The Fifth Estate

Season 37

25 episodes · Sep 9, 2011

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  • S37E1

    Truth and Lies: The Last Days of Osama Bin Laden

    Sep 9, 201160m

    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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  • S37E2

    Swissair 111: The Untold Story

    Sep 16, 201160m

    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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  • S37E3

    Gatti-vs-Gatti

    Sep 23, 201160m

    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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  • S37E4

    Mayday

    Sep 30, 201160m

    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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  • S37E5

    Colonel Gadhafi: Palace of Secrets

    Oct 7, 201160m

    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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  • S37E6

    True Confession

    Oct 14, 201160m

    A family murdered, a son and his friend convicted, and the confession that could set them free.

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  • S37E7

    Scout's Honour

    Oct 21, 201160m

    Diana Swain investigates sexual abuse in Scouts Canada.

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  • S37E8

    'Til Death Do Us Part (Update)

    Oct 28, 201160m

    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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  • S37E9

    Stories from the River's Edge

    Nov 4, 201160m

    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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  • S37E10

    Murder, He Wrote

    Nov 18, 201160m

    An aspiring filmmaker working on an all too convincing screenplay about murder, turns fiction into fact by killing for real.

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  • S37E11

    A Cold Case

    Nov 25, 201160m

    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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  • S37E12

    Holiday Hell

    Dec 2, 201160m

    Each year millions of Canadians set off on what they hope will be the vacation of a lifetime.

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  • S37E13

    Behind the Line

    Dec 9, 201160m

    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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  • S37E14

    Escape From Justice

    Jan 6, 201260m

    '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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  • S37E15

    Diagnosis Murder

    Jan 13, 201260m

    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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  • S37E16

    The Lies People Tell

    Jan 20, 201260m

    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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  • S37E17

    Who's Killing The Rizzutos?

    Jan 27, 201260m

    Bob McKeown presents the latest chapter in the bloody war that has decimated Canada's first family of crime.

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  • S37E18

    The Wreck of the Costa Concordia

    Feb 3, 201260m

    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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  • S37E19

    The House of Shafia

    Feb 10, 201260m

    How the four women found murdered in a Kingston canal lived as virtual prisoners in their own home.

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  • S37E20

    The Lost Boys

    Feb 17, 201260m

    The new chapter in the explosive allegations against Scouts Canada.

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  • S37E21

    Fearless

    Feb 24, 201260m

    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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  • S37E22

    Fast Break

    Mar 2, 201260m

    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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  • S37E23

    Time Bomb

    Mar 9, 201260m

    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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  • S37E24

    Lost on the Ice

    Mar 23, 201260m

    A boy lost on the ice, and how Canada's Search and Rescue service failed to bring him home.

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  • S37E25

    Kidnapped

    Apr 6, 201260m

    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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