Shane Smith (Producer)
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Works
VICE
A documentary news series with a taboo-breaking team who deliver incredible news stories from around the world.
Release Date2013-04-05
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Charactersd Self - Correspondent
Episode Count1
Vote Count76
Inside Sudan
"VICE travels to the most dangerous country in the world to figure out what the hell is happening in Darfur. In the video, Vice founder Shane Smith dons a djellaba and walks through the streets of Khartoum, visits a displaced persons camp filled with over 300,000 people and encounters the notorious SPLA (Sudan People Liberation Army)."
Release Date2007-03-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Himself
Vote Count1
Shane Smith Has Questions
Host Shane Smith discusses fundamental truths of today’s top social and political issues.
Release Date2024-10-24
Charactersd Host
Episode Count3
The Hermit Kingdom: Basketball Diplomacy
A trip to North Korea to play hoops and meet with supreme leader Kim Jong-un. With NBA great Dennis Rodman and a trio of Harlem Globetrotters in tow, VICE sent Ryan Duffy to the capital of Pyongyang for a tour of the city, a basketball clinic, an exhibition game, and a first-ever meeting between the leader and an American delegation.
Release Date2014-02-23
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Charactersd Himself
VICE Special Report: A House Divided
President Obama speaks to 'VICE' about the post-election political climate and the fierce partisan fighting that dominated his Presidency.
Release Date2016-12-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Self - Correspondent
Vote Count1
The VICE Guide to North Korea
"Getting into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VBS has ever dealt with. They finally said, “OK, OK, you can come. But only as tourists.” At the airport, the North Korean consulate brought us to a restaurant and these women came out and started singing North Korean nationalist songs. We were thinking, “Look, we were just on a plane for 20 hours. Can we just go to bed?” but this guy with our group who was from the LA Times told us, “Everyone in here besides us is secret police. If you don’t act excited then you’re not going to get your visa. So we got drunk and jumped up onstage and sang songs with the girls. The next day we got our visas. A lot of people we had gone with didn’t get theirs. That was our first hint at just what a freaky, freaky trip we were embarking on…" -VICE Founder Shane Smith
Release Date2008-07-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Himself
VICE Special Report: Countdown to Zero
An examination of the recent breakthroughs in eradicating the AIDS virus, and the challenges still faced by millions of HIV patients as doctors and organizations race to bring a cure to the masses.
Release Date2015-12-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self - Host
We Tried Sneaking Journalists Into North Korea
"Sneaking into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VICE has ever dealt with. In North Korea, if you get caught being a journalist when you're supposed to be a tourist, you go to jail, or worse. Our rare footage is some of the craziest ever captured, providing an honest look inside the hermit nation."
Release Date2012-04-16
Charactersd Themself
Conan
A late night television talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien.
Release Date2010-11-08
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count244
Shelter in Place with Shane Smith
VICE founder Shane Smith hosts a series of chats with experts, thought leaders and political figures.
Release Date2020-04-09
Charactersd Self - Host
Episode Count13
VICE Special Report: Fixing the System
Along with the trip to an Oklahoma federal prison with Obama, Fixing the System takes an in-depth look at all the interlocking pieces of the complicated criminal justice system, from prisoners and their families to the judiciary and community reformers.
Release Date2015-09-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Page One: Inside the New York Times
Unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity.
Release Date2011-04-29
Charactersd Self
Vote Count62
North Korean Labor Camps
Founder of VICE Shane Smith spends an eternity on a train and hops out at the end of the line in Siberia to investigate logging camps that use North Korean slave labor.
Release Date2011-01-01
Charactersd Self - Host
Vote Count1
Vice Is Broke
An investigation into the once high-flying digital news outlet that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2023 after boasting a valuation of $5.7 billion in 2017.
Release Date2025-08-29
Charactersd Self (archive footage)
Vote Count4
The Cannibal Warlords of Liberia
Vice travels to West Africa to rummage through the messy remains of a country ravaged by 14 years of civil war. Despite the United Nation’s eventual intervention, most of Liberia’s young people continue to live in abject poverty, surrounded by filth, drug addiction, and teenage prostitution. The former child soldiers who were forced into war have been left to fend for themselves, the murderous warlords who once led them in cannibalistic rampages have taken up as so-called community leaders, and new militias are lying in wait for the opportunity to reclaim their country from a government they rightly mistrust. America’s one and only foray into African colonialism is keeping a very uneasy peace indeed.
Release Date2009-09-18
Charactersd Self - Host
Vote Count4
VICE Special Report: Killing Cancer
Reflecting on personal losses to cancer, Shane Smith explores the world of viral treatments for cancer. The report delves into the world of measles, the common cold, and HIV as possible cures with mind-blowing results.
Release Date2015-02-27
Charactersd Self - Host
The Beach Bum
An irreverent comedy about the misadventures of Moondog, a rebellious stoner and lovable rogue who lives large.
Release Date2019-03-21
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count544
White Lightnin'
Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, abides living legend Jesco White, "the dancing outlaw". As a boy Jesco was in and out of reform school and the insane asylum. To keep him out of trouble, his daddy D-Ray taught him the art of mountain dancing, a frenzied version of tap dancing to wild country banjo music. After his father's death, crazy Jesco dons his father's tap shoes and takes his show on the road.
