The BEST episodes of VICE News Tonight
Every episode of VICE News Tonight ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of VICE News Tonight!
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#1 - Episode 236 - Political Ads
Season 2017 - Episode 186 - Aired 11/14/2017
With the release of their Iron Stache ad for Wl Democrat Randy Bryce, Matt McLaughlin and Bill Hyers have received attention for changing the way political ads are made. VICE News documents their unique process as they produce an ad for PA Lt. Governor candidate John Fetterman. Watch every weeknight at 7:30 ET.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Episode 286 - Black Paradise & Battling Over Macedonia
Season 2018 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/5/2018
3:12 VICE News visits the district represented by Devin Nunes to find out whether the Congressman’s recent actions represent the interests of his constituents. And speaks to his most prominent antagonist Andrew Janz, a DA and registered Democrat. 8:53 Preliminary numbers out this week are showing how the latest round of Obamacare enrollment is shaking out: overall signups are down nationwide. 11:10 Organisers held a million-man rally in Athens on Sunday in protest over the name dispute with neighbour Macedonia. VICE News traveled to the protests to find out what’s in a name - and why some Greeks will never accept Macedonia keeping it. 15:15 Since the election of President Trump, trip-planning organizations have reported upticks in interest for services that allow black Americans to bond and visit places with African roots. VICE News goes inside a Costa Rican wellness retreat dedicated specifically to women of color.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Episode 326 - Egypt's Jon Stewart & Hungary's Opposition Rises
Season 2018 - Episode 64 - Aired 4/5/2018
On Sunday, Hungarians will go to the polls for their parliamentary election. hlungarian populist Viktor Orban, who has run largely on an anti-migrant platform, looks set to win his third consecutive term as Prime Minister. VICE News looks at the state of Orban's government. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - Episode 181 - Charlottesville: Race and Terror
Season 2017 - Episode 131 - Aired 8/14/2017
On Saturday hundreds of white nationalists, alt-righters, and neo-Nazis traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia to participate in the “Unite the Right” rally. By Saturday evening three people were dead – one protester, and two police officers – and many more injured.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - Episode 260 - Paris's Last Porno & The Christmas Tree Shortage
Season 2017 - Episode 210 - Aired 12/20/2017
3:43 VICE News travels to Puerto Rico to find out why restoring power there has been so difficult after Hurricane Maria. 11:25 President Trump and congressional Republicans took a victory lap at the White House today, after final passage of their tax reform bill gave them their first big legislative win of the Trump era. 14:20 The National Retail Federation expects Americans to spend a whopping $600 apiece on presents for family and friends this Christmas. There’s just one problem: a shortage of trees to put them under. It’s a slow-moving aftershock of the Great Recession, being felt years later in places like Oregon—the heart of Christmas tree country. 17:45 The last remaining porn cinema in Paris is preparing to spin its last reel, before it closes at the end of the year. VICE News profiled its veteran pornographer-in-chief Maurice Laroche as he reflected on how digital smut and gentrification killed a Parisian tradition.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - Episode 347 - Deported Veterans & Seattle Fights Amazon
Season 2018 - Episode 85 - Aired 5/14/2018
The Trump administration has officially moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. The historic yet controversial move was marked by an official ceremony in the city. VICE News looks at the reaction to the relocation, including protests and intense clashes in the Gaza Strip. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - Episode 324
Season 2018 - Episode 62 - Aired 4/3/2018
Purdue Pharmaceuticals, maker of the opioid painkiller OxyContin, announced it will no longer actively market the product to doctors. VICE News visits a former Purdue sales representative to discuss the epidemic. Watch every weeknight at 7:30 ET.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - Episode 247 - Nuclear National Parks & Flynn Pleads Guilty
Season 2017 - Episode 197 - Aired 12/1/2017
The nuclear production complex called the Hanford Site was a crucial part of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. government’s secret program that produced the atomic bomb. Plutonium developed at Hanford was used in the bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. Now, the U.S. isn’t just preserving this piece of history—it’s showing it off. Randall Woodfin won an unexpected upset over incumbent Birmingham Mayor William Bell by invigorating a grassroots network of young voters with a progressive pitch that echoed Bernie Sanders' 2016 campaign. VICE News follows him during his first day on the job as he meets with government officials, his new constituents and plots out how to turn the city around. After years of trying and failing, Republicans may finally succeed at allowing drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife refuge — thanks to the Tax Reform bill. VICE News talks to Senator Cantwell about why this push to include the ANWR might be more than just a bargaining chip. Plus, Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn is expected to plead guilty to lying to the FB and Director Guillermo del Toro talks about his latest film, "Shape of Water."
