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The Fifth Estate
For more than three decades, the fifth estate has been Canada's premier investigative documentary program, acquainting viewers with a dazzling parade of political leaders, shady characters and ordinary people whose lives were touched by triumph or tragedy. The tradition of provocative and courageous journalism which began with Adrienne Clarkson, Warner Troyer and Peter Reilly on September 16, 1975 continues unabated with our current team of Hana Gartner, Linden MacIntyre, Bob McKeown and Gillia…
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Seasons (35)
Season 5
- 1Powder Keg18 Sep 1979
- 2The Silkwood Syndrome18 Dec 1979
- 3MK Ultra11 Mar 1980
Season 6
- 1Mike Robitaille: Playing Hurt17 Feb 1981
- 2Podborski3 Mar 1981
- 3Just Another Missing Kid7 Apr 1981
Season 8
- 1Hitman27 Apr 1983
Season 9
- 1Mail Order Bride21 Feb 1984
Season 11
- 1Product of Canada17 Sep 1985
- 2Against All Odds4 Mar 1986
Season 13
- 1Judgement in Jerusalem19 Jan 1988
Season 17
- 1Mennonite Mob10 Mar 1992
- 2Westray Mine Disaster - The Last Shift28 May 1992
Season 18
- 1Crimes Against Humanity6 Oct 1992
- 2To Sell a War1 Dec 1992
Season 19
- 1Democracy Derailed26 Oct 1993
- 2The Trouble With Evan12 Apr 1994
Season 23
- 1Karla Homolka25 Nov 1997
Season 25
- 1Monsanto: Seeds of Distrust3 Nov 1999
- 2Montreal Massacre: Legacy of Pain1 Dec 1999
- 3Steven Truscott - His Word Against History29 Mar 2000
Season 30
- 1The Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney6 Oct 2004
Season 31
- 1On the Edge of Glory2 Feb 2006
Season 32
- 1Luck of the Draw25 Oct 2006
- 4The Denial Machine15 Nov 2006
- 18The Lies That Led To War1 Mar 2007
Season 33
- 1Brian Mulroney: The Unauthorized Chapter31 Oct 2007
- 2Downhill Racer7 Nov 2007
- 3Chris Benoit: Fight To The Death6 Feb 2006
Season 34
- 1Disappearing Act1 Oct 2008
- 2Inside Room 228 Oct 2008
- 3Shadows of Doubt15 Oct 2008
- 4The Girl in Saskatoon (Update)22 Oct 2008
- 5After the Storm29 Oct 2008
- 6Overboard (Update)5 Nov 2008
- 7The Gospel of Green12 Nov 2008
- 8Head Games19 Nov 2008
- 9Where the Women Went19 Nov 2008
- 10The Chess Master3 Dec 2008
- 11A Death in the Family7 Jan 2009
- 12Someone Got Away With Murder21 Jan 2009
- 13Strangers in Paradise28 Jan 2009
- 14Collateral Damage4 Feb 2009
- 15Powerless13 Feb 2009
- 16Black Widow20 Feb 2009
- 17The Code27 Feb 2009
- 18Top Gun6 Mar 2009
- 19Staying Alive13 Mar 2009
- 20The Elephant in the Room10 Apr 2009
- 21A Fight to the Death6 Feb 2008
- 22Amazing Grace13 Feb 2008
- 23Bad Day in Barrhead27 Feb 2008
- 24Life and Death in Kandahar12 Mar 2008
- 25Ambushed15 Aug 2008
- 26Cruel Camera (Update)16 Feb 2008
Season 35
- 1Riding on Risk25 Sep 2009
- 2The Education of Brian Nicholl2 Oct 2009
- 3Death Online9 Oct 2009
- 4The Fall and Rise of Theo Fleury16 Oct 2009
- 5Broken Heroes30 Oct 2009
- 6Bus 11706 Nov 2009
- 7Over the Edge13 Nov 2009
- 8The Unofficial Story27 Nov 2009
- 9Out of Control8 Jan 2010
- 10House of Cards15 Jan 2010
- 11Fasten Your Seatbelts29 Jan 2010
- 12Earl Jones: In Trust5 Feb 2010
- 1321st Century: War and Terrorism12 Feb 2010
- 1421st Century: The People19 Feb 2010
- 1521st Century: Law and Disorder26 Feb 2010
- 16The Wrong Man5 Mar 2010
- 17Cougar 49112 Mar 2010
