Four Corners(1961–)

Willie Brigitte

Allegations have swirled around Willie Brigitte ever since his discreet deportation from Australia and his much-publicised arrest in France in October 2003.

Lords Of The Forests

Ticky Fullerton looks at the management of Tasmania's forests and how one timber company enjoys extraordinary political support for its operations.

In the Firing Line

Fuelled by a cocktail of drugs, armed robberies are growing more violent and unpredictable.

Arafat Investigated

Why has Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat - once feted at the White House but now holed up in his West Bank headquarters - become such an outcast?

The Speed Trap

How police laid a trap to catch drug dealers but instead found themselves entangled in a web of corruption allegations.

Ethiopia: A Journey with Michael Buerk

Michael Buerk returns to Ethiopia 20 years after first alerting the world to the Ethiopian famine.

Tarnished Gold

Are Australia's sports bosses surrendering to the drug cheats?

Riot In Redfern

What really happened that night in the tiny Redfern community .

A Crime of Insanity

Troubling questions arise when the legal and psychiatric worlds collide.

Lost In Translation

Are Australians hitching a ride on China's economic juggernaut?

Killers

A report on the conditions that made the violence in Rwanda possible.

The Nuclear Bazaar

A special report on the frightening trade in nuclear secrets.

Fair Game?

Allegations of sexual violence have engulfed some of Australia's top AFL footballers and their clubs.

Rich Man, Poor Man

The fight between Australia and East Timor over billion dollar oil and gas interests.

Al Qaeda Family

The inside story of the family that lived and trained with Osama Bin Laden.

Till Debt Us Do Part

Where will the credit binge end for the many thousands of Australians in debt?

The Taking of Logan Marr

Under what circumstances should a child be taken from its birth parents?

Chain of Command

The story behind what may endure as defining images of war in Iraq.

Corruption Inc.

Corruption spreads from state police forces into the Australian Crime Commission.

A Blind Eye

Is the RSPCA turning a blind eye to cruelty for the benefit of commercial interests?

The Clinton Interview

Bill Clinton defends his record and tells how his public and private lives clashed.

A Case To Answer

How the justice system failed star swim coach Scott Volkers and the women he was accused of sexually molesting.

A Dangerous Business

How one company’s obsession with the bottom line left a trail of death and dismemberment among its workers.

Worst of the Worst?

Four Corners investigates the story behind Mamdouh Habib's incarceration at the notorious prison Guantanamo Bay .

Training Day

Chris Masters talks to bent cops and police chiefs around Australia about the painful costs of corruption, the effectiveness of anti-corruption measures and the need for constant vigilance.

A Bitter Pill?

Jonathan Holmes investigates the cost to our subsidised pharmaceutical scheme since Australia signed the Free Trade Agreement.

The Secret Agent

This expose reveals the truth behind what the BNP has been telling the public in recent years, as it has tried to shed its image of a far-right, racist party.

Losing the Children

Four Corners tells the story of the Dalton family breakdown in the context of the Government's recent initiatives to reform the Family Court system, and the rising political influence of men's groups.

The Plea

"The Plea" examines the cases a jury will never get to hear and asks the question, is the plea bargain undermining an entire legal system?

After Saddam

What do Iraqis think about the war and its aftermath?

Doctoring the Figures

From outright fraud to allegations of cover up … and those who simply bend the rules.

Beating the Black Dog

Five Australians tell their story of beating depression; the 'black dog" affecting one in five Australians.

Run For Your Life

Four Corners presents the incredible journey of four young men .

Island Raiders

How can one island nation lose a two billion dollar fortune in the space of twenty years?

The Contenders

Liz Jackson follows the leaders' trails during an election campaign that's gone from truth in government, to billion dollar give-aways and old fashioned fear tactics - as the parties battle to win over middle Australia.

Battleground State

Reporter Jonathan Holmes takes us on a colourful journey through the battleground state of Ohio during the US Elections.

City Limits

Once we had enough water to waste.

A Baby To Save Our Son

Jamie Whitaker had been created to save the life of his brother Charlie, who suffers from Diamond-Blackfan anaemia, DBA, a form of bone marrow failure.

Trust and Betrayal

A story of spies, counterspies, double agents and defections as Andrew Fowler reveals the betrayal inside one of Australia’s secret intelligence agencies.

Blood Brothers

An exclusive story following a brave little boy’s fight to be cured.

What the Children Saw

In a place where they should have felt safest, the children of Beslan were targeted in an act of barbarism.

