Four Corners Season 59 Episodes

Episode 1

Standing Witness

The women who make it and ones who don't."My name is Rahaf Mohammed. I'm 18 years old They have my passport and tomorrow they will force me to go backPlease help me.

Episode 2

Escape From Saudi

44 mins

The cyber criminals breaking hearts and stealing billions."The criminals involved in this are definitely masters of manipulation.

Episode 3

Meet the Scammers

44 mins

The web is as valuable to all of us as it is to a new breed of criminal. Email scams are part of everyone's online experience. Behind them have emerged global enterprises, conning vulnerable people on an industrial scale, and earning criminals billions in the process. Meet the Scammers brings us face-to-face with the young men manning the keyboards in dodgy internet cafes - the world's latest criminal gold rush.

Episode 4

Project Dragon

42 mins

"We're criminalising more women than ever before." Prisoner rights activist."I have been to prison five times I have been to prison for break.

Episode 5

Criminalising Women

45 mins

On Monday, Four Corners reveals how Australia's highest ranking Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, was brought to justice.

Episode 6

Guilty: The Conviction of Cardinal Pell

44 mins

Most Australians had probably never heard of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum till his horse Cross Counter won Melbourne Cup last year after a two-decade campaign.

Episode 7

The Mystery of the Missing Princess

Uber is most recognisable brands in world. It's embedded itself in our language.

Episode 8

The Uber Story

The Christchurch massacre and rise of right-wing extremism."Grafton is a monochrome, traditional, beautiful little country town.

Episode 9

Under the Radar

Climate of Change, reported by Stephanie March.The struggle to reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.

Episode 10

Climate of Change

44 mins

Interference, reported by Nick McKenzie.New evidence of China's covert political influence campaign in Australia.

Episode 11

Interference

46 mins

Four Corners exclusively brings you story of Sharrouf children and their grandmother's epic fight to find them.

Episode 12

Orphans of ISIS

60 mins

A grandmother's desperate journey to save her children from Isis. Karen Nettleton has spent five years trying to rescue her grandchildren and great grandchildren from Syria. With their jihadist parents dead, the children are now stuck in a refugee camp, desperate to return home.

Episode 13

The Interrogation

Across Australia university business is booming. Higher education institutions that only a few years ago were cash strapped are now flush with billions of dollars brought in from fee paying international students.

Episode 14

Cash Cows

42 mins

It's almost three years since Four Corners exposed shocking revelations of mistreatment in Northern Territory's Don Dale youth detention center in Australia's Shame.

Episode 15

Inside the Watch House

43 mins

What was previously titled as "The Fight of His Life" is now "Abbott's End: How Tony Abbott Lost Fight of His Political Life.

Episode 16

Abbott's End: How Tony Abbott Lost the Fight of His Political Life

45 mins

What was previously titled as "The Fight of His Life" is now "Abbott's End: How Tony Abbott Lost Fight of His Political Life".

Episode 16

Abbott's End: How Tony Abbott Lost the Fight of His Political Life

45 mins

What was previously titled as "The Fight of His Life" is now "Abbott's End: How Tony Abbott Lost Fight of His Political Life".

Episode 17

Notre-Dame in Flames

Thirty years ago, in center of China's communist capital, millions of students and citizens staged weeks of protests calling for democracy.

Episode 18

Tremble and Obey

48 mins

30 years on from the Chinese state's brutal put-down of a student-led pro-democracy protest in 1989, ABC Australia looks back through its video archive to unearth never-before-seen footage captured by its team on the ground. A watershed moment in a post-Mao China, the Communist Party has sought to erase all public discourse and memory of that day, making this record all the more significant.

Episode 19

Time Bomb

US President Donald Trump has ignited a massive trade war with China, slapping billions of dollars worth of tariffs on Chinese goods.

Episode 20

Extinction Nation

Australia boasts a stunning array of unique wildlife. They feature on our coat of arms and they're placed front and center in our tourism campaigns.

Episode 21

Shadow Commander

In increasingly alarming scenes, United States and Iran are facing off in Middle East.

Episode 22

Cash Splash

Two years on from Four Corners investigation into water theft in Murray-Darling Basin that sparked a royal commission, program returns to river system to investigate new concerns how plan to rescue it is being carried out.

Episode 23

Tell the World

It's a remote corner of world, but what is taking place there is nothing short of breathtaking.

Episode 24

Hero or Villain: The Prosecution of Julian Assange

Julian Assange is most influential figures of our time. The Australian born founder of WikiLeaks harnessed technology to champion free speech and right to know.

Episode 25

Hero or Villain: The Prosecution of Julian Assange

In 2016 race to White House, presidential candidate Donald Trump took a shine to whistleblowing site WikiLeaks, led by its Australian founder Julian Assange.

Episode 26

Britain's Brexit Crisis

Three years ago, Britain had a new Prime Minister and a promise to take United Kingdom out of European Union by delivering on people's vote for "Brexit".

Episode 27

Betting on Boris

The elevation of Boris Johnson to Prime Ministership of Great Britain has been greeted with elation in some quarters, with undisguised horror in others.

Episode 28

Cracking Up

For 20 years nation's city skylines have been changing with building of more than 650,000 apartments across country.

Episode 29

Secrets, Spies and Trials

National security versus public's right to know. The extraordinary steps Australia's government took to prosecute a former spy and his lawyer for conspiring to reveal secret intelligence operations aimed at a foreign government.

Episode 30

Rebellion: On The Frontline of Hong Kong's Uprising

For 12 weeks Hong Kong has been convulsed by turmoil as pro-democracy flash mob protestors rise up against mainland Chinese rule.

Episode 31

Health Hazard

How your postcode can determine quality of care you get. Medical staff speak out about standard of hospital care after a series of catastrophic incidents resulting in preventable death, injury or permanent disability.

Episode 32

Fake News: The Battle of the Social Networks

Social media has transformed how we communicate and share thoughts. But it has morphed into perfect platform for orchestrated disinformation campaigns.

Episode 33

After Death

Dying is an expensive business with billion-dollar funeral industry virtually unregulated.

Episode 34

Married to Islamic State

For first time former brides of Islamic State tell their stories of life in caliphate.

Episode 35

Killer Nurse

Sir Trevor McDonald investigates extraordinary case of Britain's worst serial killers: Beverly Allitt.

Episode 36

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Australia's universities are embroiled in a growing geopolitical storm amid rising concerns over expanding Chinese power abroad. Is Australian technology and know-how being used to help strengthen China's repressive regime?

Episode 37

Reprehensible Conduct

The scandalous case of Lawyer X and underbelly murder investigations. Prominent figures reveal story of cops, criminals, murder and betrayal, and how actions of Victoria Police have undermined justice system.

Episode 38

Red Flags

46 mins

The infiltration of Australia's universities by the Chinese Communist Party. Australia's universities are embroiled in a growing geo-political storm amid rising concerns over the Chinese Government's expanding power abroad. Universities earn billions of dollars a year from student fees and research collaborations with China, but there are growing fears these lucrative arrangements may be putting our academic institutions at risk.

Episode 39

Person of Interest

The man wrongly accused in William Tyrrell child abduction investigation, Bill Spedding, speaks publicly for first time. How did a single-minded approach by police lead to a raft of mistakes and missed opportunities.

Episode 40

Digi Kids

There's no more precious resource in Australia than our children. Equipping them with reading and writing skills to face future is vital, not only for their own success but for nation's prosperity.