BIG STORY: The New Silk Road pt.3 – Into Europe

BIG STORY – IRAQ: WAR CONTINUED

Iraq: War Continued tells the story of a country, a conflict, and the upending of global order, from the perspective of those who fought in the war, those who covered the war, and those who became its victims.

BIG STORY: Poor Europe?

Shot across the continent, Poor Europe investigates why poverty is still present in Europe, and searches for solutions to this pressing dilemma.

BIG STORY: Fortress Europe

A continent being pushed to the brink, as it struggles to balance its response to the worldwide refugee crisis that’s arrived on its shores.

BIG STORY: Ocean’s Cartels

It’s one of the biggest threats we’ve ever faced: trillions of pieces of plastic choking the very lifeblood of our earth, and every marine animal – from the smallest plankton to the largest mammals – being affected.

BIG STORY: Drowning in Plastic

BIG STORY: America’s Fourth Estate

From Executive Producer Oliver Stone, an exploration of the intersection between media, government and the truth.

BIG STORY: The Lost Children of Tunisia

The Lost Children of Tunisia is a harrowing portrait of the devastating effects terrorism has had on Tunisia. It introduces viewers to families whose lives have been forever-altered by sons who have – sometimes secretly – left to join ISIL.

BIG STORY: The Landing Strip

With eight percent of the drugs that come into the United States passing through its borders, the mark left on Honduras is dark, and plagued with destruction.

BIG STORY: Overdose

A public health emergency that claims over 130 lives every day in the U.S. With millions misusing prescription opioids, and hundreds of thousands turning to heroin, “Overdose” goes to the heart of a crisis that is grappling an entire nation.

journalist interviewing migrant on train

BIG STORY: Another News Story

Following the migrant crisis, Another News Story takes a poignant, up-close look at the challenges of balancing objectivity and humanity in a packed and fast-moving news cycle.

BIG STORY: Sand Wars

Sand is not an infinite resource, and the planet’s gigantic demand for it is threatening its very existence. “Sand Wars” investigates this modern day “gold rush,” one that poses a real danger to humans, and the environment, in every corner of the globe.

BIG STORY: Road to Riches

With a goal to fully eliminate poverty by 2020, China’s rural and underserved population is being given an unprecedented opportunity for upward social mobility. Yet the challenges are enormous, for the masses and individuals alike.

Coastline of Fukushima near nuclear plant.

BIG STORY: Return to Fukushima

The story of three families exploring the dangers -and desires – of finally going home. The difficult journey residents of Fukushima still have to take.

BIG STORY: A hard land for women

It’s of the world’s most dynamic countries, a vast subcontinent with a rich millennial history. This is the story of India, a land of vast contradictions, where women struggle to survive and thrive.

BIG STORY: Out of the Dark

On June 23, 2018, twelve young soccer players and their coach set off to explore a cave in northern Thailand, becoming trapped 4KM deep inside it. This is the story of how a massive effort became an even bigger miracle.

BIG STORY: Guardians of the Earth

In 2015, 20,000 negotiators, representing 195 nations, descended upon Paris for a tension-filled, high-stakes 11 days, in the name of reaching an accord. Guardians of the Earth tells the story of how it was done.

From Local to Global

Forty years ago, China opened its economy to the world, and also stepped out into it, creating extraordinary change both inside China, and beyond it.

Power Shifts

Peter Frankopan explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology. Mirroring behaviors seen across Asia for millennia, this shift gives way to a new paradigm of power.

Big Story: Dirty Business

This is an investigation into how old electronics, discarded in some of the world’s richest countries, end up unrecycled. It’s the story of the trail of pollution – and corruption – that is left when trash is illicit, and business is dirty.

Tell Spring not to come this year

Without a NATO soldier in sight and no narrative but their own, this is story of the war in Afghanistan, told through the eyes of the Afghans who live inside it.

Mr. Deng goes to Washington

On January 1, 1979, China and the United States re-established full diplomatic relations. A few weeks later, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping made an official visit to the United States, a trip that would go down in the history books.

Unsustainable

Gerry Hadden goes into the heart of South America to meet the people affected by a unique paradigm: fighting scarcity in lands of tremendous abundance.

The Battle for Mosul

Mosul is the second largest city in Iraq. In 2014, it was seized by Islamic State, becoming de-facto capital of the terror group. French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy embedded with troops from all sides to witness the last days of the battle to liberate this important city.

TERROR PART V: Islamic State

On Big Story, VICE founder Suroosh Alvi traces the Islamic State’s origins back to a U.S. prison camp, and shows how the group’s rise has left a trail of unparalleled brutality. He meets with U.S. government officials, Iraqi military, and victims who have narrowly escaped the group’s beheadings or mass executions.

TERROR PART IV: Boko Haram

On Big Story, VICE founder Suroosh Alvi travels to Pakistan – where he spent many summers growing up – to trace the roots of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. As Pakistan’s umbrella organization for the Taliban, the group has engaged in ruthless terror campaigns that have killed tens of thousands in Karachi and beyond.

TERROR PART III: Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan

TERROR PART II: al Shabaab

On Big Story, VICE founder Suroosh Alvi travels to eastern Africa, where he documents the spread of al Shabaab and its relentless reign of terror, made notorious by its large-scale attacks in Somalia, Kenya and beyond.

TERROR PART I: Al Qaeda

On Big Story, VICE founder Suroosh Alvi risks his life to meet with al Qaeda members, government officials, civilians and victims to investigate the organization’s origins, impact and plans for the future.

Welcome to Refugeestan

What happens when the temporary feels like a decades-long prison?

Middle Class Kingdom

A middle class larger than most countries, works with grit and growing pains for glory.

Forget Me Not

“De Verrekijker” looks like a normal Dutch primary school. However, the boys and girls are children of rejected asylum seekers.

Reinventing Cuba

CGTN’s Gerry Hadden, a long time Cuba watcher takes viewers on a personal journey. Hadden portrays vibrant, hopeful, and resourceful characters facing enormous challenges in today’s Cuba.

On Thin Ice

Reporter Sean Callebs and photographer Andrew Smith spent three months in the Arctic, documenting the changes in the region for the original documentary: “On Thin Ice: The People of the North”.

Please remember me

Among China’s increasingly ageing population, there are more than nine million Alzheimer’s patients; the largest number in any country.

Following the Afghan National Army fighting in Helmand Province

The documentary “Tell Spring Not to Come This Year” is a gripping, observational film following one unit of the Afghan National Army over the course of its first year of fighting in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.