Release Date2009-01-19
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count39
Voicemail
After five years of no communication, Clem receives a voicemail from Joel, his ex-boyfriend. He’s in town and wants to meet up. Thinking he is over Joel, Clem decides to meet up but soon realizes his feelings are more complicated.
Release Date2019-04-19
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Lords of Chaos
A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1990s results in a very violent outcome.
Release Date2018-09-20
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count521
The Bad Batch
After being exiled to a fenced-off wasteland, Arlen is kidnapped by a group of cannibals and goes on a journey to reunite a missing girl with her father.
Release Date2017-06-23
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1135
Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock
A reckless joyride into the darkest corners of popular music that delves deep into the mind of Mick Rock, the genius photographer who immortalized the seventies and the rise to rock stardom of many legendary musicians.
Release Date2017-07-21
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count25
Tokoloshe
Back in June, we invited South African rave-rap crew Die Antwoord to play their first show in New York City. They are one of our favorite bands and their performance that day was one of the most hectic, intense and amazing shows we had seen in a long time. While we were hanging out with them here, Ninja and Yo-Landi kept talking about a little monster called Tokoloshe, the most feared of all African demons. Ninja told us about how when he was growing up, his nanny would use a stack of bricks to raise her bed up, just to keep the Tokoloshe away at night. It turns out this is a fairly common practice among women in South Africa since this hairy, pot-bellied dwarf, unlike your typical Western boogiemonsters, is believed to have a penis the size of a horse’s and a penchant for sneaking into people’s bedrooms and raping them.
Release Date2010-11-11
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
The Report
The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.
Release Date2019-09-12
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1110
NOLA: Life, Death and Heavy Blues from the Bayou
A seven-part series examining the people and the culture that helped foster bands like Down, Eyehategod, Crowbar, Acid Bath, Goatwhore and many others. The documentary features in-depth interviews discussing the bands, catastrophe, drugs, suicide, murder, and records that helped shape the New Orleans sound known the world over.
Release Date2014-09-16
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count7
Vote Count1
Swansea Love Story
In 2009, Swansea drug agencies reported a 180 percent rise in heroin use, and it's visible on the city's streets. Early one morning we meet a young, homeless couple named Amy and Cornelius in a city centre alley. As heroin-addicted alcoholics, they're smack in the middle of two of South Wales's most harrowing epidemics. An award-winning look at a generation lost to heroin, as told through the tragic love story of Amy and Cornelius.
Release Date2010-10-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
The story of Iraq's only heavy metal band and their fight to play music.
Release Date2007-09-08
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count20
Crystal Swan
Minsk, Belarus, 1996. Velya, an aspiring DJ, wants to move to Chicago to make her dreams come true, but bureaucracy, a phone line and the human condition will put obstacles in her way that will be difficult to avoid.
Release Date2018-08-29
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count59
Shelter
At the Covenant House, located on the outskirts of the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana, the doors never close, and there is always room for one more. On any given day, a constant stream of young people carrying everything they own in plastic garbage bags fills the courtyard. The prospective residents are just teenagers, but have already been labeled drug addicts, schizophrenics, criminals and outcasts. As one staff member puts it, “the most damaged population of youth that exists in society today”. Filming over the course of a full year, brothers Brent and Craig Renaud tell the raw and emotional stories of the incredible kids who seek shelter at the Covenant House, and the staff struggling to work miracles everyday on their behalf.
Release Date2017-06-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2
Lil Bub & Friendz
Called “the most famous cat on the Internet,” the wide-eyed perma-kitten Lil Bub is the adorable embodiment of the Web’s fascination with all things cats. Join Lil Bub and her owner on wild cross-country romp as they meet the Internet’s most famous cat-lebrities. Chock full of adorable kitties, hilarious videos and the dedicated cat enthusiasts who love them, Lil Bub & Friendz is a fun and hip peek behind the memes we know and love. Includes Mike "The Dude" Bridavsky, Ben Lashes, Grumpy Cat, Nyan Cat, Keyboard Cat.
Release Date2013-04-18
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count9
Beautiful Liverpool
There are more gyms and tanning salons per head in Liverpool than anywhere else in the UK. We meet the eccentrics that define Europe's capital city of beauty, including: tan-obsessed Carolyn, who's willing to inject herself with chemicals to darken her skin, Liverpool's "King of Bling", a celebrity hairdresser, and many more.
Release Date2011-04-30
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
All This Mayhem
A searing account of what happens when raw talent and extreme personalities collide. In this unflinching, never-before-seen account of drugs and the dark side of professional skateboarding, brothers Tas and Ben Pappas' intense bond and charisma take them from the pinnacle of their sport into a spiraling world of self-destruction.
Release Date2014-07-10
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count62
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
Offbeat documentarian Chris Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the persona of idiosyncratic comedian Andy Kaufman on the set of Man on the Moon.
Release Date2017-09-05
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count712
Basketball Diplomacy
With NBA great Dennis Rodman and a trio of Harlem Globetrotters in tow, VICE traveled to the capital of Pyongyang for a tour of the city, a basketball clinic, and an exhibition game.
