When to Watch

Fridays at 9 p.m.

9:30 p.m. in Newfoundland and Labrador

Featured & Recent Episodes

Rate My Hospital

Broadcast Date: Apr 12, 2013

Bob McKeown hosts the fifth estate's sweeping cross-country investigation into Canada's hospitals and what they don't want you to know.

Mission Improbable

Broadcast Date: Apr 5, 2013

Cyndy Vanier thought she'd hit the big time when she signed up with SNC-Lavalin for a high risk mission working undercover in Libya. Linden MacIntyre investigates how a billion dollars worth of business with a dictator and a mysterious plot landed Vanier in a prison cell in Mexico.

Ironman

Broadcast Date: Mar 29, 2013

He's been called a geo-vigilante, an eco-terrorist, a visionary who says he can fix global warming by seeding the ocean with iron. Thumbing his nose at UN conventions and possibly Canadian law, Russ George has teamed up with an impoverished Haida village to carry out his grand experiment off BC's coast.

Second Wave

Broadcast Date: Mar 8, 2013

Two years ago, thousands of lives were lost and the landscape of Japan was changed forever by a tsunami that saw more than five million tonnes of debris swallowed up by the ocean. Mark Kelley reports on the Second Wave of the tsunami headed for Canadian shores, and a remarkable human drama that links our country with Japan.

The Vanishing

Broadcast Date: Mar 1, 2013

A daughter's twelve-year quest to solve her mother's mysterious disappearance uncovers the dark secrets of a close-knit family.

The Unrepentant

Broadcast Date: Feb 22, 2013

Linden MacIntyre stares down some of Canada's most frightening criminals. They are dangerous, disordered personalities whose lack of guilt and shame makes them both fascinating and horrifying.

Crossfire

Broadcast Date: Feb 8, 2013

The Furious fight over guns in America.

Join thousands of Canadians across the country who have taken part in the fifth estate’s ongoing investigation into best and worst Canada’s hospitals. How would you rate your hospital? Would you give it five stars or three for communication or cleanliness? Were you treated with courtesy and respect? Would you recommend it to family and friends? It's your turn. Go online now, and rate your hospital, at cbcnews.ca/ratemyhospital