VICE (Seasons 1–6)

VICE (2013) is HBO's documentary news series that you can watch online on iFILM. Shane Smith and Suroosh Alvi built VICE out of a Montreal alt-magazine in the 1990s into a reporting operation with one simple premise: go to the place, find the person no one else can reach, and put a camera in front of them.

Ben Anderson interviews Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Isobel Yeung follows a refugee crisis from inside it. David Choe gets into North Korea as a painter. No anchor, no studio, no explainer graphics — just the reporter, the source and whatever happens between them. VICE launched on HBO in 2013 and has since covered dozens of countries, from Syria's civil war to nuclear sites in North Korea to climate collapse in the Pacific. For viewers who find network news too packaged and pundit-heavy, this series is the corrective. Stream all seasons of VICE online on iFILM.