NaN/100 votes#1 - Escape from Saudi
Season 59 Episode 1 - Aired 2/4/2019
Four Corners reporter Sophie McNeill reveals the story of Saudi asylum seeker Rahaf Al Qunun from inside a Bangkok hotel room capturing the high tension, despair and eventual jubilation when Rahaf is offered asylum in Canada.
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6.0/1025 votes#2 - Meet the Scammers
Season 59 Episode 2 - Aired 2/11/2019
Their voices are persuasive, their emails insistent and they have proven to be remarkably successful at conning countless people into handing over their money. Internet scamming began in the early days of email with appeals from Nigerian 'princes' asking for help to regain their missing money. From those amateurish beginnings, the scammers watched, learned and refined their techniques. What started out as a simple scam from West Africa has now morphed into a global enterprise, conning people on an industrial scale.
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7.0/105 votes#3 - Project Dragon
Season 59 Episode 3 - Aired 2/18/2019
As China transforms into an economic powerhouse, billions of dollars have been illegally spirited out of the country. Mark Willacy reports on the bounty hunters chasing China's missing millions in Australia.
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NaN/100 votes#4 - Criminalising Women
Season 59 Episode 4 - Aired 2/25/2019
Why are so many women going to prison? Across Australia, there are now more women in prison than ever before - and once they're out they're very likely to reoffend and end up back inside.
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NaN/100 votes#5 - Guilty: The Conviction Of Cardinal Pell
Season 59 Episode 5 - Aired 3/4/2019
Four Corners reveals how Australia's highest ranking Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, was brought to justice. With the suppression order lifted on his conviction for sexually abusing two boys, the full story can now be told.
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NaN/100 votes#6 - The Mystery of the Missing Princess
Season 59 Episode 6 - Aired 3/11/2019
In heart-stopping interviews and video we follow the story of Princess Latifa, daughter of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum - the ruler of Dubai whose horse won the 2018 Melbourne Cup, as she attempts to escape Dubai.
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NaN/100 votes#7 - The Uber Story
Season 59 Episode 7 - Aired 3/18/2019
Uber is one of the most recognisable brands in the world. It's embedded in our language and revolutionised transport. How did the edgy digital disruptor upend an entire business model, outwit regulators and crush competitors?
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5.2/1028 votes#8 - Under the Radar
Season 59 Episode 8 - Aired 3/25/2019
The Christchurch terror attack brought to light the violent, disturbing right-wing extremist movement flourishing on the internet. Were authorities so focused on Islamic extremism that they failed to grasp this deadly threat?
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NaN/100 votes#9 - Climate of Change
Season 59 Episode 9 - Aired 4/1/2019
The struggle to reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. With a Federal election looming, we explore climate change policy: from electricity prices, the role of coal, the cars we drive, animals we breed and gas we export.
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NaN/100 votes#10 - Interference
Season 59 Episode 10 - Aired 4/8/2019
New evidence of China's covert political influence campaign in Australia. We reveal secret Beijing-backed political activity and information gathering operations targeting politicians and Chinese dissenters in Australia.
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NaN/100 votes#11 - Orphans of ISIS
Season 59 Episode 11 - Aired 4/15/2019
A grandmother's desperate journey to rescue her children and bring them home. Four Corners exclusively brings you the story of the Sharrouf children and their grandmother's fight to save them from a refugee camp in Syria.
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6.0/105 votes#12 - The Interrogation
Season 59 Episode 12 - Aired 4/29/2019
Four Corners explores the controversial police technique putting innocent people behind bars, with a series of high-profile cases across America revealing a slew of wrongful convictions based on false confessions.
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NaN/100 votes#13 - Cash Cows
Season 59 Episode 13 - Aired 5/6/2019
Universities that were cash strapped are now flush with billions of dollars brought in from fee paying international students. But there are growing concerns about the consequences of the overseas student boom.