A Good Death

Four Corners follows four brave Australians as they come to the end of their lives, and the people determined to give them a good death.

Breaking Point

Will Australia's flawed disability support system be reformed in time to save the families now at breaking point?

The Warlord's Tune

A harrowing documentary that tells how thousands of young boys in Afghanistan are now being hunted and groomed to become sex slaves.

The State of Play

The inside story of the battle to control Australian tennis.

Scientology: The Ex-Files

Former members of the Church give a chilling portrait of life inside the organisation.

The Authentic Mr Abbott

A revealing profile of the man who wants to be the next Prime Minister of Australia.

Mexico's Drug Wars

A horrifying account of the brutal war that's raging in the towns that dot the border between Mexico and the United States.

Gypsy Child Thieves

The harrowing story of the children who are forced into a life of crime on the streets in order to survive.

Over the Edge

The harrowing story of the therapist whose work led some patients to believe they'd committed or been the victim of shocking sexual crimes.

A Dirty Business

How the people of a once picturesque valley found themselves surrounded by coalmines, dust and toxic chemicals, while the State Government ignores their pleas for help.

Chinese Whispers

Four Corners looks at events surrounding the arrest of mining executive Stern Hu and the tensions now involved in doing business with China.

A Lethal Miscalculation

The story behind the Federal Government's multi-billion dollar home insulation scheme debacle.

Chocolate: The Bitter Truth

An undercover investigation, spanning three continents, that exposes the way children are trafficked and used to produce the raw materials that drive a multi-billion dollar industry.

Access Denied

Quentin McDermott looks at the potential impact of the Government’s mandatory filtering system.

In a Strange Land

The story of a young woman's confronting journey back to the war-ravaged country of her birth.

Dirty Money

In this joint investigation with The Age newspaper, Four Corners reveals how the central pillar of Australia's financial system, the Reserve Bank, became ensnared in an international bribery scandal.

South Africa's Lost Innocence

South Africa has the highest incidence of rape in the world, and almost half the victims are children.

What's Yours Is Mine

How the government's attempt to introduce a resource super profits tax began a war with mine bosses, split the business community and may yet derail Labor's attempt to win the next Federal election.

One Shitty Deal

A story that reveals how a toxic cocktail of investment packages helped poison the retirement funds of hundreds of Australians.

Rush to Riches

How an attempt to negotiate a deal to create a state of the art resources development turned sour, pitting Indigenous people against each other and some of them against the State Government.

Dancing with the Devil

This story documents the intersecting lives of three men - a cop, a drug dealer and a preacher - as they struggle to survive on the backstreets of Rio de Janeiro.

A Careful War - Part 1

Chris Masters delivers the first of two ground level reports giving a soldier's-eye view of the bloody war being waged against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

A Careful War - Part 2

The story of Australian troops as they head into unchartered territory, trying to win the faith and trust of a brutalised people in conflict-torn Afghanistan.

A Dog Act

A forensic investigation of the killing of Kwementyaye Ryder by five white, local youths from Alice Springs.

Heart of Darkness

The story of a young woman's search to understand the shocking conflict that has laid waste the country where she was born.

Smugglers' Paradise

An expose of people smugglers and their networks in Indonesia.

Hidden Voices

The story of an Australian town that holds a lesson for each and every person who's been touched by mental illness.

Whatever it Takes

A critical look at one of the closest fought Federal elections in two decades, assessing the parties, their policies and the two people who want to lead the country.

Overdose

The story of the greatest financial crisis you will ever see...

Crime Incorporated

A joint ABC Four Corners/Fairfax investigation that takes us inside major Australian organised crime networks.

Body Corporate

The story of the high stakes battle that will decide who owns your body and the key biological building blocks that make you the person that you are.

After the Deluge

The story of the high stakes battle that will decide who owns your body and the key biological building blocks that make you the person that you are.

Return to the Rainbow Warrior

This week on Four Corners, "Return to the Rainbow Warrior", a story that attempts to finally get to the truth of a murderous attack that New Zealanders describe as an act of state sponsored terrorism.

Oxy: The Hidden Epidemic

This week on Four Corners, Oxy: The Hidden Epidemic - a story that reveals how the misuse of powerful prescription drugs is creating a new generation of addicts.

The Deal

The inside story of the historic deal that created Australia's first national minority government in seven decades.

Secret Iraq - Insurgency

Part one of a startling expose revealing what really happened in Iraq after the occupation of the country by Coalition troops.

Secret Iraq - Awakening

The story revealing how Coalition policy took Iraq to the brink of an all-out civil war and how key players in the U.S.

