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Feature-length documentary commissioned by the Olympic Channel for VICE+ Brand Studio. 2020 Webby Awards Nominee for Best Original Sports Series.
“Running in North Korea” captures the journey of Olympians Aimee Fuller and Mirjam Jaeger as they travel to Pyongyang to participate in the 2019 Mangyongdae Prize International Marathon and meet fellow Olympians from North Korea. An inside look at the isolated country and how the power of sports can go beyond politics.
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Feature-length documentary commissioned by the Olympic Channel for VICE+ Brand Studio.
Three-time Olympic gold medallist Niccolo Campriani leads three refugees on a brave journey to qualify for Tokyo 2020 in the air rifle event.
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Five-part documentary series commissioned by the Olympic Channel for VICE+ Brand Studio. 2021 Webby Awards Winner for Best Original Sports Series.
Olympians visit inspiring community sports organizations to witness the power of sport to transform lives.
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2018 GLAAD Award Winner for Outstanding Digital Journalism.
In 2018, Danica Roem made history, becoming the first openly transgender person to be elected and seated to a state legislature. This documentary features exclusive access to Roem in the final hours of her campaign.
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“Black Identity Extremists” is a controversial FBI assessment that has drawn public scrutiny for its apparent advocacy of racial profiling.
This documentary follows black activist Rakem Balogun, the first person to be targeted as a “Black Identity Extremist.”
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Slavery might have ended on paper after the Civil War, but many white landowners did everything they could to exploit newly freed slaves well into the 20th century. Thousands of black laborers across the South were forced to work against their will as late as the 1960s.
Akil Gibbons traveled to Louisiana to meet genealogist Antoinette Harrell, the “slavery detective of the South," who tracks down cases of modern-day slavery and abusive labor practices.
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Three-part documentary series on the families and communities affected by opioid epidemic.
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Five-part documentary series commissioned by the Olympic Channel for VICE+ Brand Studio.
Athletes embracing and celebrating their bodies regardless of size, age or perceived limitation.
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Three-part documentary series on trans teens in the United States whose lives have been dramatically disrupted by anti-trans "bathroom bills" and other political battles.
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It's no secret that Chicago has become the center of America’s gun violence epidemic. To make matters worse, Chicago’s South Side - where many of these shootings take place - doesn’t even have a trauma center with the ability to treat adult shooting victims.
To help combat these shortfalls, a grassroots community organization known as Ujimaa Medics trains local kids on how to treat gunshot wounds.
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Tiamat Medusa is a trans woman who is simultaneously modifying her body to become a dragon.
"It takes self-love - and a real kind of self-love, beyond the kind of love that anyone could understand. You do deserve better, and if better isn't around you, you find that better. But you have to find it in yourself first."
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Welcome to Vet TV: a comedy website started by an ex-Marine named Donny O’Malley who believes his brand of dark and twisted humor is the thing that some post-9/11 military veterans have been dying to see.
But, according to Donny, the content is specifically made for front line infantry men to help them laugh about hard times. Completely unapologetic and at times controversial, Vet TV doesn’t shy away from much of anything.
Erica Matson went to visit the set of Vet TV and talk to Donny about his latest show.
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Transgender soldiers in the U.S. military are facing an uncertain future under President Trump. Rachel Waverly is a former soldier who believes her discharge was based on issues surrounding her gender identity.
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Episodic series focusing on the science, innovation, and technology being used across the booming marijuana industry.
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For the Mescalero Apache Tribe, girls are not recognized as women until they have undergone the Sunrise Ceremony- an ancient, coming-of-age ceremony that lasts for four days.
We traveled to New Mexico for rare access to Julene Geronimo’s Sunrise Ceremony.
