Sideways World

Detroit is the poster child for urban blight, but it's also the most hyped comeback city in the US. Rick gets the lowdown on the continued growing pains of the Motor City.

Peru’s cocaine industry is expanding beyond the VRAEM, bringing new violence to Indigenous communities in the Amazon and along the Brazilian border. We embed with traffickers, militias, and affected communities to see the impact firsthand.

Unicult is an unconventional online cult founded in 2012 by pop-spiritual leader Unicole Unicron. Its millennial followers explore topics like crystals and aliens while promoting joy and self-empowerment.

A film shifts focus from former ISIS fighter Deso Dogg to civilians fighting terror groups in northern Syria. Volunteers join Kurdish forces to stop IS and build a society based on equality and freedom.

Damian Abraham explores Delaware’s ultra-violent world of Deathmatch wrestling. This brutal style uses weapons, light bulbs, and barbed wire for maximum bloodshed. The film follows wrestler David Markland (DJ Hyde) and his CZW Tournament of Death.

The Camorra, one of the world’s oldest criminal groups, is changing in Naples. Child gangs and social media stunts are replacing the old rule of omertà. We visit Le Vele Di Scampia and Parco Verde to meet a child gang and a social worker trying to stop them.

Tir Dhondy explores heroin users who claim to maintain normal lives while using the drug. The film asks whether it’s truly possible to be a “functioning” heroin user.

Infamous thief Vincenzo Pipino stole millions in gold, art, and jewels — and shared the profits with the poor. Now retired, he tells all.

Artist Andi Schmied posed as a billionaire to access New York’s ultra-luxury homes — and uncovered a city of empty penthouses amid a housing crisis.

An honest, intimate look at the sexual lives of everyday American women. From first experiences to lifelong passion, told with humor and candor. A rare, unsensationalized voice on female sexuality.

South Korean scientists are attempting to clone the prehistoric woolly mammoth using frozen specimens from Siberia. Shady tusk hunters aid the project by uncovering mammoths in the melting permafrost. We travel to Seoul, Yakutsk, and Moscow to explore humanity’s quest to profit from—and revive—this extinct species.

Vinyl Nation is the comprehensive documentary about vinyl - past and present - taking in the fandom, the production, its sound, and its history including its road-bumps, and a new generation of fans that smash the stereotype of it being the preserve of older white males.