In a Fix

An investigation into the allegations of corruption and match fixing that threaten to undermine the multi-billion dollar sport of international cricket.

The Greenhouse Mafia

Four Corners returns for 2006 with a whistleblower... and revelations of a powerful insiders' club...

The Culture

It's blokey and it's bolshie, the envy of other unions, with near blanket coverage of its workforce. For decades it has sought to influence election campaigns, dragged concessions out of fearful governments and fought ferociously for its members.

The Forgotten Man

While WikiLeaks boss Julian Assange has been cast as a heroic champion of free speech, his ongoing expose of US foreign policy would not have been possible without the work of Private Bradley Manning. It was Manning who allegedly stole the classified documents published by WikiLeaks. It is Manning who now languishes in a US military prison.

The Gas Rush

With access to guerrilla activists and their undercover filming, Matthew Carney reports on the coalition of farmers, local townspeople and even a corporate titan who want to halt Australia's gas rush.

30 Billion Blowout

Tony Hayward, BP's former Chief Executive speaks out in a wide-ranging interview, reliving every aspect of the crisis: from being under the US media spotlight and running a multinational in financial meltdown, to dealing with a US President who was making the crisis personal.

The Miracle Baby of Haiti

The story of a baby girl plucked from the rubble of the Haiti earthquake and the British doctor who made the momentous decision to evacuate her. A simple act of mercy with profound consequences for everyone involved.

The National Broadband Network

Qantas Flight 32

When 440 passengers boarded Qantas Flight 32 bound for Sydney last November, they had every reason to feel confident. They were flying an airline boasting a unique safety record, on the world's newest, most sophisticated civilian aircraft, powered by prestigious Rolls Royce engines, famous for their reliability. But six minutes into the flight all that would change, when an explosion sent pieces of searing hot metal shooting out of the engine faster than the speed of sound. Four Corners tells the compelling story of the frightening hours that followed.

The Price of Freedom

How 33 miners in Chile, who dodged death, have come to terms with the horror they experienced and their second chance at life.

A Bloody Business

An explosive expose of the cruelty inflicted on Australian cattle exported to the slaughterhouses of Indonesia.

In Harm's Way

Culture of Silence

Bad Sport

Sarah Ferguson presents an investigation into the criminal networks that are threatening the integrity of sport, amidst the uproar over the match fixing revelations in tennis, Linton Besser reports.

Shark Alarm

What's behind the rise in shark attacks, and is there anything we can do to stop them? Geoff Thompson reports.

Dying To Dance

Dying to Dance. Inside the dance party drug scene. Caro Meldrum-Hanna reports.

Guns In The USA - Child's Play

Exploring America's gun culture where kids learn to shoot and their classrooms are designed to be bulletproof. How America grapples with gun violence.

Catastrophic Failure

In his first story for Four Corners, reporter Ben Knight travels to Brazil to investigate BHP's responsibility for the Samarco mine disaster that's destroyed lives and polluted an entire river system.

Money For Nothing

It's the bank that's spent two years rebuilding its reputation after being exposed for ripping off its customers in a devastating financial advice scandal. An explosive corporate investigation by Adele Ferguson.

Safari: Paying To Kill

The big game and big bucks in Africa's trophy hunting industry. Taking us into the darker world of illegal hunting where lions are tranquilised or partly domesticated to make them easier to shot.

Whatever It Takes

A rare account from inside the Essendon doping scandal. Quentin McDermott reports.

State Of Fear

The investigation into the scandal engulfing Malaysia's Prime Minister and the question that led to the arrest of our reporter and cameraman.

The Secrets Of The Super Rich

This Four Corners investigation will reveal how the rich and powerful exploit the system. Reporter Marian Wilkinson follows the money trail.

Clive Palmer

The rise and fall of Clive Palmer's business empire and political career. Hayden Cooper reports.

Inside Europe's Terror Attacks

In the wake of the attacks in France and Brussels, a BBC Panorama investigation into Islamic State's European terror network and Western intelligence agencies' battle to stop it.

Bad Blood

The bad blood between Australian doctors and the Federal Government over offshore detention.

Home Truths: What Happened To The Great Australian Dream?

Ben Knight reports on the white hot issues of housing affordability and negative gearing and the generation left wondering if they will ever own their own home.

Callous Disregard

Gold Walkley award-winning reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna follows the trail of evidence in the brutal death of a young woman as her family fights for justice.

