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The Best Episodes of Four Corners Season 53

Every episode of Four Corners Season 53 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Four Corners Season 53!

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Season 53 Ratings Summary

"Lance and the Truth" is the best rated episode of "Four Corners" season 53. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/4/2013. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "America's Broken Dreams".

  • Lance and the Truth
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    #1 - Lance and the Truth

    Season 53 Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/2013

    He's a drug cheat, a bully and a liar who abused his best friends to keep a terrible secret, but has Lance Armstrong finally told the truth? The answer - almost certainly - is no.

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  • America's Broken Dreams
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    #2 - America's Broken Dreams

    Season 53 Episode 2 - Aired 2/11/2013

    It may be the wealthiest country in the world but as documentary maker Philippe Levasseur shows in America's Broken Dreams, when you lose your job in the US there is very little to protect you. In 2008 the global financial crisis hit the poor first, but now America's middle class is being devastated.

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  • Reach For The Sky
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    #3 - Reach For The Sky

    Season 53 Episode 3 - Aired 2/18/2013

    It's been called the smartest fighter plane on the planet but it is way over budget and still not delivered. Can the F.35 live up to the hype, or is the project set ot crash and burn?

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  • Punch Drunk
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    #4 - Punch Drunk

    Season 53 Episode 4 - Aired 2/25/2013

    Australians love a drink, and some see no problem at all with drinking to excess. But now doctors, police and paramedics have called 'time', warning that alcohol-fuelled violence has reached crisis levels.

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  • A Betrayal of Trust
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    #5 - A Betrayal of Trust

    Season 53 Episode 5 - Aired 3/4/2013

    With Australia's population ageing, governments have made it very clear, you had better save and plan for your own retirement. But how can you be sure your money is in safe hands...

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  • The Enemy Within
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    #6 - The Enemy Within

    Season 53 Episode 6 - Aired 3/11/2013

    How did a Lebanese immigrant move from owning an ethnic newspaper business to become the most influential politician in the State...

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  • The Untouchables
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    #7 - The Untouchables

    Season 53 Episode 7 - Aired 3/18/2013

    This PBS-Frontline investigation asks why the US Department of Justice has failed to act on credible evidence that Wall Street deliberately packaged toxic loans and sold them to investors.

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  • Mission Accomplished?
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    #8 - Mission Accomplished?

    Season 53 Episode 8 - Aired 3/25/2013

    The plan for Afghanistan was a robust democracy overseen by a well-trained army and police. But do the new security forces really have their hearts in the job?

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  • Gas Leak!
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    #9 - Gas Leak!

    Season 53 Episode 9 - Aired 4/1/2013

    The coal seam gas industry promotes itself as a cleaner carbon-fuel alternative; but how do we know this is true? Until now much of the information used to back this claim has come from the industry itself. Four Corners reveals what really happened when two major companies applied to develop thousands of square kilometres of southern Queensland for coal seam gas.

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  • A Gracious Gift
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    #10 - A Gracious Gift

    Season 53 Episode 10 - Aired 4/8/2013

    This is a story Australians think they know: the gift of a donated organ that transforms the life of someone with a devastating illness. What we see here for the first time is the extraordinary journey families undergo whose loved ones are dying in hospital from a sudden, unexpected event.

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  • The Spies Who Fooled the World
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    #11 - The Spies Who Fooled the World

    Season 53 Episode 11 - Aired 4/15/2013

    How the West was duped by informants who claimed Saddam Hussein had WMD and how this phony intelligence was used to justify the invasion of Iraq.

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  • Who's Cheating Whom?
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    #12 - Who's Cheating Whom?

    Season 53 Episode 12 - Aired 4/22/2013

    Australians like to think their sports stars play fair but now it's alleged there's widespread drug taking and links with organised crime.

