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Heavy Metal in Baghdad Feature
01:24:41
Lone Iraqi thrashers to preeminent metal ambassadors.
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Mecca Diaries Part 1
06:56
The 5 day Scavenger hunt begins.
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Acrassicauda: Our Long Story, Short
04:50
From Heavy Metal in Baghdad to their arrival in the ...
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Mecca Diaries Part 2
07:25
Hajj: the world's largest annual pilgrimage.
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TOXIC: Garbage Island 1 of 3
20:47
The Northern Gyre: Adrift in a sea of plastic.
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Swansea Love Story 1 of 6
06:50
Welcome to Swansea: The saddest corner of Wales
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TOXIC: Garbage Island 2 of 3
20:58
The Pacific Ocean: Now a pool of chemical soup.
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Swansea Love Story 2 of 6
12:05
The decline of industry, the drug agency, and a crac...
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TOXIC: Garbage Island 3 of 3
25:00
The voyage home from the gutter of the Pacific Ocean.
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Swansea Love Story 3 of 6
15:49
Lee Dennis and Old Famous Clinty struggle to get cle...
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Vice Guide to North Korea 1 of 14
05:37
Good God, we are going to North Korea.
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Swansea Love Story 4 of 6
10:08
The Welsh Defense League riots, as do Cornelius and ...
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Vice Guide to North Korea 2 of 14
03:41
Welcome to Shanyang, China, just a few greased palms...
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Swansea Love Story 5 of 6
06:41
Clinty explains the racket and our happy couple has ...
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Vice Guide to North Korea 3 of 14
03:43
North Korea rolls out its awkward red carpet.
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Swansea Love Story 6 of 6
11:05
Goodbye, Swansea.
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Vice Guide to North Korea 4 of 14
04:41
In which we're shadowed by an entire country.
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Illegal Border Crossing Park
29:03
Simulating the scariest run in North America.
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Vice Guide to North Korea 5 of 14
03:39
Inside North Korea's rec room.
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Illegal LA 1 of 2
17:15
So what's the deal with all this immigratin'?
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Vice Guide to North Korea 6 of 14
05:24
Holy shit, the North Korean side of the DMZ.
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Illegal LA 2 of 2
18:44
The ease and horror of crossing the border.
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Vice Guide to North Korea 7 of 14
04:53
Beer and karaoke in North Korea.
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The Bulletproof Tailor
09:23
Fashionable bulletproof clothing for the world's elite.
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Vice Guide to North Korea 8 of 14
04:28
The country's mega-secret international gift archive.
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Inside Afghanistan 1 of 2
19:11
Ben Anderson walks into a Helmand Province firefight.
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Vice Guide to North Korea 9 of 14
03:20
A ride on the subway, a tour of the station.
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Inside Afghanistan 2 of 2
15:45
Twenty-four hours too long inside Afghanistan.
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Vice Guide to North Korea 10 of 14
03:02
Off to the library to visit the Mariah Carey tapes.
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The Vice Guide to Liberia 1 of 8
04:57
A primer: civil war, cannibals, and egregious violence.
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Vice Guide to North Korea 11 of 14
03:30
North Korea is fed up with our crap.
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The Vice Guide to Liberia 2 of 8
07:52
Wherein we spring an General bin Laden from prison.
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Vice Guide to North Korea 12 of 14
04:26
An attentive audience for a comforting concert.
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The Vice Guide to Liberia 3 of 8
06:52
West Point: The drugged-up ex-combatants' playground.
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Vice Guide to North Korea 13 of 14
04:25
A performance spectacle unlike any other—anywhere, e...
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The Vice Guide to Liberia 4 of 8
05:13
General Rambo, cannibalism, and a sensitive ceasefire.
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Vice Guide to North Korea 14 of 14
04:55
We live the tell the strange and sketchy tale.
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The Vice Guide to Liberia 5 of 8
08:21
Welcome to the brothels of West Point.
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TOXIC: Alberta 1 of 3
18:05
What's left behind after a modern-day oil rush?
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The Vice Guide to Liberia 6 of 8
09:22
A murderous cannibal recounts his past and is reborn.
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TOXIC: Alberta 2 of 3
16:50
Not even Al Gore can help you now, Canada.
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The Vice Guide to Liberia 7 of 8
06:49
From an exhumed graveyard to the Pentacostal pews.
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TOXIC: Alberta 3 of 3
18:27
Everyone's a critic, everyone's an expert.
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The Vice Guide to Liberia 8 of 8
07:20
The final chapter: What will become of Liberia?
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TOXIC: Linfen, China
27:14
Trudging through the most polluted place on earth.
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Back in Beirut - Tour of Bint Jbeil
07:32
At a rocket-leveled boardertown with Hezzbollah.
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran
12:59
The author of _Imperial Life in the Emerald City_ on...
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Back in Beirut - Camping With Hezbollah
07:23
Coordinating post-war resistance in a city of tents.
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Bernie Kerik
14:00
Ex NYPD guy, Iraqi Minister of the Interior, Dog Lover.
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Back in Beirut - Bourj al-Barajneh
16:23
In a Hezbollah neighborhood dominated by PLO.
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Back in Beirut - Hezbollah's "Mayor" of Beirut
09:15
Giving us a taste of Lebanese family values.
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The Vice Guide to Liberia
Welcome to The Vice Guide to Liberia. VBS travels to West Africa to rummage through the messy remains of a country ravaged by 14 years of civil war. Despite the United Nation’s eventual intervention, most of Liberia’s young people continue to live in abject poverty, surrounded by filth, drug addiction, and teenage prostitution. The former child soldiers who were forced into war have been left to fend for themselves, the murderous warlords who once led them in cannibalistic rampages have taken up as so-called community leaders, and new militias are lying in wait for the opportunity to reclaim their country from a government they rightly mistrust. America’s one and only foray into African colonialism is keeping a very uneasy peace indeed. In Part 1, Vice’s own Shane Smith provides a brief history lesson and some essential context for understanding what caused Liberia’s civil war and how things got so bad. Liberia was originally planned and founded as a homeland for former slaves back in 1821. But fast forward a bunch of years and a military coup and you find the First Liberian Civil War in 1989: yet another third-world regime change in which the US-backed opposition, led by Charles Taylor, overthrows a government unfriendly to US interests. Once in power, Taylor’s corrupt, dysfunctional government quickly finds itself under attack by local warlords, leading to the Second Liberian Civil War ten years later. From there things go from bad to total shit.