Supplements and Safety

Supplements and safety: an investigation into the billion dollar health supplement and vitamin industry. What's in all those pills and could they be doing you harm?

Money And Influence

As we head into the third week of the election campaign, Four Corners examines how money and influence operates in the shadowy world of political donations.

The Baby Business

With an increasing number of women turning to fertility treatments to help them conceive a baby, Four Corners investigates, are women being sold false hope by the IVF industry?

Ripped Off

The scams, fraud and incompetence leaving remote communities exploited and betrayed. Linton Besser journeys almost 5000km across Australia in search of who's to blame.

The Miracle Of Kobani

We meet the people of the small Syrian town who defeated ISIS and are determined to rebuild their lives in the rubble.

The Deputy And The Dark Horse

The Deputy and the Dark Horse: Barnaby Joyce vs. Tony Windsor in the contest that could bring down the Deputy Prime Minister.

The Leaders

With the election only days away, Gold Walkley and Logie Award-winning reporter Sarah Ferguson interviews Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten. What will she ask?

Future Proof

With startling predictions that more than 5 million Australian jobs will disappear in the next 15 years, as a result of technology, we look at the future of work and ask are we preparing our kids for the jobs of the future?

Soldiers Of Allah

Going undercover with an ISIS terror cell. For six months this intrepid reporter infiltrated and secretly filmed a terrorist cell as they made plans for an attack.

The Race To Dope

The Race To Dope: The elite athletes blowing the whistle on how they cheated the system.

Australia's Shame

Australia's Shame: The brutalisation of children behind bars. This confronting investigation by Caro Meldrum-Hanna will send shockwaves around Australia.

Insult To Injury

Insult To Injury: How the system damages cops with PTSD. Quentin McDermott reports.

Man On A Wire

Man on a wire: How long can Malcolm Turnbull survive?

Milked Dry

Milked Dry: The awful price being paid by Australian dairy farmers for the milk we drink. Deb Whitmont reports.

Children On The Frontline

Children On The Frontline: Escape from Aleppo, one family's extraordinary story of life in the rubble of Syria and their escape to a new life, told through the eyes of four children.

Cyber War

Cyber War: How hackers are threatening everything from your bank account to the nation's secrets. Linton Besser reports.

Brexit: The Battle For Britain

The EU referendum result shocked many, but as this BBC film shows the warning signs were there. In interviews with key players, the program charts the tactics & spin used in the campaign.

Rehab Inc.

Rehab Inc: The high price parents pay to get their kids off ice. Ben Knight reports.

Backing Bourke

An outback town's bold experiment to save its young people from a life of crime.

Frat Boys

Inside America's university fraternities. They're the elite clubs where testosterone, alcohol & campus life come together in a potent mix. Normally media shy, one frat house agreed to let the cameras in.

China Rising

China Rising: The challenges for Australia as China and the US struggle for supremacy in Asia. Peter Greste joins Four Corners for a special report.

For Better Or Worse

For Better or Worse: How the personal has become political in the fight over same-sex marriage. Four Corners investigates the politics behind the plebiscite debate.

The Forgotten Children

They're the human face of Australia's tough border policies - the more than 100 refugee children living on Nauru. Debbie Whitmont reports.

Copwatchers

The activists using cameras to fight back against police brutality in the US.

Big Fish

Four Corners investigates the business of salmon farming. A report by Gold Walkley Award-winning journalist Caro Meldrum-Hanna.

Crossroads Afghanistan

Crossroads Afghanistan: A heart-stopping journey on one of the most dangerous roads in the world, right through the heart of Taliban country.

Broken Homes

Broken Homes: On the frontline of Australia's child protection crisis.

Lance and the Truth

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.

America's Broken Dreams

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.

Reach For The Sky

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?

Punch Drunk

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.

A Betrayal of Trust

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...

The Enemy Within

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

The Untouchables

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.

Mission Accomplished?

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?

Gas Leak!

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.

A Gracious Gift

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.

The Spies Who Fooled the World

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.

Who's Cheating Whom?

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

No Advantage

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.

The Surf Club

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.

Raising Adam Lanza

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?

The Big Gamble

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.

Hacked!

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

The Hunt For Britain's Sex Gangs

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?

The Hunting Party

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?

Escaping North Korea

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?

Fashion Victims

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.

On the Brink

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.

To the Bitter End

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.

Manhunt: The Boston Bombers

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.

Chemical Time Bomb

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.

In Search of Nathan Tinkler

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

Walking Wounded

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.

Cry Freedom: Mandela's Legacy

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.

Finding Mercy

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.

