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    VICE Season 1 Episode 5 - Mormon Lost Boys/The Fat Farms of Mauritania/Mumbai Slumscraper
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    #1 - Mormon Lost Boys/The Fat Farms of Mauritania/Mumbai Slumscraper

    S1:E5

    Mormon Lost Boys: Exiled sons of polygamists; The Fat Farms of Mauritania: fat farms for Mauritanian women; Mumbai Slumscraper: have and have-nots in Mumbai.

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  2. VICE Season 1 Episode 6 - Corruption
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    #2 - Corruption

    S1:E6

    China's Ghost Towns: How China’s appetite for housing created huge ghost cities; Egypt On The Brink: the violent aftermath of Arab Spring in Egypt.

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  3. VICE Season 1 Episode 8 - Fighting Chances
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    #3 - Fighting Chances

    S1:E8

    Senegalese Laamb Wrestling: Laamb wrestling in Senegal; The World is Sinking: the rising tide of climate change.

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  4. VICE Season 1 Episode 9 - Gangs & Oil
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    #4 - Gangs & Oil

    S1:E9

    Chiraq: Failed state on the south side of Chicago; Nigeria's Oil Pirates: oil drilling in the Niger River Delta.

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  5. VICE Season 2 Episode 2 - Greenland Is Melting & Bonded Labor
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    #5 - Greenland Is Melting & Bonded Labor

    S2:E2

    Greenland recorded its highest temperatures ever in 2013. Though some say that's not cause for concern, the equivalent of three Chesapeake Bays'-worth of water melts off the island every year, affecting sea levels around the world. Shane Smith embarks on an expedition to Greenland with climate scientist Jason Box to discover the reasons for the melting, and how the resulting sea level rise will mean devastation sooner than expected. Millions of men, women and children work as bonded laborers in Pakistan's brick kilns. This abusive practice is facilitated by the devastating disenfranchisement of workers and by the pervasive corruption of the brick kiln industry and Pakistani law enforcement. Fazeelat Aslam goes to the brick kilns to see the conditions and learn how certain organizations are fighting back by rescuing the workers from this modern-day slavery.

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  6. VICE Season 2 Episode 3 - American Scrap & Children of the Drones
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    #6 - American Scrap & Children of the Drones

    S2:E3

    David Choe examines the scrap metal trade in America and Suroosh Alvi explores the effects of drone strikes in Afghanistan.

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  7. VICE Season 2 Episode 4 - A Syria of Their Own & White Gold
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    #7 - A Syria of Their Own & White Gold

    S2:E4

    'A Syria of Their Own' - Thomas Morton goes to the frontline of the battle for a Kurdish state to follow the story of Syria's forgotten ethnic group, the Kurds. 'White Gold' - Rhino horn has been coveted in Eastern medicine for centuries. Vikram Gandhi traces the trade from Southern Africa to Vietnam to understand this illicit phenomenon which has been on the rise.

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  8. VICE Season 2 Episode 5 - Terrorist University & Armageddon Now
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    #8 - Terrorist University & Armageddon Now

    S2:E5

    'Terrorist University' - Dagestan is Russia's hotbed for Muslim extremism; Shane Smith heads there to follow in the footsteps of Boston Marathon Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev who spent six months there. 'Armageddon Now' - Thomas Morton looks at the Israel-Palestinian conflict and the surprising Evangelical support for the Jewish State.

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  9. VICE Season 2 Episode 9 - Crude Awakening & The Enemy of My Enemy
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    #9 - Crude Awakening & The Enemy of My Enemy

    S2:E9

    Shane Smith heads to Louisiana to report on the lasting effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Then, Ben Anderson goes deep into Houthi-controlled territory to learn about the group that’s fighting, and beating, Al Qaeda in the east, Saudi Arabia in the north, and Yemen’s central government in the south.

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  10. VICE Season 5 Episode 7 - Life Under Sharia & Plastic Oceans
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    #10 - Life Under Sharia & Plastic Oceans

    S5:E7

    "Life Under Sharia" - VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi travels to Aceh and across Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, to experience Sharia up close and investigate its relationship to terrorism, as well as meet those who are fighting back against it. "Plastic Oceans" - VICE correspondent Isobel Yeung travels to the remote shores of Hawaii and the coast of the North Sea to see the extent of our plastic addiction and the surprisingly simple ways we can solve it.

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  11. VICE Season 5 Episode 12 - Women Behind Bars & The Business of Making Art
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    #11 - Women Behind Bars & The Business of Making Art

    S5:E12

    “Women Behind Bars” - VICE correspondent Isobel Yeung spends time in prisons and jails across the country, discovering what it means to be an American woman behind bars. “The Business of Making Art” - With Warhol's art now fetching tremendous sums in the booming modern art marketplace, Ben Anderson embarks on a journey through the art world with some of Warhol's master printers to explore not just the question "What is art?" but "What is a Warhol?"