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - Episode 239 - The Crumbling London Parliament & Healthcare Homeworkers
Season 2017 - Episode 189 - Aired 11/17/2017
Although home healthcare is one of the fastest growing professions in the United States, the workers are some of the lowest paid and least protected in the country. VICE News travels to Georgia, where domestic workers weren’t guaranteed a minimum wage until 2015. If the GOP’s new tax plan becomes law, there’ll be plenty of big winners—including large corporations and the heirs to wealthy estates. But there’ll also be quite a few losers, and among that group, oddly, will be graduate students. The London Parliament needs urgent repairs that will cost some 4.5 billion dollars and take at least six years -- and that’s only if lawmakers vote in favor of moving everybody out during the renovation. A debate on the matter is scheduled for December. Meanwhile, the asbestos-ridden, Victorian relic they’re debating the matter IN is falling apart faster than repairs can be made.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - Episode 215 - The Front Lines Of California's Fires & Capturing Carbon
Season 2017 - Episode 165 - Aired 10/16/2017
Massive fires continue to sweep through California in one of the deadliest fires to plague the state since 1933. Early Sunday morning, VICE News began a 24-hour embed with a fire engine crew. On Friday, Trump made his statement on Iran’s nuclear program, ahead of Sunday (Oct 15) deadline. What will this mean for Iran and nuclear diplomacy? The Paris Climate Agreement was a major step forward in the fight against climate change. But experts say the goal of keeping temperature rise below 2 degrees will be impossible without physically removing carbon from the atmosphere. VICE News went to Switzerland to learn more about the technology that may help save the planet.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - Episode 183 - Tunnels Underneath Palestine & Joke-Theft
Season 2017 - Episode 133 - Aired 8/16/2017
VICE News goes to East Jerusalem to explore the concealed underground tunnels, causing damage to the homes of Palestinian residents living above the excavation sites. We interview Charlottesville Mayor Michael Signer after the memorial of Heather Heyer, who was killed during the white supremacist rally. Also, a look into how difficult it is to own a joke legally, and to prove it's been stolen.
#12 - Episode 167 - Carrier Layoffs & Bricklaying Robots
Season 2017 - Episode 117 - Aired 7/19/2017
During the White House's self-proclaimed 'Made in America' week, a Carrier factory in Indiana lays off more than 600 employees. A look at George Soros's funding of district attorney races. Plus, we go on a night trip with New York City's flower flasher.
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - Episode 149 - Flint Charged & Russian Eviction
Season 2017 - Episode 99 - Aired 6/14/2017
A gunman opened fire as Republican members of a congressional baseball team had their practice. VICE News explains what happened. Plus, VICE News reports on the mass protests in Moscow over one of the biggest urban resettlement plans in history. And, we visit the first-ever ''wellness summit'' held by Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow's much-derided lifestyle brand.
#14 - Episode 135 - Trump in Saudi Arabia & Iran's Election
Season 2017 - Episode 85 - Aired 5/18/2017
We head to Saudi Arabia as the country awaits Trump's first foreign trip as president --and a massive arms deal with the United States. Roger Ailes, the mastermind of right wing media, died at age 77. We take a look at the political impact of the Fox News founder. We were on the ground in Tehran before Iran's presidential election. Plus, “Yesterday on the Internet” is back with a recap on millennials and their avocado toast.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - Episode 180 - Narcan On The Rise & Retail Apocalypse
Season 2017 - Episode 130 - Aired 8/10/2017
VICE News meets with residents of Middletown, Ohio, to discuss how the city should address reviving overdose victims-- but sympathy seems to be wearing thin. This tech-food startup has recently faced a slew of negative coverage accusing it of classic Silicon Valley hubris and overreach. Plus, a look at the so-called ''retail apocalypse'' in the United States.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - 100 Days of Donald Trump
Season 2017 - Episode 73 - Aired 4/28/2017
VICE News Tonight takes an unfiltered look at Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, in stories told by the people who have the most to gain or lose from Trump's administration. We spoke with people who are truly hopeful and feel validated. With people whose safety and liberty is at stake. And we talked to the insiders who understand what it's like to work with the most powerful person in the world. After all, the first hundred days (and the next hundred, and the next hundred after that) are not about what the president says in 140 characters. What matters is the impact of his policies on people across the country and the world.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - Episode 122 - Milo Yiannopoulos & Writers Strike
Season 2017 - Episode 72 - Aired 4/27/2017
Millions of bats have died from white-nose syndrome, a disease spreading at an alarming rate across the U.S. We went to Michigan to explore one affected area with some researchers who are trying to stop its spread. Plus, The Writers Guild of America, the union representing more than 12,000 film and TV writers, is on the brink of a strike over wages. We explain what that could mean for your favorite shows. A report from Russia on workers protesting a new tax called Platon shows how deep anti-government feelings really go there - and ultimately, how impossible it is to wage a challenge against the regime. Finally, we sit down with right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopulous in Miami. Milo tells us how he is seizing the moment to return to relevance - or at least trying to.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - Episode 101 - London Attack & Border Patrol Power
Season 2017 - Episode 51 - Aired 3/22/2017
We examine Trump's plan to hire 15,000 immigration and border patrol agents. Seb Walker reports from Molenbeek, the Brussels neighborhood some call Europe's "jihad capital," to see what has changed since the Paris attacks. Plus, The Royal Shakespeare Company produced a unique adaption of The Tempest in honor of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we speak to some of the people that brought the performance to life.