- 18Hannah's Heart19 Mar 2010
- 19The Code26 Mar 2010
- 20Larger Than Life9 Apr 2010
Season 36
- 1Above Suspicion24 Sep 2010
- 2Betrayal1 Oct 2010
- 3'Til Death Do Us Part8 Oct 2010
- 4Enemies of the State15 Oct 2010
- 5The Confession22 Oct 2010
- 6The Fall and Rise of Theo Fleury (Update)29 Oct 2010
- 7The Life and Death of Abdinasir Dirie5 Nov 2010
- 8Behind the Wall12 Nov 2010
- 9The Girl in the Suitcase (Update)19 Nov 2010
- 10The Legacy of Brendan Burke26 Nov 2010
- 11Presumed Dead3 Dec 2010
- 12After the Earth Shook7 Jan 2011
- 13Justice for Nadia14 Jan 2011
- 14Death of the Don: Who's killing the Rizzutos?28 Jan 2011
- 15WikiRebels4 Feb 2011
- 16Death at the Olympics11 Feb 2011
- 17The Devil You Know18 Feb 2011
- 18You Should Have Stayed At Home25 Feb 2011
- 20Missing11 Mar 2011
- 21Getting Off Easy18 Mar 2011
- 22My Friend the Bank Robber25 Mar 2011
Season 37
- 1Truth and Lies: The Last Days of Osama bin Laden9 Sep 2011
- 2Swissair 111: The Untold Story16 Sep 2011
- 3Gatti-vs-Gatti23 Sep 2011
- 4Mayday30 Sep 2011
- 5Colonel Gadhafi: Palace of Secrets7 Oct 2011
- 6True Confession14 Oct 2011
- 7Scout's Honour21 Oct 2011
- 8'Til Death Do Us Part (Update)28 Oct 2011
- 9Stories from the River's Edge4 Nov 2011
- 10Murder, He Wrote18 Nov 2011
- 11A Cold Case25 Nov 2011
- 12Holiday Hell2 Dec 2011
- 13Behind the Line9 Dec 2011
- 14Escape From Justice6 Jan 2012
- 15Diagnosis Murder13 Jan 2012
- 16The Lies People Tell20 Jan 2012
- 17Who's Killing The Rizzutos?27 Jan 2012
- 18The Wreck of the Costa Concordia3 Feb 2012
- 19The House of Shafia10 Feb 2012
- 20The Lost Boys17 Feb 2012
- 21Fearless24 Feb 2012
- 22Fast Break2 Mar 2012
- 23Time Bomb9 Mar 2012
- 24Lost On The Ice23 Mar 2012
- 25Kidnapped6 Apr 2012
Season 38
- 1Into The Death Zone14 Sep 2012
- 2Kingston Pen: Secrets and Lies21 Sep 2012
- 3Runaway Fighter28 Sep 2012
- 4The Widow's Web5 Oct 2012
- 5The Life and Death of Gloria Taylor12 Oct 2012
- 6Whistleblowers: Moment of Truth19 Oct 2012
- 7Lost In The Struggle: The Next Chapter26 Oct 2012
- 8Lucky 72 Nov 2012
- 9The Elephant In The Room9 Nov 2012
- 10Left For Dead16 Nov 2012
- 11Lance Armstrong: Master of Spin23 Nov 2012
- 12Hunting Magnotta30 Nov 2012
- 13Costa Concordia: The Captain's Tale7 Dec 2012
- 14The Imperfect Spy11 Jan 2013
- 15The Last Race18 Jan 2013
- 16Death In Paradise25 Jan 2013
- 17Target Bin Laden1 Feb 2013
- 18Crossfire8 Feb 2013
- 19The Unrepentant22 Feb 2013
- 20The Vanishing1 Mar 2013
- 21Second Wave8 Mar 2013
- 22Ironman29 Mar 2013
- 23Mission Improbable5 Apr 2013
- 24Rate My Hospital12 Apr 2013
Season 39
- 1The Secrets of Sugar4 Oct 2013
- 2Made in Bangladesh11 Oct 2013
- 3The Murder and the Money Trail18 Oct 2013
- 4Elephants on Board: A Journey to Remember25 Oct 2013
- 5The Strange World of Julian Assange1 Nov 2013
- 6The Rob Ford Story8 Nov 2013
- 7The Sextortion of Amanda Todd15 Nov 2013
- 8The Conspiracy Files: JFK and 9/1122 Nov 2013
- 9The Last Great Escape29 Nov 2013
- 10Silence of the Labs10 Jan 2014
- 11The Man Who Hears Voices17 Jan 2014
- 12Walk the Line24 Jan 2014
- 13Voyage of the Black Dragon31 Jan 2014
- 14Rabbi of the Pure Hearts: Inside Lev Tahor28 Feb 2014
- 15The Rise and Fall of Mike Duffy7 Mar 2014
- 16Return to Paradise14 Mar 2014
- 17Dead Enough21 Mar 2014
