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The Best Episodes of The Fifth Estate Season 37

Every episode of The Fifth Estate Season 37 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Fifth Estate Season 37!

Each week the fifth estate brings in-depth investigations that matter to Canadians – delivering a dazzling parade of political leaders, controversial characters and ordinary people...
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Season 37 Ratings Summary

"Truth and Lies: The Last Days of Osama Bin Laden" is the best rated episode of "The Fifth Estate" season 37. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/9/2011. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Swissair 111: The Untold Story".

  • Truth and Lies: The Last Days of Osama Bin Laden
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    #1 - Truth and Lies: The Last Days of Osama Bin Laden

    Season 37 Episode 1

    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.

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  • Swissair 111: The Untold Story
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    #2 - Swissair 111: The Untold Story

    Season 37 Episode 2

    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.

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  • Gatti-vs-Gatti
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    #3 - Gatti-vs-Gatti

    Season 37 Episode 3

    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.

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  • Mayday
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    #4 - Mayday

    Season 37 Episode 4

    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.

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  • Colonel Gadhafi: Palace of Secrets
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    #5 - Colonel Gadhafi: Palace of Secrets

    Season 37 Episode 5

    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.

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  • True Confession
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    #6 - True Confession

    Season 37 Episode 6

    Aired 10/14/2011

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

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  • Scout's Honour
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    #7 - Scout's Honour

    Season 37 Episode 7

    Aired 10/21/2011

    Diana Swain investigates sexual abuse in Scouts Canada.

    Director: N/A

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  • 'Til Death Do Us Part (Update)
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    #8 - 'Til Death Do Us Part (Update)

    Season 37 Episode 8

    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.

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  • Stories from the River's Edge
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    #9 - Stories from the River's Edge

    Season 37 Episode 9

    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.

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  • Murder, He Wrote
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    #10 - Murder, He Wrote

    Season 37 Episode 10

    Aired 11/18/2011

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Cold Case
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    #11 - A Cold Case

    Season 37 Episode 11

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Holiday Hell
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    #12 - Holiday Hell

    Season 37 Episode 12

    Aired 12/2/2011

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

    Director: N/A

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  • Behind the Line
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    #13 - Behind the Line

    Season 37 Episode 13

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Escape From Justice
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    #14 - Escape From Justice

    Season 37 Episode 14

    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.

    Director: N/A

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  • Diagnosis Murder
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    #15 - Diagnosis Murder

    Season 37 Episode 15

    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.

    Director: N/A

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  • The Lies People Tell
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    #16 - The Lies People Tell

    Season 37 Episode 16

    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.

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  • Who's Killing The Rizzutos?
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    #17 - Who's Killing The Rizzutos?

    Season 37 Episode 17

    Aired 1/27/2012

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

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  • The Wreck of the Costa Concordia
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    #18 - The Wreck of the Costa Concordia

    Season 37 Episode 18

    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.

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  • The House of Shafia
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    #19 - The House of Shafia

    Season 37 Episode 19

    Aired 2/10/2012

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

    Director: N/A

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  • The Lost Boys
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    #20 - The Lost Boys

    Season 37 Episode 20

    Aired 2/17/2012

    The new chapter in the explosive allegations against Scouts Canada.

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  • Fearless
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    #21 - Fearless

    Season 37 Episode 21

    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.

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  • Fast Break
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    #22 - Fast Break

    Season 37 Episode 22

    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.

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  • Time Bomb
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    #23 - Time Bomb

    Season 37 Episode 23

    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.

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  • Lost on the Ice
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    #24 - Lost on the Ice

    Season 37 Episode 24

    Aired 3/23/2012

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

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  • Kidnapped
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    #25 - Kidnapped

    Season 37 Episode 25

    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.

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