VICE Season 4

VICE Season 4 is currently streaming on major platforms, and it treats its subject with more rigour than the format usually demands. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. 79 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Worth watching in order, from the beginning — the cumulative effect is the point. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, VICE Season 4 is worth clearing space for. VICE Season 4 resists the urge to oversimplify a subject that deserves better. Season 4 of VICE includes 18 episodes. It aired from February 2016 to July 2016. Episodes include "Boko Haram & Unnatural Selection", "Escape to Europe & Cycle of Terror", "Right to Die". It was aired in 2016. The restraint in VICE Season 4 is what makes it trustworthy — it does not need to editorialise to make its point. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

Anyone after documentary work that genuinely informs rather than confirms will value VICE Season 4. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. A contained run means every episode is doing real work. Getting this level of access rarely happens twice. The kind of documentary that makes you feel informed rather than manipulated.

🎬 VICE Season 4 — Episode Guide

Boko Haram & Unnatural Selection

2016-02-05

Former Navy SEAL and new VICE correspondent Kaj Larsen travels to Nigeria to see what the cat-and-mouse game between the terrorist group Boko Haram and the Nigerian government means for the people caught in the middle of the fight. Isobel Yeung reports from Brazil, Scotland, China, and the United St...

Escape to Europe & Cycle of Terror

2016-02-12

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...

Right to Die

2016-02-19

VICE explores the moral, political and personal questions raised by how and when we end our lives.

Beating Blindness & White Collar Weed

2016-02-26

Isobel Yeung reports on the doctors and researchers who are making incredible strides in the fight against blindness. Hamilton Morris travels to California's infamous Emerald Triangle to meet struggling mom-and-pop growers, and visits with the investors and entrepreneurs eager to cash in on the next...

Meathooked & End of Water

2016-03-04

Isobel Yeung travels to the feedlots, farms and slaughterhouses where our meat is made, to see the true costs of our burger habit. Vikram Gandhi reports from California's once-abundant farmland and the heart of Sao Paulo's reservoir system to assess the depths of the water shortage crisis, and what ...

Return to Yemen & Church and States

2016-03-11

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 legali...

Palestine Now & Viva Cuba Libre

2016-03-25

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 sp...

Afghan Women's Rights & Floating Armories

2016-04-08

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 t...

The Future of Energy

2016-04-15

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.

E10

Trump in Dubai & China in Africa

2016-04-22

VICE Correspondent Ben Anderson investigates the 5 million migrant workers in The United Arab Emirates, many of whom are employed on a project bearing the name of a man who might be our next president, Donald Trump. VICE Correspondent Isobel Yeung heads to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya...

E11

The Deal & City of Lost Children

2016-04-29

VICE founder Shane Smith travels to Tehran to gauge attitudes about America and see the reactor that started Iran's nuclear program, and meets with key dealmakers--and critics--in Washington, DC. VICE correspondent Thomas Morton reports from Kolkata, where entire tribes of homeless children run ramp...

E12

The End of Polio & Collateral Damage

2016-05-06

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 we...

E13

State of Surveillance

2016-05-27

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.

E14

Heroin Crisis & New Age of Nukes

2016-06-03

'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...

E15

Flint Water Crisis & Libya on the Brink

2016-06-10

'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 ...

E16

Die Trying

2016-06-17

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.

E17

Student Debt & Fecal Medicine

2016-06-24

'Student Debt' - Americans owe $1.3 trillion in student loans --second only to home mortgages. The rise in student loan borrowing is tied to skyrocketing tuition rates, which are up 226% since 1980. VICE reports from America's college campuses to explore how a spigot of easy money from the federal g...

E18

The New $pace Race & Closing Gitmo

2016-07-01

'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...

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