- 18Your Tips, Our Stories24 Mar 2014
- 19After the Cameras Went Away11 Apr 2014
Season 40
- 1The Fear Within24 Oct 2014
- 2GM Recall : The Switch From Hell31 Oct 2014
- 3Finding Emma7 Nov 2014
- 4A Boy Named Moses14 Nov 2014
- 5The Interrogation Room21 Nov 2014
- 6The Unmaking of Jian Ghomeshi28 Nov 2014
- 7Stalking Amanda Todd : The Man in the Shadows5 Dec 2014
- 8Putin's Long Shadow9 Jan 2015
- 9Mr. Big Stings : Cops, Criminals and Confessions16 Jan 2015
- 10The Mob and Michael DeGroote23 Jan 2015
- 11Marijuana in Canada : Pot Fiction30 Jan 2015
- 12Saving David Waines6 Feb 2015
- 13After the Cameras Went Away13 Feb 2015
- 14The Mohamed Fahmy Story : 400 Days20 Feb 2015
- 15The War on Wheat27 Feb 2015
- 16Lost On The Ice6 Mar 2015
- 17The Pain Game: Drugs, Doctors and Pro Sports13 Mar 2015
- 18Murder and The Judge20 Mar 2015
- 19The Boy Who Should Have Lived27 Mar 2015
- 20In the Eye of the Storm3 Apr 2015
- 21Too Young To Lose10 Apr 2015
Season 41
- 1Canada in Iraq : The Hidden War30 Oct 2015
- 2The Fire Within: The Secret Battles of Female Firefighters6 Nov 2015
- 3Vitamins and Supplements: Magic Pills13 Nov 2015
- 4School Of Secrets23 Nov 2015
- 5Aftermath: How Paris Changed The World27 Nov 2015
- 6A Mother's Trial4 Dec 2015
- 7Nightmare In Indonesia8 Jan 2016
- 8Why Didn't We Know?15 Jan 2016
- 9Doctors Without Boundaries22 Jan 2016
- 10After the Cameras Went Away29 Jan 2016
- 11Dealing With a Dictator12 Feb 2016
- 12Murder in the Family19 Feb 2016
- 13True Believers4 Mar 2016
- 14The Fire Breather: The Rise and Rage of Donald Trump11 Mar 2016
- 15In Their Own Words18 Mar 2016
- 16The Trial of Jian Ghomeshi25 Mar 2016
- 17Stolen Treasures8 Apr 2016
Season 42
- 1The Torture Files23 Sep 2016
- 2E-Cigarettes : Welcome Back, Big Tobacco21 Oct 2016
- 3Saved at Sea28 Oct 2016
- 4Police Shootings: Caught on Camera4 Nov 2016
- 5Death In Thunder Bay : No Foul Play11 Nov 2016
- 6Who Killed Jane Doe #5918 Nov 2016
- 7Quebec Stock Frauds : Dan and Carol Get Busted25 Nov 2016
- 8The Murder of Tim Bosma : The Devil Had a Name2 Dec 2016
- 9The Pour: Treating Alcoholics with Wine6 Jan 2016
- 10Canada's Drug Problem13 Jan 2017
- 11Putin, the FBI, and Donald Trump20 Jan 2017
- 12Murder in the Family27 Jan 2017
- 13Under Attack3 Feb 2017
- 14The Hunter and the Hunted10 Feb 2017
- 15Betrayal of Trust17 Feb 2017
- 16The Mennonite Connection24 Feb 2017
- 17The Untouchables3 Mar 2017
- 18Black Lives Matter: The Disruptors10 Mar 2017
- 19After The Crossing: Refugees in Canada17 Mar 2017
- 20The Unravelling of Nurse Wettlaufer24 Mar 2017
- 21Cross Lake: This Is Where I Live7 Apr 2017
Season 43
- 1Murder in Cottage Country15 Sep 2017
- 2Pit Bulls Unleashed: Should They Be Banned?22 Sep 2017
- 3The Truth Smugglers29 Sep 2017
- 4Jagmeet Singh: The Colour of Politics13 Oct 2017
- 5Tainted Tests: Broken Families20 Oct 2017
- 6Terror Plot In Canada: The Inside Man20 Oct 2017
- 7The Money Pipeline3 Nov 2017
- 8The Super Scalpers10 Nov 2017
- 9The Murder of a President17 Nov 2017
- 10Circle of Fear: Basil Borutski and the Renfrew County Murders24 Nov 2017
- 11Death Behind Bars1 Dec 2017
- 12Gambling on Addiction8 Dec 2017
- 13Brainwashed : The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada15 Dec 2017
- 14The Murders of Dellen Millard12 Jan 2018