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NaN/100 votes#14 - Inside the Watch House
Season 59 Episode 14 - Aired 5/13/2019
It's almost three years since the shocking revelations of mistreatment in the NT's Don Dale youth detention centre. Four Corners investigates a new child detention crisis in another part of Australia. Mark Willacy reports.
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NaN/100 votes#15 - Abbott's End: How Tony Abbott Lost the Fight of His Political Life
Season 59 Episode 15 - Aired 5/20/2019
The Battle for Warringah is one of this election's most intriguing. We examine the new style of campaigning and the future of the Liberal Party through the battle between Former PM Tony Abbott and Independent Zali Steggall.
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NaN/100 votes#16 - Notre-Dame in Flames
Season 59 Episode 16 - Aired 5/27/2019
On April 15, the world watched in horror as the Notre-Dame Cathedral caught alight. Through interviews and video from fire authorities and eyewitnesses we follow the epic battle to save the 800-year-old architectural icon.
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NaN/100 votes#17 - Tremble and Obey
Season 59 Episode 17 - Aired 6/3/2019
How the Chinese Communist Party crushed democracy. 30 years ago millions of students and citizens protested in Tiananmen Square calling for democracy. A trove of vision and audio reveals how the shocking events unfolded.
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NaN/100 votes#18 - Time Bomb: The Making of the Bourke Street Murderer
Season 59 Episode 18 - Aired 6/10/2019
Louise Milligan investigates what led up to James Gargasoulas driving a car at high speed through Melbourne's Bourke Street killing six people, despite facing serious criminal charges and warnings he was a danger to others.
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NaN/100 votes#19 - Trump's Trade War
Season 59 Episode 19 - Aired 6/17/2019
President Trump has ignited a massive trade war with China, slapping billions of dollars worth of tariffs on Chinese goods. Despite the rhetoric, questions are being asked about who has the most to lose from the conflict.
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NaN/100 votes#20 - Extinction Nation
Season 59 Episode 20 - Aired 6/24/2019
Australia has one of the worst extinction rates on the planet, and growing. Four Corners goes into the field with leading scientists and conservation volunteers to document first hand the fight to save these wild creatures.
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NaN/100 votes#21 - Shadow Commander: Iran's Military Mastermind
Season 59 Episode 21 - Aired 7/1/2019
In increasingly alarming scenes, the US and Iran are facing off in the Middle East. Tensions have escalated, driven by concerns over the Islamic Republic's nuclear capabilities which have led to fears of military conflict.
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NaN/100 votes#22 - Cash Splash
Season 59 Episode 22 - Aired 7/8/2019
Two years on from the investigation into water theft in the Murray-Darling Basin that sparked a royal commission, we return to the river system to investigate new concerns about how the plan to rescue it is being carried out.
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NaN/100 votes#23 - Tell the World
Season 59 Episode 23 - Aired 7/15/2019
We uncover disturbing evidence of how China is effectively operating the world's largest prison. In Xinjiang province the Uyghur population is rounded up, detained or monitored using AI technology and mass surveillance tools.
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NaN/100 votes#24 - Hero or Villain: The Prosecution of Julian Assange (Part 1)
Season 59 Episode 24 - Aired 7/22/2019
Julian Assange is one of the most influential figures of our time. The Australian born founder of WikiLeaks harnessed technology to champion free speech and the right to know. But is he a hero or villain?
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NaN/100 votes#25 - Hero or Villain (Part 2) The United States Vs Julian Assange
Season 59 Episode 25 - Aired 7/29/2019
In 2016 Donald Trump enjoyed Wikileaks damaging Hillary Clinton's campaign. Now President Trump wants to imprison the publisher of the leaks. We explore Julian Assange's activities while sheltering in the Ecuadorian Embassy.
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The Best Episodes of Four Corners Season 59
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Season 59 Ratings Summary
"Escape from Saudi" is the best rated episode of "Four Corners" season 59. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/4/2019. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Meet the Scammers".