The Fifth Estate

  • Premiered: Sep 1979
  • Episodes: 344
  • Followers: 6
  • Running
  • CBC
  • Friday at 21
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Season 37
37x1
Truth and Lies: The Last Days of Osama bin Laden
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 09, 2011
In the fifth estate's season premiere, we reveal new information that challenges the official story of the mission to shoot and kill the world's number one terrorist
37x2
Swissair 111: The Untold Story
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Air date
Sep 16, 2011
Years later, the crash of Swissair 111 in 1998 remains one of Canada's greatest tragedies. Now new disturbing information from an insider who suspected it might have been murder, raising questions about the official cause of the disaster.
37x3
Gatti-vs-Gatti
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Sep 23, 2011
It began with what was supposed to be a second honeymoon, a chance for two tempestuous people -- the world boxing champion from Montreal and his beautiful Brazilian wife -- to heal their .. show full overview
37x4
Mayday
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Sep 30, 2011
After a decade of disasters at sea, the fifth estate investigates Canada's troubled Search and Rescue fleet and hears from the survivors who lived to tell, and the insiders who tried to save what was once a organization admired around the world.
37x5
Colonel Gadhafi: Palace of Secrets
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Oct 07, 2011
Inside the brutal secret world of Moammar Gadhafi. As the Libyan dictator vows to fight on to the last bullet -- startling new information is emerging.
37x6
True Confession
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Oct 14, 2011
A family murdered, a son and his friend convicted, and the confession that could set them free.
37x7
Scout's Honour
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Oct 21, 2011
Diana Swain investigates sexual abuse in Scouts Canada.
37x8
'Til Death Do Us Part (Update)
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Oct 28, 2011
How did an experienced hunter mistake her own husband for a bear -- and shoot him dead? Although acquitted, questions still remain.
37x9
Stories from the River's Edge
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Nov 04, 2011
Every fall, hundreds of teenagers from remote aboriginal reserves in Northern Ontario fly into the city of Thunder Bay looking to get a high school diploma. But in recent years, that .. show full overview
37x10
Murder, He Wrote
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Nov 18, 2011
An aspiring filmmaker working on an all too convincing screenplay about murder, turns fiction into fact by killing for real.
37x11
A Cold Case
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Nov 25, 2011
The chilling final chapter in the fifth estate's investigation into the true life mystery of how a Canadian hockey player, missing for fourteen years, ended up frozen in a glacier crevasse in Austria.
37x12
Holiday Hell
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Dec 02, 2011
Each year millions of Canadians set off on what they hope will be the vacation of a lifetime. But what happens when things go wrong, and that fantasy trip turns into the holiday from hell?
37x13
Behind the Line
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Dec 09, 2011
An investigation into sexual harassment allegations at the RCMP. The inside story of women who signed up to serve and protect and now claim Canada's pre-eminent police force failed to protect them.
37x14
Escape From Justice
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Jan 06, 2012
'the fifth estate' unveils a new chapter in the murder of Jassi Sidhu, with startling revelations about those who planned and paid for the killing, and how the murderers got away.
37x15
Diagnosis Murder
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Jan 13, 2012
The fifth estate investigates shaken baby syndrome. For decades, the diagnosis virtually guaranteed convictions, shattering the lives of thousands of parents, babysitters and families. .. show full overview
37x16
The Lies People Tell
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Jan 20, 2012
They are pathetic, weird and sometimes dangerous; 'the fifth estate' searches for the truth behind the lies told by some of Canada's most memorable and imaginative con artists.
37x17
Who's Killing The Rizzutos?
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Jan 27, 2012
Bob McKeown presents the latest chapter in the bloody war that has decimated Canada's first family of crime.
37x18
The Wreck of the Costa Concordia
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Feb 03, 2012
A minute-by-minute reconstruction of the Italian cruise ship disaster, with first-hand accounts from the survivors and the rescuers, along with the stories of those who perished.
37x19
The House of Shafia
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Feb 10, 2012
How the four women found murdered in a Kingston canal lived as virtual prisoners in their own home.
37x20
The Lost Boys
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Feb 17, 2012
The new chapter in the explosive allegations against Scouts Canada. Are they ready to share what they know with the police?
37x21
Fearless
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Feb 24, 2012
Are they chasing extremes dreams or are we pushing them over the edge? A look at the life and death of freeskier Sarah Burke and other top athletes who seek fame and fortune and risk life and limb to compete in high performance sport.
37x22
Fast Break
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Air date
Mar 02, 2012
Canadian kids and their parents risk everything to chase NBA dreams. Bob McKeown reveals the huge money -- and the scams -- at play for those trying to break into pro basketball.
37x23
OxyContin: Time Bomb
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Air date
Mar 09, 2012
The OxyContin epidemic: a pill that promises temporary relief has cost many Canadians a lifetime of addiction. the fifth estate investigates one of the most successful marketing campaigns in pharmaceutical history.
37x24
Lost On The Ice
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Air date
Mar 23, 2012
A call for help unanswered: why did the Canadian Forces refuse to send the search and rescue helicopter that could have saved a teenaged boy lost in a Labrador blizzard?
37x25 Season finale
Kidnapped
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 06, 2012
the fifth estate recreates a real-life kidnapping minute-by-tension-filled-minute and lets viewers decide what to do to catch the perpetrators each step of the way.

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