Vanguard
(2006)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 6
Showdown In Klan Town
Episode 2
In this excerpt from “Vanguard,” correspondent Christof Putzel speaks with Billy Roper, a leader of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Roper now resides with his family in Harrison, Ark., considered an epicenter for the modern-day Klan. Putzel briefly traces the evolution and history of the Klan in Harrison, and interviews Roper about why he decided to move there, and his plans for keeping the town a white majority.
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The Right To Kill Stand Your Ground USA
Episode 1
Self defense or getting away with murder? “Vanguard” returns tonight as Christof Putzel examines controversial “stand your ground” laws in America.
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Season 5
Cage Fighting in the USA
Episode 14 - 12-19-2011
Mariana van Zeller explores the fastest growing sport in America - Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). MMA is now a billion-dollar industry, watched by millions on national TV. But increasingly, amateurs are stepping onto the mat and drawing blood. Mariana meets male and female cage fighters to understand why they love this violent sport. And she spends time in a church run by "The Fight Pastor," who ministers a flock of young men who fight for Jesus.
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The 99 Percent
Episode 13 - 12-12-2011
Christof Putzel moves into Zuccotti Park to explore the Occupy Wall Street movement from the inside. Produced by Brent and Craig Renaud.
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Two Americas
Episode 12 - 12-05-2011
Vanguard's "Two Americas" takes a ground-level survey of the growing economic disparity in America, profiling a month in the lives of two families in very different income brackets.
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The War on Weed
Episode 11 - 11-28-2011
Christof compares how US cities deal with weed. It’s high times in LA, while NYC cracks down on low-level pot offenses.
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Under the Knife Abroad
Episode 10 - 11-14-2011
Americans increasingly seek medical care overseas, because they can’t afford it at home. Adam Yamaguchi investigates medical tourism.
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Islamophobia
Episode 9 - 11-07-2011
Adam Yamaguchi examines the rise of Islamophobia across the US and UK, and a new, aggressive network of anti-Muslim alarmists.
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Arming the Mexican Cartels
Episode 8 - 10-31-2011
Christof Putzel reports from Juarez, Mexico, where US guns are fueling deadly drug wars.
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Recovery High
Episode 7 - 8-08-2011
Students attend a public high school outside Boston dedicated to serving drug-addicted teenagers.
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This (Illegal) American Life
Episode 6 - 8-01-2011
Mariana van Zeller explores the personal stories of just some of the more than 2 million college students who are also illegal immigrants and facing uncertain futures as they prepare to graduate.
7.2/10Haven't Seen
Tiger Farms
Episode 5 - 7-26-2011
Vanguard correspondent Adam Yamaguchi goes undercover to investigate China's lucrative black market for tigers and tiger parts, including the business of Asian zoos and breeding centers.
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City of God, Guns & Gangs
Episode 4 - 7-20-2011
Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller investigates Brazil's bold new initiative to transform Rio de Janeiro's dangerous slums (called favelas) before the country hosts the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
7.2/10Haven't Seen
Sushi to the Slaughter
Episode 3 - 7-12-2011
Adam Yamaguchi, a ravenous sushi consumer since childhood, examines the cost of the world's insatiable appetite for raw fish, namely the Bluefin tuna.
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Sex, Lies & Cigarettes
Episode 2 - 6-28-2011
Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel heads to Indonesia, where he exposes Big Tobacco's successful and deadly expansion into that country, and observes the stage being set for a David vs. Goliath battle, as a small, underfunded group of concerned advocates battle Big Tobacco and a government drunk on profits and denial.
8.4/10Haven't Seen
Gateway to Heroin
Episode 1 - 6-20-2011
Correspondent Mariana van Zeller investigates how and why OxyContin has fueled a new heroin epidemic in and around Boston.
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Season 4
Marijuana Wars, Part 2
Episode 9 - 11-22-2010
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Marijuana Wars, Part 1
Episode 8 - 11-15-2010
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Life and Death on the Border
Episode 7 - 11-08-2010
Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel travels to the U.S./Mexico border to investigate one of the most contentious issues in America today: immigration. Meeting with "coyotes," the hired smugglers who offer to take immigrants across the border for a fee, Putzel learns the methods used to evade border patrol and the dangers they face on the journey. Arrest and deportation are inherent risks, but the lack of water and scorching temperatures of the desert crossing are far more deadly. Those who do make it safely across the border face tightening immigration laws and an increasingly hostile public. Putzel ultimately crosses the border with a migrant and coyote.
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American Jihadi
Episode 6 - 7-07-2010
Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel traces the journey of a small town kid from Alabama to Somalia, where as part of Al-Shabaab he is now recruiting young Muslims from the west to wage jihad overseas.
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War Crimes
Episode 5 - 6-30-2010
Correspondent Kaj Larsen investigates the alarming rise in the number of soldiers who have been traumatized by war and are now accused of bringing the violence home. Of the more than 2 million men and women who have served in the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as many as a third of them may now have post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. A growing number of these vets are being charged with violent crimes, and Kaj travels to prisons and mental health facilities in Arizona, Colorado and Oregon to hear their stories.
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Soccer's Lost Boys
Episode 4 - 6-16-2010
Correspondent Mariana van Zeller explores the dark side to the sport's global popularity, what has been called "the new slave trade.
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The World's Toilet Crisis
Episode 3 - 6-09-2010
Vanguard correspondent Adam Yamaguchi travels to India, Singapore and Indonesia to understand why people don't use toilets and what's being done to end the practice of open defecation.
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Rape on the Reservation
Episode 2 - 6-02-2010
Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to South Dakota to examine the statistic that one in three Native American women will be raped in her lifetime.
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Missionaries of Hate
Episode 1 - 5-26-2010
Correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to Uganda, where many question whether the growing influence of American religious groups has led to a movement to make homosexuality a crime punishable by death. As an anti-gay movement spreads across the continent, gay Africans and their families face an increasingly uncertain future of isolation, imprisonment or even execution.
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The War on Weed
Episode 11 - 11-28-2011
Christof compares how US cities deal with weed. It’s high times in LA, while NYC cracks down on low-level pot offenses.
9/10Haven't Seen
Arming the Mexican Cartels
Episode 8 - 10-31-2011
Christof Putzel reports from Juarez, Mexico, where US guns are fueling deadly drug wars.
8.8/10Haven't Seen
Sex, Lies & Cigarettes
Episode 2 - 6-28-2011
Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel heads to Indonesia, where he exposes Big Tobacco's successful and deadly expansion into that country, and observes the stage being set for a David vs. Goliath battle, as a small, underfunded group of concerned advocates battle Big Tobacco and a government drunk on profits and denial.
8.4/10Haven't Seen
City of God, Guns & Gangs
Episode 4 - 7-20-2011
Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller investigates Brazil's bold new initiative to transform Rio de Janeiro's dangerous slums (called favelas) before the country hosts the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
7.2/10Haven't Seen
This (Illegal) American Life
Episode 6 - 8-01-2011
Mariana van Zeller explores the personal stories of just some of the more than 2 million college students who are also illegal immigrants and facing uncertain futures as they prepare to graduate.
7.2/10Haven't Seen
