Black Market: Dispatches
TV-MA
7.9
2016
Crime
, Documentary
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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- Cast:
- Michael Kenneth Williams
Episode 10 : Underground Fighting
October. 18,2016
In Japan, young gangs look to break away from the older Yakuza through underground violence.
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Episode 9 : Vietnam's Transgender Underground
October. 11,2016
In Japan, young gangs look to break away from the older Yakuza through underground violence.
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Episode 8 : Crime Towers
October. 04,2016
Scammers setup shop for their criminal enterprises inside London's public housing.
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Episode 7 : Cheap Whites
September. 27,2016
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.
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Episode 6 : Sugar Babies
September. 20,2016
A new kind of dating blurs the line between prostitution and romance.
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Episode 5 : Poaching Pangolin
September. 13,2016
The world's most trafficked mammal may go extinct before most people know what it is.
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Episode 4 : Syrian Refugee Girls
September. 06,2016
Desperate young women fleeing the Syrian war are being trafficked into the sex trade under the guise of religion.
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Episode 3 : Dark Web
August. 30,2016
A secret part of the Internet is revolutionizing drug dealing.
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Episode 2 : Kamikaze Gas Smugglers
August. 23,2016
Taking 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 1 : The Tunnels of Gaza
August. 16,2016
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.
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