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  • No Advantage
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    #13 - No Advantage

    Season 53 Episode 13 - Aired 4/29/2013

    We go inside Australia's offshore refugee processing centres on Nauru and Manus Island. What you see will shock you. Protests, evidence of self-harm and testimony of suicide attempts.

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  • The Surf Club
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    #14 - The Surf Club

    Season 53 Episode 14 - Aired 5/6/2013

    The surf life saving movement is Australia's biggest volunteer organisation and it saves thousands of lives each year. But right now Surf Life Saving Australia is at a crossroads... Wendy Carlisle investigates.

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  • Raising Adam Lanza
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    #15 - Raising Adam Lanza

    Season 53 Episode 15 - Aired 5/13/2013

    An unflinching profile of the young man responsible for one of America's worst school massacres. Who was Adam Lanza - and what led him to kill 27 people at Sandy Hook Elementary school last year?

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  • The Big Gamble
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    #16 - The Big Gamble

    Season 53 Episode 16 - Aired 5/20/2013

    We take a revealing look at the world of sports betting and the man who's made himself the face of the industry - Tom Waterhouse.

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  • Hacked!
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    #17 - Hacked!

    Season 53 Episode 17 - Aired 5/27/2013

    Andrew Fowler reveals that hackers, working from locations overseas, have targeted key Federal Government departments and major corporations in Australia.

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  • The Hunt For Britain's Sex Gangs
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    #18 - The Hunt For Britain's Sex Gangs

    Season 53 Episode 18 - Aired 6/3/2013

    It was the police investigation that stunned Britain. Young men of Pakistani heritage grooming young girls with the intention of abusing them, gang raping them and then trading them with other groups of men. How could it happen in modern Britain?

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  • The Hunting Party
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    #19 - The Hunting Party

    Season 53 Episode 19 - Aired 6/10/2013

    Hunting wild animals is a growth industry and now the pressure is on to get access to national parks. Who really benefits and who is at risk?

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  • Escaping North Korea
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    #20 - Escaping North Korea

    Season 53 Episode 20 - Aired 6/13/2013

    Two North Korean defectors are smuggled across borders by a human smuggler who promises them a safe escape. Will they survive the perilous 5,000 km journey to freedom?

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  • Fashion Victims
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    #21 - Fashion Victims

    Season 53 Episode 21 - Aired 6/25/2013

    Australians love a bargain, but what's the real cost of cheap clothes from the sweat shops in Bangladesh? On 24th April this year more than a thousand people were killed when an eight storey building collapsed in the heart of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka.

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  • On the Brink
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    #22 - On the Brink

    Season 53 Episode 22 - Aired 7/1/2013

    Could you live on 35 dollars a day and pay for food, clothing, transport and other bills? That's what single unemployed people are entitled to on the Newstart allowance.

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  • To the Bitter End
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    #23 - To the Bitter End

    Season 53 Episode 23 - Aired 7/8/2013

    Reporter Marian Wilkinson tells the turbulent story of Labor's bitter leadership struggle, the dramatic day that ended the term of Australia's first female Prime Minister and Labor's renewed ambition to win the next election.

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  • Manhunt: The Boston Bombers
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    #24 - Manhunt: The Boston Bombers

    Season 53 Episode 24 - Aired 7/15/2013

    Next on Four Corners, PBS' NOVA documentary producer, Miles O'Brien, looks at how the events unfolded on the day of the bombing and he tracks how a team of investigators used modern technology, combined with good old fashioned detective work, to break the case.

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  • Chemical Time Bomb
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    #25 - Chemical Time Bomb

    Season 53 Episode 25 - Aired 7/22/2013

    In the 1980s and 1990s governments across Australia outlawed the use of the herbicide 245T. The ban was introduced for one very good reason - 245T contains dioxin, a chemical impurity with the potential to seriously harm people who are exposed to it. But has the dioxin menace been tamed? Four Corners reveals evidence that this potentially deadly chemical compound may still be present in weed control products and that authorities do not routinely test for it.

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