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February 2017
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.
January 2017
Taking advantage of Venezuela's subsidised gas, Colombian smugglers known as kamikazes seek out a precarious living by smuggling this highly explosive commodity.
The world's most trafficked mammal may go extinct before most people know what it is.
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.
Discriminated against and shunned, Vietnam's trans community turns to illegal hormone and cosmetic treatments.
December 2016
Crime Towers - Amid a housing crisis, scammers set up shop for their criminal enterprises inside London's public housing. (S.1 Ep.5) (From the US) (Documentary Series) G
Desperate young women fleeing the Syrian war are being trafficked into the sex trade under the guise of religion.
In Japan, young gangs are looking to break away from the older Yakuza through underground fighting.
In this global series presented by Michael K. Williams, VICE correspondents investigate what drives people into underground economies, and explore how they work. In this first episode, a secret part of the internet is revolutionising drug dealing.
A new kind of dating is changing the rules of prostitution and romance.
Gunrunners move weapons from American states with loose laws to states with stricter ones, in a never-ending flow that law enforcement can't seem to stop.
In a vicious cycle of dependency and despair, drug addicts shoplift meat and other everyday items and sell them to cash-strapped Brits struggling to get by in today's UK.
November 2016
Illicit Abalone - The fishermen of Hout Bay, South Africa have been forced to turn to poaching to survive. (S.1 Ep.2) (From the US) (Documentary Series) M(L)
New Jersey Drive - Actor Michael K Williams (The Wire, The Night Of) meets society's outcasts in an unflinching look into the lives of the people who work in underworld economies. Drawing on his own past living on the fringes, Williams gains unprecedented access into these worlds, treading a dangerous line to bring us a gl...
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