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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    VICE Season 2 Episode 6 - Rocky Mountain High & North Korean Defectors
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Rocky Mountain High & North Korean Defectors

    S2:E6

    Rocky Mountain High: Impact of legalized marijuana in Colorado; North Korean Defectors: The struggles of North Korean defectors relocating to South Korea.

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  2. VICE Season 3 Episode 3 - We The People & Countdown to Extinction
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - We The People & Countdown to Extinction

    S3:E3

    “We the People” – A recent study funded by the Department of Homeland Security listed domestic right-wing groups as two of the top three greatest terrorist threats in America. Host Gianna Toboni investigates these so-called patriots, training and taking up arms along the border. “Countdown to Extinction” – Correspondent Isobel Yeung visits the Mozambique Channel and the Gulf of Mexico to get an idea of how much we've overfished our oceans, and what we can now do to reverse that trend.

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  3. VICE Season 3 Episode 9 - Savior Seeds & India's Water Crisis
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Savior Seeds & India's Water Crisis

    S3:E9

    The future of food and genetically modified organisms. India's shortage of clean water.

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  4. VICE Season 3 Episode 10 - A Prayer for Uganda & Kidneyville
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - A Prayer for Uganda & Kidneyville

    S3:E10

    Anti-gay leaders teach intolerance to Uganda's youth. The illegal market for kidneys in Bangladesh.

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  5. VICE Season 3 Episode 13 - Afghanistan After Us & La Haine
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Afghanistan After Us & La Haine

    S3:E13

    Ben Anderson returns to Helmand, the country'smost violent province, to investigate the security situation in Afghanistan as American involvement winds down. Vikram Gandhi goes to Paris to gauge the causes of the growing hate in the City of Lights.

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  6. VICE Season 3 Episode 14 - Cold War 2.0
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Cold War 2.0

    S3:E14

    The increasingly strained relationship between Russia and NATO is examined in the Season 3 finale, which includes remarks by U.S. president Barack Obama and vice president Joe Biden.

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  7. VICE Season 4 Episode 2 - Escape to Europe & Cycle of Terror
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    #7 - Escape to Europe & Cycle of Terror

    S4:E2

    New VICE correspondent Ahmed Shihab-Eldin follows the Syrian refugee trail from the Syrian border to Europe, meeting Syrians determined to find a better life. Gianna Toboni travels to France and around the U.S. to see how the global reaction to the bloody ISIS attacks in Paris is affecting the fight against terrorism.

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  8. VICE Season 4 Episode 6 - Return to Yemen & Church and States
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    #8 - Return to Yemen & Church and States

    S4:E6

    Ben Anderson returns to Yemen, where he reported 'The Enemy of My Enemy' for VICE S2, to witness one of the worlds most bloody and underreported conflicts - the Yemen's Houthi rebels insurrection in Saudi Arabia. Gianna Toboni meets some of the families who are navigating the new landscape of legalized same-sex marriage, and hears from supporters of religious freedom laws, as VICE explores where the battle for equal rights heads from here.

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  9. VICE Season 4 Episode 7 - Palestine Now & Viva Cuba Libre
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Palestine Now & Viva Cuba Libre

    S4:E7

    Ahmed Shihab-Eldin reports from Bethlehem, Hebron, Ramallah and East Jerusalem to explore what life is like for young Palestinians in 2016. Shane Smith visits the 2015 Summit of the Americas to see the political thawing of relationships between Cuba and the United States, and then Havana, Cuba to speak to Cubans about how music and culture are helping bridge the divide between two former enemies.

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  10. VICE Season 4 Episode 8 - Afghan Women's Rights & Floating Armories
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Afghan Women's Rights & Floating Armories

    S4:E8

    With the Taliban gaining ground again, Isobel Yeung reports from Kabul on the fight for dignity and rights of women in Afghanistan. VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi reports from a private military contractors' floating armories in the Gulf of Aden to take a closer look who's protecting global commerce today.

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  11. VICE Season 4 Episode 9 - The Future of Energy
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Future of Energy

    S4:E9

    VICE founder Shane Smith takes an in-depth look at the future of how we make and use energy, and how we can meet growing demand as we cut carbon emissions.

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  12. VICE Season 4 Episode 12 - The End of Polio & Collateral Damage
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The End of Polio & Collateral Damage

    S4:E12

    VICE's Ben Anderson travels to Karachi Pakistan to meet with the health workers putting their lives on the line to finally eradicate Polio. Kaj Larsen travels to Myanmar and Laos to see the devastating effects of unexploded ordnance and to meet the trained disposal teams working to clean up these weapons before they claim more lives.

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  13. VICE Season 4 Episode 13 - State of Surveillance
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - State of Surveillance

    S4:E13

    To find out the government's real capabilities regarding digital surveillance, and whether any of us can truly protect our sensitive information, VICE founder Shane Smith heads to Moscow to meet the man who started the conversation, Edward Snowden.

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  14. VICE Season 4 Episode 14 - Heroin Crisis & New Age of Nukes
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Heroin Crisis & New Age of Nukes

    S4:E14

    'Heroin Crisis' - America is facing the worst drug epidemic this country has ever seen: more people are dying from overdoses than from car accidents-and at the center of it is an explosion in the use of heroin. Thomas Morton traces the causes and impacts of the crisis, from the poppy farms of Mexico to the hills of West Virginia, and investigates how users, first responders, and government officials are responding to the new reality of American drug use. 'New Age of Nukes' - Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, America's vast nuclear arsenal is beginning to show its age, and the government has embarked on the largest nuclear modernization effort in our history, costing American taxpayers as much as $1 trillion. Kaj Larsen goes aboard a ballistic missile submarine and visits the facilities on the front line of our nuclear weapons program to see why the military wants to upgrade the nukes we have-and why that might be a dangerous idea.

