After a riot, inmates seize control of an overcrowded Colombian prison. Boris, a Colombian raised in London’s Grenfell Tower, films his fight to survive on an illegal phone during the pandemic.

Like many millennials, Luke graduated with massive student debt—$130,000 to be exact. Desperate, he hatched a plan to smuggle cocaine from Panama to the U.S. to pay it off.

Zing Tsjeng explores how many of the UK’s famous country homes were built on colonial and slave trade wealth. Heritage organisations are now uncovering their unvarnished history.

Taji Ameen started work at a custom fetish video company, assisting with everything from set prep to cleanup on a highly personalized shoot.

In Miami’s cutthroat luxury car rental scene, everyone wants to look like a celebrity. But with Ferraris and fast money on the line, it’s hard to tell who’s faking it — and who’s making it.

George King illegally free-climbs some of the world’s most secure buildings without safety gear. After a prison sentence for scaling London’s Shard at 19, his obsession only intensified.

Australia’s professional poo divers keep sewerage plants running by diving into toxic sludge to clear blockages. It’s filthy, dangerous work — but they say the smell “smells like money.

In parts of North India, unmarried boys live separately in “baithaks,” only returning home for meals. We travel Rajasthan and Haryana to explore this rarely documented system of gender-segregated living.

In North Dakota, a new generation of young, wealthy drillers is fueling the controversial world of fracking.

The FLDS split from mainstream Mormonism to continue practicing polygamy, founding Short Creek on the Utah–Arizona border. In 2011, their leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life plus 20 years for sexually abusing two child brides.

In Italy, the lines between Freemasonry and the Mafia are often blurred, from local accountants to national politicians. We separate fact from myth to uncover how deep these criminal links run.

Half a million Californians are addicted to meth, with the crisis spreading across Mexico, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia. Misunderstood and stigmatized, meth shows how prohibition fuels addiction, violence, and inequality — everyone loses, except the drugs themselves.