Black Market: Dispatches
In this global series presented by Michael K. Williams, we embed ourselves inside criminal enterprises to see how contraband moves across borders, and explore the politics behind a hidden economy nearly as big as the one you know.
Episodes
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.
Taking advantage of Venezuela's subsidized gas, Colombian smugglers known as kamikazes eek out a precarious living by smuggling this highly explosive commodity.
A secret part of the Internet is revolutionizing drug dealing.
Desperate young women fleeing the Syrian war are being trafficked into the sex trade under the guise of religion.
The world's most trafficked mammal may go extinct before most people know what it is.
A new kind of dating blurs the line between prostitution and romance.
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.
Scammers setup shop for their criminal enterprises inside London's public housing.
In Japan, young gangs look to break away from the older Yakuza through underground violence.
In Japan, young gangs look to break away from the older Yakuza through underground violence.
