The Bamboo Union is Taiwan’s largest triad, with around 10,000 members involved in gambling and drug trafficking. Betrayal within the gang can be brutally punished, sometimes costing members a limb.

Sexpert Karley Sciortino explores the world of the first life-like male sex doll. She meets the creators pioneering the ultimate plastic companion for women.

Los Zetas Cartel brought unprecedented violence to Mexico, including executions and beheadings. Ex-military special forces, trained by the US, used their skills to become Central America’s most feared cartel.

Can people find love through the modern “mail-order bride” industry? Or is the international romance business just a scam? Sincere and unflinching, Love Me follows Western men and Ukrainian women as they embark on an unpredictable, riveting journey in search of love.

Austin Davis has eaten only mac and cheese for 17 years because of Selective Eating Disorder, an anxiety condition that causes extreme food avoidance.

Taji heads to Las Vegas with a risky blackjack plan that quickly leaves him broke. Desperate to recover, he embarks on a strange detour — from a haunted motel to a blind date coached by a male escort and guided by a mind reader.

Europe is seeing a synthetic drug boom, with 3-MMC emerging as the new party drug of choice. Zach Shucklin travels to Berlin and Amsterdam to explore its effects, the underground trade, and its impact on the continent’s nightlife.

We sail to the North Pacific Gyre, collecting point for all of the ocean's flotsam and home of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: a mythical, Texas-sized island made entirely of our trash.

Warlords, soldiers, and child laborers mine coltan, a mineral found in most electronics. Since 1990, its trade has been linked to over 5 million deaths in Congo.

A race is on to save the world’s last vaquita porpoises, accidentally killed in illegal nets set for the highly prized totoaba fish in Mexico’s Gulf of California. As global demand fuels a dangerous black market, scientists and authorities fight to stop the trade before the species disappears.

After lockdown sent dog prices soaring in the UK, a surge in dog thefts and illegal puppy imports followed. This film exposes the criminal networks behind the trade—and the people fighting to stop it.

In 2016, Utah declared pornography a public health crisis, claiming it harms brain function and promotes deviant behavior. The LDS Church supports this stance, but psychiatry doesn’t recognize porn as a clinical disorder. Critics question whether this is science or moral policing.