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Vanguard

Season 5 2011

  • 2011-06-21T01:00:00Z on Current TV
  • 30m
  • 10h 16m (14 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary, News
Vanguard is a television documentary series broadcast on the Current TV television network that reports on such issues as the environment, drugs and the effects of globalization and conflict. The focus of most Vanguard episodes is to explore and immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show’s correspondents conduct interviews with affected peoples and the regions involved usually being led by a guide and translator who facilitates access. Since Vanguard's subject matter often involves exposés about organized crime, drug trafficking and armed revolts, the correspondents can face significant danger because of their reporting due to unstable political or security situations. Vanguard is notable for its presentation of criminals as unscrupulous. Police activity is presented in a sympathetic manner.

14 episodes

Season Premiere

2011-06-21T01:00:00Z

5x01 Gateway to Heroin

Season Premiere

5x01 Gateway to Heroin

  • 2011-06-21T01:00:00Z44m

Correspondent Mariana van Zeller investigates how and why OxyContin has fueled a new heroin epidemic in and around Boston.

2011-06-29T01:00:00Z

5x02 Sex, Lies & Cigarettes

5x02 Sex, Lies & Cigarettes

  • 2011-06-29T01:00:00Z44m

Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel heads to Indonesia, where he exposes Big Tobacco's successful and deadly expansion into that country, and observes the stage being set for a David vs. Goliath battle, as a small, underfunded group of concerned advocates battle Big Tobacco and a government drunk on profits and denial.

2011-07-13T01:00:00Z

5x03 Sushi to the Slaughter

5x03 Sushi to the Slaughter

  • 2011-07-13T01:00:00Z44m

Adam Yamaguchi, a ravenous sushi consumer since childhood, examines the cost of the world's insatiable appetite for raw fish, namely the Bluefin tuna.

2011-07-21T01:00:00Z

5x04 City of God, Guns & Gangs

5x04 City of God, Guns & Gangs

  • 2011-07-21T01:00:00Z44m

Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller investigates Brazil's bold new initiative to transform Rio de Janeiro's dangerous slums (called favelas) before the country hosts the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.

2011-07-27T01:00:00Z

5x05 Tiger Farms

5x05 Tiger Farms

  • 2011-07-27T01:00:00Z44m

Vanguard correspondent Adam Yamaguchi goes undercover to investigate China's lucrative black market for tigers and tiger parts, including the business of Asian zoos and breeding centers.

5x06 This (Illegal) American Life

  • 2011-08-02T01:00:00Z44m

Mariana van Zeller explores the personal stories of just some of the more than 2 million college students who are also illegal immigrants and facing uncertain futures as they prepare to graduate.

2011-08-09T01:00:00Z

5x07 Recovery High

5x07 Recovery High

  • 2011-08-09T01:00:00Z44m

Students attend a public high school outside Boston dedicated to serving drug-addicted teenagers.

5x08 Arming the Mexican Cartels

  • 2011-11-01T01:00:00Z44m

Christof Putzel reports from Juarez, Mexico, where US guns are fueling deadly drug wars.

2011-11-08T02:00:00Z

5x09 Islamophobia

5x09 Islamophobia

  • 2011-11-08T02:00:00Z44m

Adam Yamaguchi examines the rise of Islamophobia across the US and UK, and a new, aggressive network of anti-Muslim alarmists.

2011-11-15T02:00:00Z

5x10 Under the Knife Abroad

5x10 Under the Knife Abroad

  • 2011-11-15T02:00:00Z44m

Americans increasingly seek medical care overseas, because they can’t afford it at home. Adam Yamaguchi investigates medical tourism.

2011-11-29T02:00:00Z

5x11 The War on Weed

5x11 The War on Weed

  • 2011-11-29T02:00:00Z44m

Christof compares how US cities deal with weed. It’s high times in LA, while NYC cracks down on low-level pot offenses.

2011-12-06T02:00:00Z

5x12 Two Americas

5x12 Two Americas

  • 2011-12-06T02:00:00Z44m

Vanguard's "Two Americas" takes a ground-level survey of the growing economic disparity in America, profiling a month in the lives of two families in very different income brackets.

2011-12-13T02:00:00Z

5x13 The 99 Percent

5x13 The 99 Percent

  • 2011-12-13T02:00:00Z44m

Christof Putzel moves into Zuccotti Park to explore the Occupy Wall Street movement from the inside. Produced by Brent and Craig Renaud.

Season Finale

2011-12-20T02:00:00Z

5x14 Cage Fighting in the USA

Season Finale

5x14 Cage Fighting in the USA

  • 2011-12-20T02:00:00Z44m

Mariana van Zeller explores the fastest growing sport in America - Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). MMA is now a billion-dollar industry, watched by millions on national TV. But increasingly, amateurs are stepping onto the mat and drawing blood. Mariana meets male and female cage fighters to understand why they love this violent sport. And she spends time in a church run by "The Fight Pastor," who ministers a flock of young men who fight for Jesus.

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