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  12. VICE Season 5 Episode 17 - Last Line of Defense & El Rostro
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    #12 - Last Line of Defense & El Rostro

    S5:E17

    “Last Line of Defense” - With the Constitutional right to fair representation in a court of law in jeopardy, Cord Jefferson heads to one of the worst hit states to see how overworked and underpaid public defenders are coping with the broken legal system. “El Rostro” - VICE travels deep in the Peruvian Amazon to where multinational companies have been extracting lucrative natural resources to see how these activities are decimating the land. With the native Harakmbut people as his guide, Ben Anderson goes into the forest to explore sacred landmarks they hope will prevent companies from destroying the land for a profit.

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  13. VICE Season 5 Episode 19 - Crude Reality & Between Oil and Water
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    #13 - Crude Reality & Between Oil and Water

    S5:E19

    “Crude Reality” - VICE's Isobel Yeung explores how corruption at the top in South Sudan is threatening to tear the world's newest country apart. “Between Oil and Water” - VICE travelled to the Sacred Stone Camp in December and followed the story of efforts to block construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline over the subsequent months as the Trump Administration moved quickly to resume work on the pipeline, examining how resource extraction has affected Native American communities.

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  14. VICE Season 5 Episode 20 - Autism Under the Lens
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    #14 - Autism Under the Lens

    S5:E20

    VICE’s Gianna Toboni explores the transformative work being done at the forefront of autism research, meets families trying out some of the newest treatments, and discovers a growing self-advocacy movement out of the autistic community that wants to refocus the science.

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  15. VICE Season 5 Episode 23 - Dawn of a Dictator
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    #15 - Dawn of a Dictator

    S5:E23

    Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro makes moves toward turning the country from a democracy into a dictatorship, creating a growing opposition to his rule.

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  16. VICE Season 5 Episode 24 - Dirty Oil & Rebuilding Our Reefs
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    #16 - Dirty Oil & Rebuilding Our Reefs

    S5:E24

    Nigerian locals fight to get their government to allow them to profit from oil jobs and urban development; after losing 50 per cent of the world's coral reefs over the last 30 years, scientists work to keep the remaining reefs alive.

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  17. VICE Season 5 Episode 26 - Divide and Conquer & Crackdown in Honduras
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    #17 - Divide and Conquer & Crackdown in Honduras

    S5:E26

    Gianna Toboni reports from North Carolina to witness the effects of gerrymandered congressional districts and examine the future of America's representative democracy. Also: a look at violent crime in Honduras and how the government has approached gang activity.

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  18. VICE Season 5 Episode 27 - Russian Hacking & Contagion
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    #18 - Russian Hacking & Contagion

    S5:E27

    The hacker ecosystem in Russia continues to grow; examining how vulnerable humans are to a new pandemic and looking at options for staving it off.

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  19. VICE Season 5 Episode 28 - 'Post-Truth' News & Microbiome
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    #19 - 'Post-Truth' News & Microbiome

    S5:E28

    Isobel Yeung examines what's driving the media's battle over facts and the polarization of the U.S. public during the Trump era; Thomas Morton reports from the Central African Republic on the emerging field of microbiome science.

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  20. VICE Season 5 Episode 29 - After ISIS & Cubs of the Caliphate
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    #20 - After ISIS & Cubs of the Caliphate

    S5:E29

    Season 5 concludes with a report from Iraq on the aftermath of the ferocious and costly fight to retake Mosul from ISIS. Also: Isobel Yeung meets Iraqi youth who trained under ISIS, but now face an uncertain future as they try to rebuild their lives.

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  21. VICE Season 6 Episode 2 - Battle for Jerusalem/A Face In The Crowd
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    #21 - Battle for Jerusalem/A Face In The Crowd

    S6:E2

    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.

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  22. VICE Season 6 Episode 5 - Massacre in Myanmar/The Blue Helmets
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    #22 - Massacre in Myanmar/The Blue Helmets

    S6:E5

    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.

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  23. VICE Season 6 Episode 6 - Iran in Iraq/Dying on the Vine
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    #23 - Iran in Iraq/Dying on the Vine

    S6:E6

    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.

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  24. VICE Season 6 Episode 8 - Printing Tomorrow/Are We Alone?
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    #24 - Printing Tomorrow/Are We Alone?

    S6:E8

    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?

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  25. VICE Season 6 Episode 9 - No Choice But to Choose/Rebel Republic
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    #25 - No Choice But to Choose/Rebel Republic

    S6:E9

    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.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Mormon Lost Boys/The Fat Farms of Mauritania/Mumbai Slumscraper" is the worst rated episode of "VICE". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/3/2013. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Corruption".