"Last Line of Defense" - Public Defenders are facing soaring caseloads, and flat-lining budgets, and with 80% of all criminal defendants in the US unable to afford a lawyer, the system is collapsing. With the Constitutional right to fair representation in a court of law in jeopardy, Cord Jefferson heads to one of the worst hit states to see how overworked and underpaid public defenders are coping with the broken legal system.

"El Rostro" - Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, indigenous tribes are doing everything they can to save their home from exploitation. VICE travels to where multinational companies have been extracting lucrative natural resources to see how these activities are decimating the land. With the native Harakmbut people as his guide, Ben Anderson goes into the forest to explore sacred landmarks they hope will prevent companies from destroying the land for a profit.

Vice Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - Assad's Syria & Cost of Climate Change
• s05e02 - Trans Youth
• s05e03 - When the Earth Melts & The Displaced
• s05e04 - Kings of Cannabis & Into the Darkness
• s05e05 - Black and Blue & Our Bionic Future
• s05e06 - End of Amateurism
• s05e07 - Life Under Sharia & Plastic Oceans
• s05e08 - Fast Food of Arabia & Nollywood
• s05e09 - Medical Détente & Bananas
• s05e10 - Taliban Resurgence
• s05e11 - Engineering Immortality & Robot Revolution
• s05e12 - Women Behind Bars & The Business of Making Art
• s05e13 - Taking Back Iraq & Lost Generation
• s05e14 - The Politics of Terror & End of the EU?
• s05e15 - Future of Firearms & Russia 'Wins' Climate Change
• s05e16 - Cyber Supremacy & Japan Rising
• s05e17 - Last Line of Defense & El Rostro
• s05e18 - Power to the President
• s05e19 - Crude Reality & Between Oil and Water
• s05e20 - Autism Under the Lens
• s05e21 - Show of Force & Return to Somalia
• s05e22 - Controlling the Narrative & Power to Congo
• s05e23 - Dawn of a Dictator
• s05e24 - Dirty Oil & Rebuilding Our Reefs
• s05e25 - Dark Web & Future of Appalachia
• s05e26 - Divide and Conquer & Crackdown in Honduras
• s05e27 - Russian Hacking & Contagion
• s05e28 - Post-Truth News & Microbiome
• s05e29 - After ISIS & Cubs of the Caliphate

Vice Show Summary

HBO is partnering with "VICE" on an innovative news magazine show to be hosted by "VICE" founder Shane Smith, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming.

The HBO series will showcase a mix of stories from around the globe. Among the segments in production for possible inclusion in the show are: Taliban child sleeping bombers; North Korean slave labor camps; New York's underground voodoo heroin clinics; Somalian pirates; and Satanic dentists in the Pacific Northwest.