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The innovations, failures and incredible achievements of some of the most successful businesses in history, from megastores like Costco and Walmart to shipping giants like FedEx and UPS, that forever changed the way Americans live.

This docuseries travels deep into the heart of the food supply chain to reveal unsavory truths and expose hidden forces that shape what we eat.

LuLaRoe, the billion dollar clothing empire accused of misleading thousands of women with their multi-level marketing platform.

To detail how drugs push people into risky - even deadly - behaviors, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit substances.

Actor Michael K. Williams delves into the dangerous world of black market trade, exploring the illicit deals and underground economies that fuel it. Through personal stories and interviews with those involved, Williams sheds light on the consequences of these illegal transactions.

Actor and former White House Associate Director of Public Engagement, Kal Penn, takes viewers around the world to meet key players behind some of the more serious and bizarre movements in today's economy.

From the illegal weapons to the underground sex trade, nothing is off limits and everything is for sale in illegal, underground markets. It's an industry that is brutal, exploitative, and corrupt where what you buy isn't always what it seems. Despite efforts to crack down on these illegal trades, more than $625 billion makes it's way into the US economy each year for illegal trade goods. Unprecedented inside access brings light to the inner workings of the last bastion of "free" enterprise, charting a global path to the underworld economy. Workers, suppliers, sellers, customers - and the law enforcement trying to keep it in check - share their experience of a hidden world that touches us all.

In this global series presented by Michael K. Williams, we embed ourselves inside criminal enterprises to see how contraband moves across borders, and explore the politics behind a hidden economy nearly as big as the one you know.

Follow a young couple's journey as they aim to establish the world's first legal marijuana empire, navigating the challenges of the industry. High Profits is a captivating documentary series that explores the complexities of the cannabis industry, from legalization to business strategies.

Intrepid filmmaker Cullen Hoback dives into one of the most enduring and high-stakes mysteries in technology and finance: the origins of Bitcoin and the identity of its anonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.

The rise of Finnish company Nokia to become the world's leading manufacturer of mobile phones, before a later an equally nearly wiped out from the smartphone market.

Manufacturing supply chains create a vital distribution web that links producers and consumers across the planet, but as a result of the COVID pandemic, these critical shipping connections now face catastrophic disruptions sparking a global crisis.

Sex. Drugs. Exotic animals. Human organs. With the right amount of money, they're all there for the taking-and much closer than you'd want to think. Crossing the globe from Asia to Africa, to the Americas and Europe, our host, Nelufar Hedayat, goes under the radar and just out of sight to track down these thriving black marketplaces. What Nelufar finds is a world of profit-driven dealers, compliant middlemen, bribe-taking officials, poachers and smugglers who operate vast transportation networks, packaging factories, safe houses...all the while moving enormous amounts of money. The numbers surrounding the world's underground markets tell a story equal parts horror and human. In the last 40 years, 95% of the world's rhino population has been lost. Counterfeit pharmaceuticals have captured $200 billion on the black market. And perhaps most alarming, human trafficking has reached dizzying highs-or perhaps more appropriately, staggering lows-as a $32 billion global industry. Plain and simple, if there's a demand for it, it can-and will-be trafficked. In each of the eight, one-hour episodes Nelufar traces the supply chain of one good from consumer to source and finds that the illegal world is often closer to the legitimate one that you might think. She explores the causes and effects of trafficking: species hunted to near extinction; miners forced to pay protection money to terrorists; people forced by poverty to sell their organs. Travelling by plane, taxi, boat and rickshaw, Nelufar makes her way through bustling markets, down dingy alleyways and into more than a few dead ends, as we witness every step of her investigation. In the world The Traffickers shows us, we'll find more questions than answers-and perhaps see that things are not as black and white as they first might seem.

As Brexit brings new hope, can a new generation of fishermen save their traditional way of life?

The story of the coverup of the century: of the boss atop a trillion dollar industry who discovered a shocking truth 40 years ago, created a black ops campaign to hide the evidence, and stopped at nothing to keep the money flowing, as the world burned.

Slavery made the modern world. It transformed the economies of the West and the demography of the globe. It was one of the biggest movements of people in all of history. 1000 Years of Slavery transforms our understanding of slavery and the slave trade.  It will uncover forgotten stories, breath-taking locations, living communities, cutting-edge archaeology. It will reveal connections that link the history of slavery to modern communities across the world, and using drama-recon, it will bring to life key events in this thousand year history.

25 tons on week beached near a french Aquitain village. Most of its resident are out of work. What should they do? It will change forever the resident morals, everyday lives and habits.