Black Market: Dispatches (2016)

Season 1

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.

Released Aug. 16, 2016 Episode 30 min 17+

Genres: Crime, Documentary

Keywords: imdb.underground, tmdb.black-market, tmdb.smuggling-contraband

Watch Providers: The Roku Channel

Network: Viceland

Country: United States
Languages: English

IMDb

7.9

/69/

Trakt

/23/

TMDb

Michael Kenneth Williams
Himself - Host

S1E1 - The Tunnels of Gaza

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.

Aug. 16, 2016, midnight

S1E2 - Kamikaze Gas Smugglers

Taking advantage of Venezuela's subsidized gas, Colombian smugglers known as kamikazes eek out a precarious living by smuggling this highly explosive commodity.

Aug. 23, 2016, midnight

S1E3 - Dark Web

A secret part of the Internet is revolutionizing drug dealing.

Aug. 30, 2016, midnight

S1E4 - Syrian Refugee Girls

Desperate young women fleeing the Syrian war are being trafficked into the sex trade under the guise of religion.

Sept. 6, 2016, midnight

S1E5 - Poaching Pangolin

The world's most trafficked mammal may go extinct before most people know what it is.

Sept. 13, 2016, midnight

S1E6 - Sugar Babies

A new kind of dating blurs the line between prostitution and romance.

Sept. 20, 2016, midnight

S1E7 - Cheap Whites

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.

Sept. 27, 2016, midnight