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The Best Episodes of Four Corners Season 50

Every episode of Four Corners Season 50 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Four Corners Season 50!

The Best Episodes of Four Corners Season 50

Four Corners is Australia's longest-running investigative journalism/current affairs television program. Broadcast on ABC1 in Australia, it premiered on 19 August 1961 and celebrated its 60th...

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  1. 7.0/10(10 votes)

    #1 - Scientology: The Ex-Files

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    Former members of the Church give a chilling portrait of life inside the organisation.

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    #2 - A Good Death

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    Four Corners follows four brave Australians as they come to the end of their lives, and the people determined to give them a good death.

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    #3 - Breaking Point

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    Will Australia's flawed disability support system be reformed in time to save the families now at breaking point?

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    #4 - The Warlord's Tune

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    S50:E3

    A harrowing documentary that tells how thousands of young boys in Afghanistan are now being hunted and groomed to become sex slaves.

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    #5 - The State of Play

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    S50:E4

    The inside story of the battle to control Australian tennis.

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    #6 - The Authentic Mr Abbott

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    A revealing profile of the man who wants to be the next Prime Minister of Australia.

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    #7 - Mexico's Drug Wars

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    S50:E7

    A horrifying account of the brutal war that's raging in the towns that dot the border between Mexico and the United States.

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    #8 - Gypsy Child Thieves

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    The harrowing story of the children who are forced into a life of crime on the streets in order to survive.

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    #9 - Over the Edge

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    The harrowing story of the therapist whose work led some patients to believe they'd committed or been the victim of shocking sexual crimes.

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    #10 - A Dirty Business

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    How the people of a once picturesque valley found themselves surrounded by coalmines, dust and toxic chemicals, while the State Government ignores their pleas for help.

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    #11 - Chinese Whispers

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    Four Corners looks at events surrounding the arrest of mining executive Stern Hu and the tensions now involved in doing business with China.

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    #12 - A Lethal Miscalculation

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    The story behind the Federal Government's multi-billion dollar home insulation scheme debacle.

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    #13 - Chocolate: The Bitter Truth

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    An undercover investigation, spanning three continents, that exposes the way children are trafficked and used to produce the raw materials that drive a multi-billion dollar industry.

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    #14 - Access Denied

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    Quentin McDermott looks at the potential impact of the Government’s mandatory filtering system.

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    #15 - In a Strange Land

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    The story of a young woman's confronting journey back to the war-ravaged country of her birth.

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    #16 - Dirty Money

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    In this joint investigation with The Age newspaper, Four Corners reveals how the central pillar of Australia's financial system, the Reserve Bank, became ensnared in an international bribery scandal.

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    #17 - South Africa's Lost Innocence

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    South Africa has the highest incidence of rape in the world, and almost half the victims are children.

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    #18 - What's Yours Is Mine

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    How the government's attempt to introduce a resource super profits tax began a war with mine bosses, split the business community and may yet derail Labor's attempt to win the next Federal election.

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    #19 - One Shitty Deal

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    A story that reveals how a toxic cocktail of investment packages helped poison the retirement funds of hundreds of Australians.

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    #20 - Rush to Riches

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    S50:E20

    How an attempt to negotiate a deal to create a state of the art resources development turned sour, pitting Indigenous people against each other and some of them against the State Government.

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    #21 - Dancing with the Devil

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    This story documents the intersecting lives of three men - a cop, a drug dealer and a preacher - as they struggle to survive on the backstreets of Rio de Janeiro.

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    #22 - A Careful War - Part 1

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    Chris Masters delivers the first of two ground level reports giving a soldier's-eye view of the bloody war being waged against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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    #23 - A Careful War - Part 2

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    The story of Australian troops as they head into unchartered territory, trying to win the faith and trust of a brutalised people in conflict-torn Afghanistan.

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    #24 - A Dog Act

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    A forensic investigation of the killing of Kwementyaye Ryder by five white, local youths from Alice Springs.

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    #25 - Heart of Darkness

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    S50:E25

    The story of a young woman's search to understand the shocking conflict that has laid waste the country where she was born.

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Season 50 Ratings Summary

"Scientology: The Ex-Files" is the best rated episode of "Four Corners" season 50. It scored 7/10 based on 10 votes. Directed by Quentin McDermott and written by N/A, it aired on 3/8/2010. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "A Good Death".