The Fifth Estate - Season 37

First aired: 9/9/2011 25 episodes
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Episodes

1. Truth and Lies: The Last Days of Osama Bin Laden

Aired: 9/9/2011

The fifth estate reveals new information that challenges the official story of the mission to shoot and kill the world's number one terrorist.

2. Swissair 111: The Untold Story

Aired: 9/16/2011

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.

3. Gatti-vs-Gatti

Aired: 9/23/2011

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.

4. Mayday

Aired: 9/30/2011

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.

5. Colonel Gadhafi: Palace of Secrets

Aired: 10/7/2011

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.

6. True Confession

Aired: 10/14/2011

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

7. Scout's Honour

Aired: 10/21/2011

Diana Swain investigates sexual abuse in Scouts Canada.

8. 'Til Death Do Us Part (Update)

Aired: 10/28/2011

How did an experienced hunter mistake her own husband for a bear -- and shoot him dead? Although acquitted, questions still remain.

9. Stories from the River's Edge

Aired: 11/4/2011

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.

10. Murder, He Wrote

Aired: 11/18/2011

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

11. A Cold Case

Aired: 11/25/2011

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.

12. Holiday Hell

Aired: 12/2/2011

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

13. Behind the Line

Aired: 12/9/2011

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.

14. Escape From Justice

Aired: 1/6/2012

'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.

15. Diagnosis Murder

Aired: 1/13/2012

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.

16. The Lies People Tell

Aired: 1/20/2012

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.

17. Who's Killing The Rizzutos?

Aired: 1/27/2012

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

18. The Wreck of the Costa Concordia

Aired: 2/3/2012

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.

19. The House of Shafia

Aired: 2/10/2012

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

20. The Lost Boys

Aired: 2/17/2012

The new chapter in the explosive allegations against Scouts Canada.

21. Fearless

Aired: 2/24/2012

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.

22. Fast Break

Aired: 3/2/2012

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.

23. Time Bomb

Aired: 3/9/2012

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.

24. Lost on the Ice

Aired: 3/23/2012

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

25. Kidnapped

Aired: 4/6/2012

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.