The Fifth Estate
NR
7.7
1976
Documentary
, News
Each week the fifth estate brings in-depth investigations that matter to Canadians – delivering a dazzling parade of political leaders, controversial characters and ordinary people whose lives were touched by triumph or tragedy.
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Episode 25 : Kidnapped
April. 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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Episode 24 : Lost on the Ice
March. 23,2012
A boy lost on the ice, and how Canada's Search and Rescue service failed to bring him home.
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Episode 23 : Time Bomb
March. 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.
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Episode 22 : Fast Break
March. 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.
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Episode 21 : Fearless
February. 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.
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Episode 20 : The Lost Boys
February. 17,2012
The new chapter in the explosive allegations against Scouts Canada.
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Episode 19 : The House of Shafia
February. 10,2012
How the four women found murdered in a Kingston canal lived as virtual prisoners in their own home.
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Episode 18 : The Wreck of the Costa Concordia
February. 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.
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Episode 17 : Who's Killing The Rizzutos?
January. 27,2012
Bob McKeown presents the latest chapter in the bloody war that has decimated Canada's first family of crime.
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Episode 16 : The Lies People Tell
January. 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.
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Episode 15 : Diagnosis Murder
January. 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. Now new evidence questions whether the syndrome even exists and whether some of those convictions may have been wrong.
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Episode 14 : Escape From Justice
January. 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.
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Episode 13 : Behind the Line
December. 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.
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Episode 12 : Holiday Hell
December. 02,2011
Each year millions of Canadians set off on what they hope will be the vacation of a lifetime.
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Episode 11 : A Cold Case
November. 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.
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Episode 10 : Murder, He Wrote
November. 18,2011
An aspiring filmmaker working on an all too convincing screenplay about murder, turns fiction into fact by killing for real.
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Episode 9 : Stories from the River's Edge
November. 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 struggle has been tainted by tragedy. Seven of those students have died sudden and unexpected deaths.
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Episode 8 : 'Til Death Do Us Part (Update)
October. 28,2011
How did an experienced hunter mistake her own husband for a bear -- and shoot him dead? Although acquitted, questions still remain.
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Episode 7 : Scout's Honour
October. 21,2011
Diana Swain investigates sexual abuse in Scouts Canada.
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Episode 6 : True Confession
October. 14,2011
A family murdered, a son and his friend convicted, and the confession that could set them free.
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Episode 5 : Colonel Gadhafi: Palace of Secrets
October. 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.
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Episode 4 : Mayday
September. 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.
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Episode 3 : Gatti-vs-Gatti
September. 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 troubled marriage. It ended in Brazil with one of them dead and a question.
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Episode 2 : Swissair 111: The Untold Story
September. 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.
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Episode 1 : Truth and Lies: The Last Days of Osama Bin Laden
September. 09,2011
The fifth estate reveals new information that challenges the official story of the mission to shoot and kill the world's number one terrorist.
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