Black Market: Dispatches
2016 · 1 season · 10 episodes · Ended · Viceland
Documentary, Crime
In this global series presented by Michael K. Williams, we embed ourselves inside criminal enterprises to see how contraband moves across borders, and explore the politics behind a hidden economy nearly as big as the one you know.
Episodes
- S01E01The Tunnels of Gaza2016-08-1630m
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.
- S01E02Kamikaze Gas Smugglers2016-08-2330m
Taking advantage of Venezuela's subsidized gas, Colombian smugglers known as kamikazes eek out a precarious living by smuggling this highly explosive commodity.
- S01E03Dark Web2016-08-30
A secret part of the Internet is revolutionizing drug dealing.
- S01E04Syrian Refugee Girls2016-09-0630m
Desperate young women fleeing the Syrian war are being trafficked into the sex trade under the guise of religion.
- S01E05Poaching Pangolin2016-09-1330m
The world's most trafficked mammal may go extinct before most people know what it is.
- S01E06Sugar Babies2016-09-20
A new kind of dating blurs the line between prostitution and romance.
- S01E07Cheap Whites2016-09-27
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.
- S01E08Crime Towers2016-10-04
Scammers setup shop for their criminal enterprises inside London's public housing.
- S01E09Vietnam's Transgender Underground2016-10-11
In Japan, young gangs look to break away from the older Yakuza through underground violence.
- S01E10Underground Fighting2016-10-18
In Japan, young gangs look to break away from the older Yakuza through underground violence.
