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  • UNDERCOVER USA

  • Thursday 25 April 2024 at 11:00PM
  • National Geographic

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Award-winning guerilla producer Mariana van Zeller takes you inside the nation's underground networks, criminal gangs and bizarre subcultures. Using a combination of hidden cameras and exclusive access, she'll penetrate the worlds of the periphery to tap into to what makes these fringe groups tick. We’ll follow Mariana and her camera-man husband, Darren Foster as they attempt to infiltrate the most elusive groups and to go further underground than they’ve ever gone before. What they’ll uncover are rarely seen worlds that'll both shock and astound.

EPISODE GUIDE

  • Undercover USA: Ghosts
    Journalists Mariana and Darren journey to some of the country's most haunted locations and examine America's obsession with the paranormal.
  • Undercover USA: Hollywood Homeless
    Mariana and Darren explore the little-seen world of America's homeless youth by sleeping rough to see what life on the streets is really like.
    Next Showing:  
    Thursday 25 April 2024 at 11:00PM - National Geographic
  • Undercover USA: Animal Undercover
    Mariana and Darren take an inside look at the long-running battle between the animal-agricultural industry and the animal-rights movement.
    Next Showing:  
    Thursday 2 May 2024 at 11:00PM - National Geographic
    Repeats:  
    Friday 3 May 2024 at 3:00AM - National Geographic

    Friday 3 May 2024 at 7:00AM - National Geographic
  • Undercover USA: American Sex Slave
    Mariana and Darren explore the world of sex trafficking in the United States, gaining an insider's perspective from victims.
  • Undercover USA: Armed & Undercover
    Journalist Mariana van Zeller and her husband Darren Foster go undercover to see how guns fall into the hands of criminals in a dangerous journey that takes them all the way to an underground tunnel in Mexico. Immersing themselves in America's gun culture and with rare access to law enforcement agencies, they expose the legal loopholes and dubious transactions that allow guns to end up on the wrong side of the law.
  • Undercover USA: Bath Salts
    In this episode, investigative journalists Mariana van Zeller and Darren Foster explore the synthetic drug craze in America. They will dive deep into this scary world with addicts and health professionals to find out why this bizarre new drug is so appealing to some while considered so dangerous by others. And they will go undercover with Law Enforcement agencies to see if this new breed of narcotics can be shut down by regulation, or if the manufactures and distributors are already too far ahead of the law.
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