Buying Time

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.

No Margin For Error

Four Corners goes on the campaign trail, taking a fly-on-the-wall look at two seats that will be crucial in deciding who wins Government this time around.

In Google We Trust

Australians are among the most technically connected in the world - but do we know where our data goes and how it's being used?

My Own Choice

The story of a young man with a serious debilitating illness trying to find a way to legally end his own life.

Preying on Paradise

A look at the renewed fight against corruption in Papua New Guinea. Will Australia help or hinder the battle? Marian Wilkinson reports.

Cover Up

Two insiders blow the lid on a financial scandal that goes to the heart of one of Australia's most important and trusted institutions.

Terror in the Desert

The harrowing story of an al Qaeda raid on a remote North African gas plant, told by the people who survived it.

No Accounting

The Jawoyn people were held up as the model Indigenous community. What went wrong? Matthew Carney reports.

While They Were Sleeping

It was an Australia Day paddock party for a group of 19-year-old school friends. But something went very wrong. By sunrise, two young people were dying. So why has no one been held to account?

Fire In The Wire

We're told many bushfires are deliberately lit but close analysis suggests powerlines are the main culprits. What if many of our worst fires are in fact very much like industrial accidents which could have been prevented?

Supersizing India's Kids

A large part of India is in danger of eating itself into an early grave. BBC This World discovers Indian families, obsessed with the glitter of the West, are indulging their children with fast, fatty foods.

JFK - The Lost Bullet

Was John F. Kennedy the victim of conspiracy or a lone gunman? Can the third bullet fired at him that day in Dallas help answer that question?

Trading Misery

In September a boat carrying 72 asylum seekers sank in stormy waters off the coast of Indonesia. Most of those onboard drowned, many of them children. Sarah Ferguson goes on the trail of the people smugglers who organised the vessel.

This Trucking Life

Long haul truckies say they're being pushed to the brink by big business and government with lethal results.

Stone Cold Justice

Violence is part of life in the Middle East but have children now become a new target for Israeli security forces? A special investigation by journalist John Lyons.

Inside North Korea

Follows the journeys of a small group of North Korean secret film-makers, revealing what life is really like under the new leader Kim Jong Un.

Little Boy Lost

A little boy lost and a family's search for answers; how did the police get the investigation so wrong? Geoff Thompson reports.

Tales from the Organ Trade

Faced with death, would you illegally pay for a heart, lungs or kidney? Thousands do and the international black market is booming.

The Boy with the Henna Tattoo

The inside story of an investigation to rescue an Australian child from an international paedophile ring. Caro Meldrum-Hanna reports.

Drawing the Line

An investigation of the intelligence operation that's caused friction in Australia's relationship with East Timor. Marian Wilkinson reports.

The Dancing Shiva

Quentin McDermott investigates the scandal that's engulfing the National Gallery. Were our finest art experts duped?

How China Fooled the World

An investigation of the Chinese debt binge that's left economists holding their breath. What will be the impact on Australia?

A Lender of Last Resort

How does a mortgage broker, whose work has prompted multiple complaints and is the subject of ongoing police investigation, continue to operate? Linton Besser reports on Australia's shadowy world of unregulated lending.

End of the Road

The car manufacturing industry is on the way out, so what's the real impact? Stephen Long reports.

Day of Days

Four Corners commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings.

The Manus Solution

Geoff Thompson puts together the most comprehensive account yet of what took place at The Manus Island Regional Processing Centre in February 2014.

Banking Bad

Putting the spotlight on a top bank's financial planners. Was it bad advice or just greed? Adele Ferguson reports.

Streets of Shame

A shocking insight into the sexual exploitation of many thousands of poor and vulnerable children in Pakistan, one of the world's most important Muslim nations.

Lost: MH370

How did Malaysian authorities lose a plane, search in the wrong place and ignore significant evidence for so long? Caro Meldrum-Hanna reports on the Mystery of Flight MH370.

The Walking Wounded

It was a high-tech hip replacement that failed. The company tried to cover it up. Now they're exposed. Quentin McDermott reports.

The Pope's Revolution

Can Pope Francis reform a Church weighed down by scandal and controversy?

Chamber of Horrors

With ample evidence of sex abuse in the military, why don't the top brass deal with the abusers? Michael Brissenden reports.

In the Shadow of the Stadiums

Brazil splurged billions to host the soccer World Cup while many live a life of poverty and crime. What price the "beautiful game?"

