Black Market: Dispatches
Black Market: Dispatches: Season 1

Air Date

August 16, 2016

Episodes

10 episodes

Black Market: Dispatches

Season 1

Episodes

The Tunnels of Gaza

1. The Tunnels of Gaza

August 16, 2016
30 min

Suffering under economic blockade, Gazans use an illegal network of tunnels to smuggle in goods to survive. But the tunnels are under attack from Israel and Egypt.

Kamikaze Gas Smugglers

2. Kamikaze Gas Smugglers

August 23, 2016
30 min

Taking advantage of Venezuela's subsidized gas, Colombian smugglers known as kamikazes eek out a precarious living by smuggling this highly explosive commodity.

Dark Web

3. Dark Web

August 30, 2016

A secret part of the Internet is revolutionizing drug dealing.

Syrian Refugee Girls

4. Syrian Refugee Girls

September 6, 2016
30 min

Desperate young women fleeing the Syrian war are being trafficked into the sex trade under the guise of religion.

Poaching Pangolin

5. Poaching Pangolin

September 13, 2016
30 min

The world's most trafficked mammal may go extinct before most people know what it is.

Sugar Babies

6. Sugar Babies

September 20, 2016

A new kind of dating blurs the line between prostitution and romance.

Cheap Whites

7. Cheap Whites

September 27, 2016

With their economy in shambles and a simmering war with Russia, Ukraine's citizens depend on smuggling contaminated, illegal cigarettes into the EU for survival.

Crime Towers

8. Crime Towers

October 4, 2016

Scammers setup shop for their criminal enterprises inside London's public housing.

Vietnam's Transgender Underground

9. Vietnam's Transgender Underground

October 11, 2016

In Japan, young gangs look to break away from the older Yakuza through underground violence.

Underground Fighting

10. Underground Fighting

October 18, 2016

In Japan, young gangs look to break away from the older Yakuza through underground violence.