LA County's housing crisis has gotten so severe that hundreds of people have felt they have no choice but to make camp in unincorporated areas of the Mojave Desert, where they will not be subject to police encounters.
Arkansas has one of the lowest COVID vaccination rates in the country, and the Delta variant caused a surge of new cases in the state. We embedded at a hospital in Little Rock, where doctors say the threat of death isn’t enough to convince people to get vaccinated.
Across the US, corporate buyers are purchasing mobile home parks and driving up rents for those on the brink of being homeless. VICE News went to Fresno, California, where one such company is attempting to buy a park called Trails End, and residents fear the worst.
Just off the shore of one of the nation’s most expensive zip codes, a community of free-spirited boat dwellers have found a way to live rent-free next to millionaires. Known locally as “anchor-outs,” their aging vessels float illegally on the waters off Sausalito, an exclusive enclave in the San Francisco Bay Area. But now, as enforcement ramps up, their floating utopia is under threat.
California’s 2023 floods led to more deaths than the previous two wildfire seasons combined, and they’re only a preview of the state’s extreme weather future.
An activist drag queen, Marti Cummings (they/them), tries to make history by running for New York City Council. But it’s one of the most hotly contested Council races in years, and Marti is up against 11 opponents with deep ties to their Upper Manhattan council district.
Throughout this comedic vérité documentary, Marti’s passion and positivity inspire queer activists and allies to change the political system. Their campaign becomes a community of its own, especially for Marti’s non-binary peers who have never before seen themselves represented.
And as they campaign by day and perform by night, Marti redefines their identity and learns that being a successful leader means more than winning one election.
The film features narration by superstar Billy Porter and appearances by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Broad City's Ilana Glazer, and nearly 20 NYC-based drag artists. Werk!
World Premiere at NewFest 2023 (New York Centerpiece Film)
Staff at Queens Hospital called 68-year-old COVID patient Rudy Corletto the “miracle man.” The grandfather spent 29 days on a ventilator during New York’s brutal first wave of the pandemic, when most ICU patients didn’t make it. We were there when he was finally discharged.
Filmed at the height of the 2020 COVID outbreak in NYC, and nominated for “Outstanding Short Feature Story in a Newscast” at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards.
In 2021, Sgt. Jessica Haut came out as trans in the military. One year later, VICE News checks back in to see how she’s navigating her transition while serving in the U.S. Army.
Nominated for “Outstanding TV Journalism Segment” at the 34th GLAAD Media Awards.
The discovery of more than 200 unmarked graves of Indigenous children at a former residential school in Canada exposed the horrific scale of abuses that took place inside the country’s residential school system. Now, the country is experiencing a reckoning.
For millions of wheelchair users, flying on an airplane means undergoing a series of indignities, and sometimes even dealing with a broken chair upon arrival. VICE News rides along with one traveler to see the nightmare firsthand.
In 2021, Alabama debated a bill that would criminalize medical treatment for trans youth, and advocates warned the consequences could be devastating. SB10 would have made it a felony for doctors to prescribe hormones or drugs that delay puberty to minors. VICE News went to Birmingham to hear from trans teens and a doctor fighting the proposed legislation.
In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more — faster and better. But at what cost?
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Director: Alison Klayman
Executive Producers: Maria Shriver, Christina Schwarzenegger
A Netflix Original Documentary
World Premiere at SXSW 2018
Every summer, the most prominent anti-abortion group in Texas runs training programs for pro-life college students. We gained exclusive access to the weeklong “bootcamp.”
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VICE News Tonight, HBO, 2019
Miss Queen International is the world's most prestigious beauty pageant for trans women. Transnational correspondent Rana Thamrin follows several women chasing that title in Thailand and explores the role pageant competitors can play in changing perspectives of trans people.
In this episode of the Peabody-winning series Transnational, VICE News correspondent Freddy McConnell travels the UK to hear from trans people living in limbo as they struggle to access healthcare. Some have waited years to get just an initial assessment for gender-affirming treatment, while others say they’ve been abandoned between stages of a surgical procedure. McConnell explores the impact of this neglect, and how it’s fueled by a wider culture war over trans rights.
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Peabody Award Winner, 2021
With the threat of multiple potential criminal indictments, VICE News speaks to supporters of former President Donald Trump at his first 2024 campaign rally in Waco, TX.
Utah might become the first conservative state to abolish the death penalty in nearly 50 years, and a murder case is at the center of the debate. VICE News follows families of murder victims, some of whom are in favor of abolishing, but not for the reasons you’d expect.
More than a hundred Trump supporters gathered at a bar in Scottsdale, Arizona on Election Night 2020 to watch the returns. VICE News spent the night with them, through a few hours of initial excitement, to the moment when Fox News announced that Biden had won the state.
Sports have historically been organized into two strict categories: male and female. But what about those who challenge the binary?
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VICE Investigates, A Hulu Original Series, 2020