30 minSeason 6 • Episode 30
LatestRevisiting the Korean peninsula in the wake of the new detente; the state of California's future in the wake of increasingly deadly fires.
A documentary news series with a taboo-breaking team who deliver incredible news stories from around the world.
Direction
Shane Smith's chaotic on-the-ground energy is oddly hypnotic.
Production
How they got cameras into these places defies logic.
Editing
Punk rock pacing that refuses to let you look away.
Creator
Shane Smith
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vice basically invented the 'dude with camera in war zone' aesthetic that every YouTube documentarian now copies badly. They got there first by being reckless and lucky.
HBO's investment let them go bigger, but some fans argue the early Vice.com gritty chaos was more authentic than the polished series. The ISIS episodes remain some of the most cited—and debated—war journalism of the 2010s.
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