Season 2013

E1. Lance and the Truth

Jan 4, 2013 · 60m

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.

E2. America's Broken Dreams

Feb 11, 2013 · 60m

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.

E3. Reach For The Sky

Feb 18, 2013 · 60m

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?

E4. Punch Drunk

Feb 25, 2013 · 60m

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.

E5. A Betrayal of Trust

Mar 4, 2013 · 60m

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...

E6. The Enemy Within

Mar 11, 2013 · 60m

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

E7. The Untouchables

Mar 18, 2013 · 60m

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.

E8. Mission Accomplished?

Mar 25, 2013 · 60m

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?

E9. Gas Leak!

Apr 1, 2013 · 60m

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.

E10. A Gracious Gift

Apr 8, 2013 · 60m

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.

E11. The Spies Who Fooled the World

Apr 15, 2013 · 60m

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.

E12. Who's Cheating Whom?

Apr 22, 2013 · 60m

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

E13. No Advantage

Apr 29, 2013 · 60m

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.

E14. The Surf Club

May 6, 2013 · 60m

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.

E15. Raising Adam Lanza

May 13, 2013 · 60m

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?

E16. The Big Gamble

May 20, 2013 · 60m

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.

E17. Hacked!

May 27, 2013 · 60m

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

E18. The Hunt For Britain's Sex Gangs

Jun 3, 2013 · 60m

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?

E19. The Hunting Party

Jun 10, 2013 · 60m

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?

E20. Escaping North Korea

Jun 13, 2013 · 60m

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?

E21. Fashion Victims

Jun 25, 2013 · 60m

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.

E22. On the Brink

Jul 1, 2013 · 60m

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.

E23. To the Bitter End

Jul 8, 2013 · 60m

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.

E24. Manhunt: The Boston Bombers

Jul 15, 2013 · 60m

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.

E25. Chemical Time Bomb

Jul 22, 2013 · 60m

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.

E26. In Search of Nathan Tinkler

Jul 29, 2013 · 60m

The rise and fall of Australia's youngest billionaire, Nathan Tinkler. How did he make so much money and where did it go?

E27. Walking Wounded

Aug 1, 2013 · 60m

War photographer Giles Dooley lost both legs and an arm while on assignment in Afghanistan and returns to record the plight of Afghan civilians who've lost even more.

E28. Cry Freedom: Mandela's Legacy

Aug 12, 2013 · 60m

Nelson Mandela promised a South Africa based on freedom and equality. But as the country's former leader lies in hospital critically ill, the nation he fought to create is slowly disintegrating. Violence is commonplace, unemployment is out of control and the ruling ANC Government is accused of rampant corruption.

E29. Finding Mercy

Aug 19, 2013 · 60m

What do you do when your best friend is lost to you in a tide of violence and cruelty? Do you search across continents to find her? That is the story of filmmaker Robyn Paterson and her friend Mercy.

E30. Buying Time

Aug 26, 2013 · 60m

There is not a person in the community that is not affected by cancer in some way. We go inside the hospitals and consulting rooms with Australians who are confronting the reality that the advanced cancer they have could kill them.