands of asylum seekers. Vikram Gandhi interviews people who were paid by pharmaceutical companies to try drugs not yet approved by the FDA and report their side effects.
Episode 27: A Living Hell in Yemen/MDMA for PTSD
Ben Anderson returns to Yemen to witness the devastating effects of four years of war and indiscriminate bombing of civilians. Anderson investigates trials using MDMA-assisted therapy for veterans and first responders suffering from PTSD.
Episode 28: The War at Home/Putin's Crimea
Gianna Toboni reports on domestic violence in the U.S. and meets women working to fix the shortcomings of a legal system that often fails to protect them. Isobel Yeung investigates how Crimeans are faring under Russian control, and how Ukrainians are clinging to the hope of reunification.
Episode 29: Doom Boom/Unfair
Exploring the U.S.'s booming doomsday industry; the cultural bias towards lighter skin in India.
Episode 30: Back in the DPRK/California Burning
Revisiting the Korean peninsula in the wake of the new detente; the state of California's future in the wake of increasingly deadly fires.