Rule Britannia (TV series)

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Rule Britannia
GenreDocumentary
Created by Vice Films
Country of origin United Kingdom
Production
Production locationUnited Kingdom
Production company Vice Media
Original release
Network VBS.tv
Release6 June 2009 (2009-06-06)

Rule Britannia is a series of online documentary episodes produced by Vice Films. The series debuted on VBS.tv in 2010. Most episodes are between 15 and 30 minutes.

Contents

Swansea was featured in the 2011 episode "Swansea Love Story", which covers a heroin epidemic in the UK. It was directed by Andy Capper and was a Webby Award Official Honoree. [1] [2]

Episodes

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TitleCrewSynopsis
12009 Jun 6"The Deer Hunter"In the first episode, Vice UK goes to the Scottish Highlands to kill one of the world's most beautiful animals.
22009 Jul 12"Blackpool: Las Vegas of the North" Andy Capper A week in North England's decaying fantasy island, Blackpool.
32010 Feb 9"Swansea Love Story"Andy Capper with Leo LeighIn 2009, Swansea drug agencies reported a 180 percent rise in heroin use. VICE follows a young homeless couple named Amy and Cornelius caught in the middle of two of South Wales's epidemics.
42010 Aug 24"Afghanistan in the U.K."Andy Capper with Jason MojicaVICE travel to STANTA to meet the 2 PARA, one of the British army's most elite and, legendarily, aggressive units.
52011 Jan 28"Teenage Riot"Andy Capper, hosted by Alex MillerRiots in London, December 2010. As MPs voted on a rise in tuition fees, thousands of students took over Parliament Square, clashing with police and setting fires.
62011 Apr 20"Royal Wedding"Hosted by Alex MillerTells the story of the peripheral figures obsessed with Prince William and Kate Middleton's upcoming marriage.
72011 Apr 25"Beautiful Liverpool"Andy Capper with Leo LeighVBS travels to Liverpool, Europe's capital of beauty. There are more gyms and tanning salons per head here than anywhere else in the UK.
82011 Sep 28"Fraud"Andy Capper with William FairmanMeet the fraudsters who are making a fortune from the fastest growing crime on Earth.
92011 Nov 28"Rose Boy and Friends"Andy Capper with Jamie Lee Curtis Taete and Billie JD PorterVBS tag along with celebrity superfans like Harvii, who claims he has had his photo taken with over 1,000 celebrities
102012 Jul 25"The VICE Guide to the Olympics"Pegah FarahmandVBS.tv met residents of the Carpenter's Estate, who have been evicted from their homes to make way for the 2012 Olympics in East London.
112012 Oct 8"The British Wrestler"Rhys JamesFrom the debris of Britain's 1970s' pantomime wrestling, the episode follows Grado, a wrestling fanboy given his own shot at stardom.
122013 Jul 16"Debt Collector"William Fairman with Rhys James and Graham JohnsonTen years before, Shaun Smith introduced urban terrorism to the British underworld. Today, he is working as a debt collector in the town of Warrington.
132013 Dec 19"Boy Racer"Rhys James with Grant ArmourVICE traverses the moonlit A-roads of Britain to embed with one of the most notorious and misunderstood youth subcultures of the last 30 years: the boy racer scene.
142014 Jul 1"Bare Knuckle"Rhys JamesClive Martin embeds with the bare knuckle boxing elite. What he discovers is not dissimilar to Fight Club; IT technicians, builders, lifestyle coaches and even a solicitor, all throwing their unprotected fists into each other's faces. It is a subculture of honour, pride and violence.
152014 Sep 2"The Moped Gangs of London"Grant ArmourDaisy-May Hudson lets a nostalgia for the moped gangs of her teenage years get the better of her and travels to industrial estates on the outskirts of London to meet with the underground stars of the UK BikeLife scene.
162014 Nov 19"Young Reoffenders"Rhys JamesVICE meets "Saky's Finest" — a gang of young reoffenders based on the Saxton Road estate in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Locked into a cycle of reoffending and going to jail, some of them have spent so much of their childhood in Young Offenders' Institutes that they would rather be back inside than in the real world.
172015 Apr 15"Shy Bairns Get Nowt"Jack CannonVICE travels to Newcastle to document the increasing number of Britons who are becoming dependent on food stamps as a consequence of austerity and benefit sanctions.
182015 Aug 17"Searching For Spitman"Marlon Rouse TavaresTeenage boys, deviant acts and cold, hard cash – Spitman was a West London council estate myth until the mobile phone footage turned up.
192015 Dec 16"Wolf of the West End"Rhys JamesIn the 1980s, "Fast Eddie" Davenport made a name for himself as the host of hedonistic parties for teenage aristocrats. By 2011, he was better known as one of Britain's richest fraudsters.

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References

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