Watch Now:Amazon#19 - Episode 182 - Memorializing the Confederacy & The Super Bowl of eSports
Season 2017 - Episode 132 - Aired 8/15/2017
We report on the remaining Robert E. Lee statues. Where are they? What do they symbolize? How many more potential conflicts could we see? Then, we travel to Mexico and meet with a father who was deported there while his biological children remain in the U.S. He keeps up with their lives through the only window he has: Youtube. Plus, what it's like at the Super Bowl of esports?
Watch Now:Amazon#20 - Episode 179 - Queen of Scream & Online Charter Schools
Season 2017 - Episode 129 - Aired 8/9/2017
VICE News reports on the controversy over online charter schools in Ohio. We also interview ''Queen of Scream'' Melissa Cross, a 60-year-old singer who tours with some of the biggest names in hardcore music. The Democratic Socialists of America are growing in numbers, but the party still needs to appeal to some non-white demographics.
Watch Now:Amazon#21 - Episode 184 - Russian Radio in D.C. & Legal Bike Theft
Season 2017 - Episode 134 - Aired 8/17/2017
The Russians have taken over Washington DC's country music radio station. VICE News visits the station accused of attempting to influence the debate in the US via the media. A conversation with Tim Scott, the only black Republican senator, about Charlottesville, racism and Trump. Plus, a look inside Seattle's new Beijing-based bikesharing program that seems a lot like legal bike theft.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - Episode 188 - Spain's Sea of Plastic & Opioid Emergency
Season 2017 - Episode 138 - Aired 8/24/2017
We travel to Spain where migrant workers are barely being paid and living in squalor while they pick the fruit and vegetables sold in Western European supermarkets. Then, we head to St. Louis where the increased minimum wage is about to revert back to $7.70 an hour due to state labor laws. Plus, we found one Republican not ducking his constituents in the Trump era. And, what do the air guitar national championships look like? We went to Finland to find out. go to St. Louis and interview workers and business owners
Watch Now:Amazon#23 - Episode 189 - Trump Pardons Arpaio & Harvey Floods Houston
Season 2017 - Episode 139 - Aired 8/28/2017
President Trump defends his pardon of Joe Arpaio. In the wake of his most recent tweets on the transgender military ban, we spoke to one trans soldier on the ban's implications. Then, VICE News follows one of Alaska's few certified veterinary pathologists as she examines the bodies of dead wildlife across the state. Plus, how emergency services and communities are responding to Hurricane Harvey's devastating floods.
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - Episode 213 - Beginning of Bump Stocks & ISIS in Hawija
Season 2017 - Episode 163 - Aired 10/11/2017
We meet the man who green-lit bump stocks, Trump is going hard on America's nuclear weapons, Paul Gosar is being sued by the woman he blocked on Facebook and strong winds rippling across Northern California are refueling close to a dozen wildfires. Plus, Liam Gallagher comes back to review new music.
Watch Now:Amazon#25 - Episode 217 - Remnants Of California Wildfires & 'Catholicism's Breitbart'
Season 2017 - Episode 167 - Aired 10/18/2017
Inside Catholicism’s Breitbart, the site 'Church Militant,' as founder Michael Voris is targeting liberal priests Chinese Communist Party began its 19th Party Congress, bringing 2,300 delegates together. President Xi Jinping is expected to be re-elected as party leader for another five years. VICE News looks at how Gen Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping, has changed the party and country. In the California neighborhood of Coffey Park, nearly every house has already burned to the ground. Instead of rows of homes, there’s now a forest of charred chimneys standing in piles of ash. And now that there’s nothing left to burn, recovery workers are beginning the search for anyone who didn’t make it out alive. Plus, VICE's Suroosh Alvi tries on a mech suit in South Korea.
Watch Now:Amazon