Season 1

Ware’s first stop takes him to Papua New Guinea, an island nation clawing its way into the modern world but dragging with it ancient traditions of witchcraft and sorcery. Ware is here to investigate one of the country’s storied and highly controversial practices: Women who are thought to be witches are hunted and killed.

New York Fashion Week emanates celebrity, glamour and style. Former war correspondent, Michael Ware travels deep into the heart of New York City during Fashion Week as the city pulses with pageantry, runway shows, models, celebrities and chic elite. Ware tries to find meaning in the enigmatic fashion world.

Ware gains insider access to the Iranian dissident group the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MeK). Their goal is to overrun Iran. Teenagers flock to join – to drive tanks, to learn infantry skills, to fight and to die. Ware travels to see the female fighters whom he previously interviewed and finds out where they are now, what has become of them and whether any of them are still alive.

King Mswati is the last remaining absolute monarch of Africa, ruling over the entire Kingdom of Swaziland. The western media portrays Swaziland as a struggling nation, its population suffering beneath the rule of a self-absorbed playboy king. But is there truth behind these headlines? Ware journeys deep into the monarchy to find out what it’s like to be one of the world’s last true kings.

In embattled rebel-held eastern Ukraine, Michael embeds himself with The Night Wolves, a Kremlin-backed biker gang who have a direct line to Putin and a penchant for pyrotechnics. Ware learns about The Night Wolves’ mission on the frontline and seeks their leader, “The Surgeon,” in Moscow.

In recent months images of a “new” Cuba have been broadcast — an island peppered with bright red 1950s Chevys parked along picturesque cobblestone streets, bluest of blue oceans and people dancing in the streets, all of this amid a joyous geopolitical and diplomatic air of rapture as the United States historically embraces Castro’s Cuba. But is this Cuba we see in photos the real Cuba?