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  15. VICE Season 4 Episode 15 - Flint Water Crisis & Libya on the Brink
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Flint Water Crisis & Libya on the Brink

    S4:E15

    'Flint Water Crisis' - The water crisis in Flint, Michigan horrified the nation: a once-thriving industrial city had fallen on such hard times that residents couldn't even trust the water from their own taps. More shocking still were revelations that city and state officials knew about the problems with the water, but failed to take action or warn the public. VICE reports from Flint on the realities of life in a city poisoned by its own government. 'Libya on the Brink' - When the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was killed during the revolution of 2011, it seemed like good news for democracy in the Muslim world. But in 2012, the American ambassador and three other Americans were killed in a bloody attack in Benghazi. Today, a split between government factions has ceded large portions of the country to ISIS fighters and other extremists. VICE reports from the front lines as rival militias fight to save Libya as we know it.

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  16. VICE Season 4 Episode 16 - Die Trying
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Die Trying

    S4:E16

    Battling ALS herself, VICE editor Angelina Fanous meets with patients and top researchers across the U.S. to find out what's being done to tackle this devastating disease and the regulatory hurdles faced by ALS patients and drugmakers alike.

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  17. VICE Season 4 Episode 18 - The New $pace Race & Closing Gitmo
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - The New $pace Race & Closing Gitmo

    S4:E18

    'The New $pace Race' - Decades after the Apollo missions, a new era of manned spaceflight is dawning -- and this time, the destination is Mars. NASA and a growing community of private companies have set their sights on the Red Planet, and they're developing the technologies that will actually get us there. VICE reports on the preparations for humanity's next great adventure. 'Closing Gitmo' - The American prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is one of the most controversial issues of the post-9/11 era. President Obama promised to close the facility, but months from the end of his presidency the facility remains open -- and the reality of life there remains a mystery. VICE meets with ex-detainees who survived Gitmo, and the general who built it in the first place, to find out what really happens behind the camp's walls.

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  18. VICE Season 5 Episode 1 - Assad's Syria & Cost of Climate Change
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    #18 - Assad's Syria & Cost of Climate Change

    S5:E1

    “Assad's Syria” - Isobel Yeung travels through regime-controlled Syria to see how Assad prevailed and to find out what might happen next in his crippled country. “Cost of Climate Change” - In the face of a scientific consensus, and with the Trump administration ushering some climate deniers into the highest levels of government, Shane Smith follows the money to see the true economic stakes of decades of denial.

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  19. VICE Season 5 Episode 2 - Trans Youth
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Trans Youth

    S5:E2

    Families and doctors are rewriting the rules as they decide when and how to start medical intervention before transgender youth hit puberty. Gianna Toboni explores this emotionally charged and rapidly evolving issue with trans youth and their parents in the midst of that intense process.

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  20. VICE Season 5 Episode 3 - When the Earth Melts & The Displaced
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    #20 - When the Earth Melts & The Displaced

    S5:E3

    “When the Earth Melts” - VICE Correspondent Ben Anderson travels across the Arctic to examine the devastating impact of thawing permafrost--and the astonishing solution that might keep it frozen. “Displaced” - VICE Correspondent Gianna Toboni follows the journey of refugees journeying across the Mediterranean Sea who have been left in limbo due to the tightening borders of an increasingly nationalist Europe.

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  21. VICE Season 5 Episode 5 - Black and Blue & Our Bionic Future
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    #21 - Black and Blue & Our Bionic Future

    S5:E5

    "Black and Blue" - VICE correspondent Cord Jefferson reports from St. Louis, one of America's most dangerous cities, to hear from activists and police officers alike about race and policing. "Our Bionic Future" - VICE's Wilbert L. Cooper travels to Zurich to see the first ever bionic Olympics and discovers a host of technologies that are expanding what it means to be human.

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  22. VICE Season 5 Episode 6 - End of Amateurism
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - End of Amateurism

    S5:E6

    Toboni travels the college sports landscape, meeting with athletic directors, coaches, sports marketing minds and the players themselves to see the role money plays in amateur athletics today.

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  23. VICE Season 5 Episode 8 - Fast Food of Arabia & Nollywood
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    #23 - Fast Food of Arabia & Nollywood

    S5:E8

    “Fast Food of Arabia” - Gianna Toboni travels to Kuwait, now one of the most obese countries on the planet, to witness the health effects on a country deep in the throes of an unlikely obsession with U.S. fast food. “Nollywood” - Thomas Morton explores the explosive productivity of Nigerian cinema, from DIY horror movies to big budget blockbusters, by becoming a Nollywood actor himself.

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  24. VICE Season 5 Episode 9 - Medical Détente & Bananas
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    #24 - Medical Détente & Bananas

    S5:E9

    “Medical Détente” - VICE correspondent Gianna Toboni travels to Cuba to witness potential treatments and cures that flourished in the country's biotech industry despite the decades-long US embargo. “Bananas” - VICE heads to the heart of banana country in Latin American and the Philippines to see the devastating effects of the disease and to investigate what the loss of the banana would really mean besides a less colorful lunchbox.

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  25. VICE Season 5 Episode 14 - The Politics of Terror & End of the EU?
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - The Politics of Terror & End of the EU?

    S5:E14

    “The Politics of Terror” - VICE examines the rise of Europe’s far right, and the hyper-charged climate fueling nationalist ideologies across the continent. “End of the EU?” - Shane Smith travels to the home of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to discuss why the populist message resonates across the continent, how the left fails to grasp populist anger, and the need for a unified response to rebuild Syria.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Rocky Mountain High & North Korean Defectors" is the best rated episode of "VICE". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/25/2014. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "We The People & Countdown to Extinction".