- 15Pulling Back The Curtain19 Jan 2018
- 16Driving High26 Jan 2018
- 17The Mystery of the Sherman Murders2 Feb 2018
- 18The Hostage Family2 Mar 2018
- 19The Costco Kickbacks16 Mar 2018
- 20Murder in the Village6 Apr 2018
Season 44
- 1Unbuckled: School Bus Safety | Finding Jennifer14 Oct 2018
- 2The Trouble with Uber | Finding Jennifer: The Investigation21 Oct 2018
- 3Murder in the Jungle | Muslim Adoption Ban28 Oct 2018
- 4Unnecessary Risk | Driving High4 Nov 2018
- 5Church of Secrets | Banking on Cord Blood11 Nov 2018
- 6The Deepfake | The War Over Truth | The Lie Detectors18 Nov 2018
- 7Unreported: The Essure Story | High Impact: Action on Safer School Buses25 Nov 2018
- 8Kickbacks: Caught on Camera | Polygamy In Canada: An Open Secret2 Dec 2018
- 9Dump Trump | A Brother's Story9 Dec 2018
- 10The Lone Wolf | Ghost Immigrants16 Dec 2018
- 11Justice for Jassi | The Children of Sainte-Justine6 Jan 2019
- 12Reconciliation Betrayed: The Horrors of St. Anne's | The Defectors17 Feb 2019
- 13Officer Down; The Collector: Still a Mystery10 Mar 2019
- 14The Soldier and the Survivor | Murder on Cortes Island24 Mar 2019
- 15Dead End: An Investigation Gone Wrong | Waiting For Justice: The Oland Murder7 Apr 2019
Season 45
- 1Targeted: Inside the Gun Lobby's Fight to Save Weapons in Canada22 Sep 2019
- 2Is Murder in Your DNA?29 Sep 2019
- 3When Terror Comes Home29 Sep 2019
- 4The Forgotten: The Girls of Marian Hall speak6 Oct 2019
- 5Havana Syndrome: Investigating what made the diplomats sick6 Oct 2019
- 6The hood: Cops, gangs and a community in the crossfire13 Oct 2019
- 7Dear Mr. Bissonnette20 Oct 2019
- 8My father's killer: Murder mystery on Cortes Island27 Oct 2019
- 9Wronged (Ashley Smith)27 Oct 2019
- 10Muskoka murders: Closing in on the killers3 Nov 2019
- 11Captive: Caitlan Coleman vs. Joshua Boyle10 Nov 2019
- 12The list: Unravelling church secrets17 Nov 2019
- 13Vintage Grapes: Revisiting a famous Don Cherry interview17 Nov 2017
- 14Hockey fight: Wives reveal the cost of concussions24 Nov 2019
- 15Sexism in science: The woman who pioneered giraffe research24 Nov 2019
- 16Passport babies: The growing shadow industry of birth tourism5 Jan 2020
- 17Confronting hate: How Antifa is tracking the extreme right5 Jan 2020
- 18The autopsy (part 1): What if justice got it wrong?12 Jan 2020
- 19The insider: Tales from inside Benny Hinn Ministries12 Jan 2020
- 20The autopsy (part 2): What did justice cover up?19 Jan 2020
- 21How Boeing crashed: The inside story of the 737 Max19 Jan 2020
- 22Runaway train: Investigating a fatal CP Rail crash26 Jan 2020
- 23Who are they? Reconstructing faces of the dead26 Jan 2020
- 24The priest's confession: What the Catholic bishops knew16 Feb 2020
- 25John Connelly's death: A family fights for answers16 Feb 2020
Season 46
- 1Thirteen Deadly Hours: The Nova Scotia Shooting23 Nov 2020
- 2Bitter Harvest: The story of the pandemic and the people who pick our food30 Nov 2020
- 3The Smartest Guy in the Room: Cameron Ortis and the RCMP Secrets Scandal7 Dec 2020
- 4Nygard: The Secret Videos28 Jan 2021
- 5The Price WE Paid4 Feb 2021
- 6Policing the police11 Feb 2021
- 7Exposed: Sexism Within Ottawa Police / Fatal Care18 Feb 2021
- 8The Missing Millions | Black on Campus25 Feb 2021
- 9Treatment or Torture | No More Tears: The Essure Legacy4 Mar 2021