Release Date2013-06-14
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Drugs, Skate & Violence: Filmmaker Harmony Korine
Harmony Korine has spent his life disrupting traditional cinema with his provocative films. What most people don’t know is that first and foremost he's a skater.
Release Date2017-10-25
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Saving South Sudan
The famous adventurer Robert Young Pelton travels with a former "Lost Boy" child soldier back to the violence of South Sudan to track down the recently deposed Vice President Riek Machar in his secret jungle camp and become the first to film the brutal White Army in combat.
Release Date2014-05-22
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Outsider
Beyond Hollywood there lies “outsider cinema”, the backyard domain of some of the world’s most creative and truly cracked filmmakers ever to have cranked a camera.
Release Date2017-03-17
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count4
LARPing Saved My Life
Meet Jon Gallagher, a LARPer with Asperger's syndrome, and see how LARPing helps him make friends, learn social skills, get a job, and in many ways, saves his life.
Release Date2015-10-07
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Hamilton's Pharmacopeia: The Sapo Diaries
Hamilton Morris heads to the heart of the Brazilian Amazon to investigate a traditional drug extracted from the screen secretions of a jungle frog.
Release Date2009-06-01
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
The Third Industrial Revolution
The global economy is in crisis. Our biosphere's inability to absorb human activity, combined with the exhaustion of natural resources, declining productivity, slow growth, rising unemployment, and steep inequality, forces us to rethink our economic models. Where do we go from here? In this compelling feature-length documentary, social and economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin lays out a road map to usher in a new era of sustainable development. A Third Industrial Revolution will unfold when three technologies emerge and converge: new communication, new sources of energy, and new modes of mobility. But, in the context of climate change, it needs to happen fast. Change of this magnitude requires political will and a profound ideological shift.
Release Date2017-04-23
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count4
Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
In the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan, tradition is king. Polo's still played with a freshly killed goat and the men still marry their women the old-fashioned way: by abducting them off the street and forcing them to be their wife. Bride kidnapping is a supposedly ancient custom that's made a major comeback since the fall of Communism and now accounts for nearly half of all marriages in some parts.
Release Date2011-12-08
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Crack Climbs and Land Mines, Alex Honnold in Angola
Alex Honnold is the most accomplished free climber in the world. Angola is a southwest African country that recently emerged from 27 years of bloody civil war. What brings together these strange bedfellows you ask? Some of the most epic unclimbed rocks in the world, and a community needing help to diffuse the hidden land mines leftover from the conflict. (Plus a shadowy local hotel magnate, but we'll get into that later). This is Alex Honnold in Angola, for one of the most unique adventures of his storied climbing career this far.
Release Date2015-12-15
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Fishing Without Nets
In Somalia, principled, young husband and father Abdi turns to piracy to support his family. While his wife and child wait for him in Yemen, an outdated and fragile satellite phone is his only connection to all he truly values. Abdi and his fellow pirates hit the high seas and capture a French oil tanker, demanding a hefty ransom. During the long, tedious wait for the cash to arrive, Abdi forges a tentative friendship with one of the hostages. When some of the pirates resort to violence, Abdi must make dramatic choices to determine his course.
Release Date2014-07-30
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count5
eSports: The Celebrity Millionaires of Competitive Gaming
Today, there are more people in the world who play League of Legends than there are people who live in France. We wanted to look inside this rapidly expanding world of competitive gaming, so VICE host Matt Shea flew to South Korea, a country where so-called "eSports" can either make you rich and famous or land you in rehab.
Release Date2015-03-23
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
The Police vs Grime Music - A Noisey Film
In February, Just Jam's event at The Barbican was cancelled at the last minute. It was an event that seemed to be yet another victim of the London authorities now notorious risk assessment procedure, Form 696.
Release Date2014-05-29
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Light Up Gold Road Trip
Brooklyn-by-way-of-Texas indie rockers Parquet Courts are blowing up in a big way, and we couldn't be more thrilled for the guys—even though bassist Sean Yeaton gave up his gig as editor of Motherboard to become a superstar (tough call, we know). We tagged along on their recent tour to document midnight desert peyote sessions and foreign language festival love. Here's a statement from director Andy Capper: "When Sean Yeaton (bassist) quit his job to leave behind the safety of his desk for the wild life of a performing minstrel I decided to get a camera and follow him on the first three weeks of his new life. We went from Mexico to Texas and London in a very short period of time. I love Sean and his band — Austin, Andrew and Max — and I hope that this is reflected in this short film that we made together."
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
The Vice Guide to Travel
The Vice Guide to Travel is a documentary-style travel show released in 2006 by Vice Media, as part of the VBS.tv online television division of Vice. The show follows Vice employees as they travel to dangerous, weird, and offbeat locations throughout the globe.
Release Date2007-02-07
Episode Count4
North Korean Film Madness
We went to North Korea to try and penetrate the Korean Feature Film Studio, the state-run film production facility west of Pyongyang: a sprawling lot that at its height produced around 40 films a year.
Release Date2011-04-20
Vote Count1