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The Fifth Estate
Title card since 2017
Genre	Investigative documentary
Starring	Bob McKeown Mark Kelley Steven D'Souza
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	47
Production
Executive producer	Diana Swain
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Original release
Network	CBC Television CBC News Network
Release	September 15, 1975 (1975-09-15) – present

The Fifth Estate is an English-language Canadian investigative documentary series that airs on the national CBC Television network.

The name is a reference to the term "Fourth Estate", and was chosen to highlight the program's determination to go beyond everyday news into original journalism. The program has been on the air since 16 September 1975,^[1] and its primary focus is on investigative journalism. The show was launched in 1975 by Ron Haggart.^[2] It has engaged in co-productions with the BBC, The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and often with the PBS program Frontline.

The Fifth Estate is one of two television programs (with The Twilight Zone being the first) to win an Academy Award, a prize presented to theatrical films: Just Another Missing Kid, originally a The Fifth Estate episode, was released in theatres in the United States and won the 1982 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

Journalists

Journalists associated with the show, past and present, include:

Episodes

News reports aired on The Fifth Estate have included investigations into and reports about:

Season 34 (2008–09)

The 2008–09 television season was the 34th season of The Fifth Estate.

Episode	Title	Original air date[5]	Subject
1	Disappearing Act		Interview with David Reiner, a bookkeeper who turned fugitive after stealing nearly a million dollars from nonprofit day-care centres.
2	Inside Room 222
3	Shadows of Doubt		The death of Royal Military College cadet Joe Grozelle, whose disappearance in October 2003 launched a Canadian Forces National Investigation Service search.
4	The Girl in Saskatoon (Update)		A follow-up on the unsolved murder of Alexandra Wiwcharuk, a former beauty queen in Saskatoon.
5	After the Storm		The 2007 murder of filmmaker Helen Hill in New Orleans.
6	Overboard (Update)		An update on the case of Laura Gainey, who was swept overboard while sailing on the Picton Castle in December 2006.
7	The Gospel of Green		The efforts of German parliamentarian Hermann Scheer to increase his country's reliance on renewable-energy sources.
8	Head Games		The short life expectancy of professional football players in Canada.
9	Where the Women Went
10	The Chess Master
11	A Death in the Family		The case of Bill Mullins-Johnson, who served 12 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of his 6-year-old niece.
12	Someone Got Away With Murder[6]	January 21, 2009	Double murder of Andrea Scherpf and Bernd Göricke
13	Strangers in Paradise
14	Collateral Damage		Two men who were implicated in the 2005 shootings of four RCMP officers in Mayerthorpe, Alberta.
15	Powerless
16	Black Widow
17	The Code		Hockey's "unwritten law" about fighting.
18	Top Gun		The potential dangers of video-game obsession.
19	Staying Alive
20	The Elephant in the Room		The Airbus affair and Karlheinz Schreiber's dealings.
21	A Fight to the Death
22	Amazing Grace
23	Bad Day in Barrhead
24	Life & Death in Kandahar		The war in Afghanistan through the eyes of the medical professionals serving at Canada's trauma centre at the Kandahar Air Base.

Season 36 (2010–11)

The 2010–11 television season was the 36th season of The Fifth Estate.^[7]

Episode	Title	Original air date
1	Enemies of the State	October 15, 2010
2	The Confession	October 22, 2010
3	The Fall and Rise of Theo Fleury	October 29, 2010
4	The Life and Death of Abdinasir Dirie	November 5, 2010
5	Behind the Wall	November 12, 2010
6	The Girl in the Suitcase	November 19, 2010
7	The Legacy of Brendan Burke	November 26, 2010
8	Presumed Dead	December 3, 2010
9	After the Earth Shook	January 7, 2011
10	Justice for Nadia	January 14, 2011
11	Death of the Don	January 28, 2011
12	WikiRebels	February 4, 2011
13	Death at the Olympics	February 11, 2011
14	The Devil You Know	February 18, 2011
15	You Should Have Stayed At Home	February 25, 2011
16	Missing	March 11, 2011
17	Getting Off Easy	March 18, 2011
18	My Friend the Bank Robber	March 25, 2011
19	A Question of Innocence	April 1, 2011

Season 37 (2011–12)

The 2011–12 television season was the 37th season^[8] of The Fifth Estate.

Episode	Title	Original air date	CBC viewers
1	Truth and Lies: The Last Days of Osama bin Laden	September 9, 2011	599,000
2	Swissair 111: The Untold Story	September 16, 2011	775,000
3	Gatti-vs-Gatti	September 23, 2011	436,000
4	Mayday	September 30, 2011	482,000
5	Colonel Gadhafi: Palace of Secrets	October 7, 2011	577,000
6	True Confession	October 14, 2011	504,000
7	Scout's Honour	October 21, 2011	567,000
8	'Til Death Do Us Part	October 28, 2011	482,000
9	Stories from the River's Edge	November 4, 2011	509,000
10	Murder, he wrote	November 18, 2011	535,000
11	A Cold Case	November 25, 2011	612,000
12	Holiday Hell	December 2, 2011	722,000
13	Behind the Line	December 9, 2011	568,000
14	Escape From Justice	January 6, 2012	853,000
15	Diagnosis Murder	January 13, 2012	646,000
16	The Lies People Tell	January 20, 2012	752,000
17	Who's Killing the Rizzutos?	January 27, 2012	622,000
18	The Wreck of the Costa Concordia	February 3, 2012	1,317,000
19	The House of Shafia	February 10, 2012	470,000
20	The Lost Boys	February 17, 2012	565,000
21	Fearless	February 24, 2012	298,000
22	Fast Break	March 2, 2012	203,000
23	Time Bomb	March 9, 2012	895,000
24	Lost on the Ice	March 23, 2012	300,400
25	Kidnapped	April 6, 2012	1,200,000

Season 38 (2012–13)

The 2012–13 television season was the 38th season^[9] of The Fifth Estate.

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