Black Market: Dispatches (2016)
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.
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Episode 1 - The Tunnels of Gaza
Release Date: 2016-08-16Suffering 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.
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Episode 2 - Kamikaze Gas Smugglers
Release Date: 2016-08-23Taking advantage of Venezuela's subsidized gas, Colombian smugglers known as kamikazes eek out a precarious living by smuggling this highly explosive commodity.
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Episode 3 - Dark Web
Release Date: 2016-08-30A secret part of the Internet is revolutionizing drug dealing.
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Episode 4 - Syrian Refugee Girls
Release Date: 2016-09-06Desperate young women fleeing the Syrian war are being trafficked into the sex trade under the guise of religion.
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Episode 5 - Poaching Pangolin
Release Date: 2016-09-13The world's most trafficked mammal may go extinct before most people know what it is.
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Episode 6 - Sugar Babies
Release Date: 2016-09-20A new kind of dating blurs the line between prostitution and romance.
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Episode 7 - Cheap Whites
Release Date: 2016-09-27With their economy in shambles and a simmering war with Russia, Ukraine's citizens depend on smuggling contaminated, illegal cigarettes into the EU for survival.
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Episode 8 - Crime Towers
Release Date: 2016-10-04Scammers setup shop for their criminal enterprises inside London's public housing.
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Episode 9 - Vietnam's Transgender Underground
Release Date: 2016-10-11In Japan, young gangs look to break away from the older Yakuza through underground violence.
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Episode 10 - Underground Fighting
Release Date: 2016-10-18In Japan, young gangs look to break away from the older Yakuza through underground violence.