As of July 2026, VICE Season 5 aired in 2017 with 29 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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VICE Season 5

2017 29 Episodes Documentary · News ⭐ 7/10

If you want a documentary that respects its subject, VICE Season 5 is available on streaming right now. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. 79 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Rigorous in a way documentary storytelling does not always commit to. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

VICE Season 5 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. VICE Season 5 resists the urge to oversimplify a subject that deserves better. Season 5 of VICE includes 29 episodes. It aired from February 2017 to October 2017. Episodes include "Assad's Syria & Cost of Climate Change", "Trans Youth", "When the Earth Melts & The Displaced". It was aired in 2017. Documentary work at this level requires access that is hard to get and storytelling that does justice to it — VICE Season 5 has both. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

VICE Season 5 is the kind of documentary you immediately want to recommend to someone else. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. The complete run is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. Rigorous in a way documentary work does not always commit to. Not background viewing — it rewards your full attention.

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🎬 VICE Season 5 — Episode Guide

E1
Assad's Syria & Cost of Climate Change
2017-02-24
“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 t...
E2
Trans Youth
2017-03-03
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.
E3
When the Earth Melts & The Displaced
2017-03-10
“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 M...
E4
Kings of Cannabis & Into the Darkness
2017-03-17
"Kings of Cannabis" - VICE correspondent Hamilton Morris joins two hunters on an epic journey through the Democratic Republic of Congo in search of one of the rarest species of Cannabis, whose unique genetics could ultimately earn them millions of dollars. "Into the Darkness" - From an abandoned ...
E5
Black and Blue & Our Bionic Future
2017-03-24
"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 ...
E6
End of Amateurism
2017-03-31
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.
E7
Life Under Sharia & Plastic Oceans
2017-04-07
"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 correspond...
E8
Fast Food of Arabia & Nollywood
2017-04-21
“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...
E9
Medical Détente & Bananas
2017-04-28
“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 t...
E10
Taliban Resurgence
2017-05-05
Ben Anderson returns to the conflict he's covered for 10 years, re-uniting with several Afghans--an Army Major, a Policeman who dismantles IEDs and a family who were forced to fight to defend their home--for a shocking report that questions what America's longest war has actually accomplished.
E11
Engineering Immortality & Robot Revolution
2017-05-12
“Engineering Immortality” - Isobel Yeung meets the scientists and doctors leading the charge in genomics, pharmaceuticals, and stem cell research, which promises to revolutionize how our bodies age in the years to come. “Robot Revolution” - VICE explores how robotics and the computers that power...
E12
Women Behind Bars & The Business of Making Art
2017-05-19
“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 Anderso...
E13
Taking Back Iraq & Lost Generation
2017-06-02
“Taking Back Iraq” - Aris Roussinos embedded with Iraqi forces on the road to Mosul as they began their assault on Islamic State's last stronghold in Iraq. "Lost Generation" - Isobel Yeung travels to Iraq to see what the future looks like through the eyes of the youth.
E14
The Politics of Terror & End of the EU?
2017-06-09
“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 reso...
E15
Future of Firearms & Russia “Wins” Climate Change
2017-06-16
“Future of Firearms” - With the political landscape fundamentally changed, the firearms industry, and gun rights advocates, are looking for new ways to expand upon their 2nd amendment rights and the bottom line -- with some surprising results. VICE takes a closer look at the future of firearms in Am...
E16
Cyber Supremacy & Japan Rising
2017-06-23
“Cyber Supremacy” - Ben Ferguson travels to Tel Aviv to find out how Israel is on its way to becoming the world's top cyber superpower. “Japan Rising” - VICE sends Gianna Toboni to Tokyo to see the consequences of Japan's rising nationalism.
E17
Last Line of Defense & El Rostro
2017-06-30
“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 Peru...
E18
Power to the President
2017-07-14
Isobel Yeung travels to Turkey as the country heads to the polls in a nationwide referendum that grants Erdogan unprecedented power.
E19
Crude Reality & Between Oil and Water
2017-07-28
“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 Acces...
E20
Autism Under the Lens
2017-08-04
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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