- 10When Police Don't Knock | Broken Honour11 Mar 2021
- 11Gene Hunters | Recipe for Genius18 Mar 2021
Season 47
- 1The Vaccine14 Oct 2021
- 2Amazon Unpacked: The Human Cost of Convenience21 Oct 2021
- 3Abandoned in Afghanistan: Canada's Failed Promise28 Oct 2021
- 4The Cluster: New Brunswick's Mysterious Illness31 Oct 2021
- 5School of Secrets: The Church, the cult and the consequences11 Nov 2021
- 6Finding School No 4 - WE Charity Donor Deception in Kenya18 Nov 2021
- 7Come Hell... BC Under Water25 Nov 2021
- 8Why Not In Winnipeg?2 Dec 2021
- 9Base of Hate: Inside Accelerationism9 Dec 2021
- 10The Reckoning: Secrets Unearthed by Tk'emlups te Secwepemc13 Jan 2022
- 11School of Secrets: New Revelations from Inside the Cult20 Jan 2022
- 12The Convoy and the Questions: How a Protest Paralyzed a Capital24 Feb 2022
- 13Parents Without Power: When Addicted Kids Can't Be Forced Into Care5 Mar 2022
- 14Priced Out: Canada's Rental Crisis21 Apr 2022
- 15Bait and Switch: Recycling's Dirty Secret21 Apr 2022
Season 48
- 1Anatomy of a Scandal29 Sep 2022
- 2The Big Burn6 Oct 2022
- 3Sold a Lie13 Oct 2022
- 4Death at the Border20 Oct 2022
- 5The Mormons' Books27 Oct 2022
- 6Investigating War Crimes in Ukraine3 Nov 2022
- 7Hunting the Hacker of Gatineau10 Nov 2022
- 8The Trump Files24 Nov 2022
- 9Cold Case Ghost1 Dec 2022
- 10The Dissidents5 Jan 2023
- 11The Gamblification of Canada12 Jan 2023
- 12A Complicated Death19 Jan 2023
- 13The Girls Around Robert G. Miller2 Feb 2023
- 14Anatomy of a Scandal 29 Feb 2023
Season 49
- 1Lessons Not Learned20 Oct 2023
- 2Making an Icon22 Oct 2023
- 3Whose Police?3 Nov 2023
- 4The Assassin Next Door17 Nov 2023
- 5Swindling the System24 Nov 2023
- 6Surviving the Circle1 Dec 2023
- 7Search for the Smugglers26 Jan 2024
- 8Made in Bangladesh: 10 Years Later2 Feb 2024
- 9When the dark web crosses over9 Feb 2024
- 10Boiling Point: Climate Chaos16 Feb 2024
- 11Who's minding the store?23 Feb 2024
- 12Contract to Kill8 Mar 2024
- 13Rotten Promises15 Mar 2024
- 1496 Hours29 Mar 2024
Season 50
- 1Dawson Creek: We want our town back11 Oct 2024
- 2Road to Ruin18 Oct 2024
- 3Stronach: Power and Silence25 Oct 2024
- 4The Election and the War1 Nov 2024
- 5Conspiracy in Coutts15 Nov 2024
- 6Cracked: Crimes Behind Encryption22 Nov 2024
- 7The Fifth Estate: 50 Years of Truth29 Nov 2024
- 8The Fifth Estate: The Next 50 Years of Investigative Journalism6 Dec 2024
- 9Pet Care Inc24 Jan 2025
- 10The Shadow War on Libraries7 Feb 2025
- 11Inside job: Airport gold heist14 Feb 2025
- 12The Second Term: Project 202528 Feb 2025
- 13Tax Hack: Identity Theft7 Mar 2025
- 14A Sister's Promise14 Mar 2025
- 15Trapped: The Online Terror Network21 Mar 2025
Season 51
- 1The Denial Machine10 Oct 2025
- 2Funding the Occupation17 Oct 2025
- 3Dying to Recover24 Oct 2025
- 4Dawson Creek: Behind the Fear31 Oct 2025
- 5The War on Safe Drugs14 Nov 2025
- 6Smash & Grab21 Nov 2025
- 7Trapped on the Water28 Nov 2025
- 8Vanished16 Jan 2026
- 9Missing Black Boys23 Jan 2026
- 10Canada's Crypto Fugitive30 Jan 2026
- 11Sign in Last Breath27 Feb 2026
- 12The Business of Bigotry?20 Mar 2026
- 13Critical Threat27 Mar 2026
- 14The Dissident & The Spy3 Apr 2026
- 15The Ostrich Con10 Apr 2026
- 16Corruption, Crime & Cricket Canada17 Apr 2026