Democracy for Sale

Democracy is a powerful concept. But it doesn't come cheap. Reporter Linton Besser delves inside the investigation that blew the lid on corruption within Australia's major political parties.

Rupert, Rebekah and Andy

She was the queen of the British tabloids, a faithful and trusted servant of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. He was the top aide to the British Prime Minister. But for the past eight months, Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson have been the focus of one of the longest-running criminal trials in British history.

Power to the People

While the rest of the world moves to embrace renewable energy why is Australia drawing back? Four Corners documents the revolution in power generation taking place across the globe.

Rosie's Story

It was a crime that left Australians horrified. The tragic death of Luke Batty, killed by his father. Could his brutal murder have been prevented? Luke's mother Rosie tells her story.

Generation Like

Thanks to social media, today's teenagers are able to interact directly with their culture and their heroes, dispensing approval to music, videos, food and clothes, as well as each other. They say that's empowering because they can deliver a verdict instantly. But is this empowerment or a new form of slavery? And are teenagers being manipulated by big corporations and the marketing moguls who see social media as the ultimate marketing tool?(Australia, English)

Cult Of Horrors

He is a self-styled evangelist who told his followers he was The Anointed One, chosen by God to convert the world to his beliefs. In reality, Scott Williams was a cult leader who used his own brand of religion to warp biblical scripture in the pursuit of sex, money and power. Reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna investigates the rise of Scott Williams and his incredible path around the world and back to Australia, exposing how he created a hell on earth for many followers.(Australia, English)

ISIS Terror in Iraq

They're known as ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) and they are sweeping across Iraq with frightening speed. They brutalise anyone they perceive as an enemy and then show the results in graphic detail, through a co-ordinated campaign on social media. BBC reporter Paul Wood goes into the front lines of this shocking conflict to investigate how and why ISIS or Islamic State, as they now call themselves, are ripping Iraq apart.(Australia, English)

In the Name of the Law

They were sexually abused by the clergy and then found themselves targeted by the Church's lawyers. Why did it happen and who was responsible for the strategy? Reporter Quentin McDermott reveals the systematic way the Catholic Church sought to conceal the sexual abuse of children, using lawyers to minimise the potential financial impact to the organisation.(Australia, English)

Battle for the Reef

Testing claims the Reef is at risk and should be on the UNESCO World Heritage 'in danger' list. Marian Wilkinson reports.

The Hand that Holds the Scalpel

He was a highly paid neurosurgeon, addicted to cocaine and obsessed with sex. Yet despite significant evidence he was running out of control, and the death of a call girl he'd hired, Suresh Nair continued operating in a private hospital. In a joint Four Corners/Fairfax investigation, reporter Tracy Bowden analyses what the NSW Medical Board, Nepean Public Hospital and the Nepean Private Hospital knew about the rogue doctor.

The White Widow

The story of the woman dubbed the White Widow, now one of the world's most wanted terror suspects.

MH17 - Caught in the Crossfire

The horror of flight MH17 and the shocking war that resulted in the plane being shot down. Stephen Long reports.

High Rollers - High Risk?

Australian casinos that target Asian VIP gamblers to boost their profits could run a serious risk of exposure to organised crime, according to a range of law enforcement and security experts. Reporter Linton Besser investigates the drive to entice foreign gamblers to Australia and the implications of that strategy.

Made in Thailand

Inside the surrogacy industry. Debbie Whitmont reports.

The Seduction of Smoking (1)

The tobacco industry is pouring vast amounts of money into developing electronic or e-cigarettes which are claimed to be safer than conventional cigarettes and could save millions of lives. (Part 1 of 2)

The Seduction of Smoking (2)

The tobacco industry is pouring vast amounts of money into developing electronic or e-cigarettes which are claimed to be safer than conventional cigarettes and could save millions of lives. (Part 2 of 2)

Privacy Lost

How governments use internet providers to spy on you.

Fat Chance

This week, reporter Geoff Thompson goes to the Victorian town of Ararat to see if an ongoing community intervention to promote weight loss and better health can work.

Ice Rush

This week on Four Corners, reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna travels through the regions of two states, riding with police and users, to tell the shocking story of towns and people in the grip of ice.

The Enemy Within

Investigating the Green on Blue killing of three Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. Quentin McDermott reports.

Gangster Jihad

Khaled Sharrouf: jihadist or simply a criminal? Marian Wilkinson reports.

Ireland's Lost Babies

The shocking story of how young unmarried Irish mothers were forced to work in work-houses to atone for their sins while their children were taken away from them.

Being Me

The story of girls and boys, born in the wrong body and their struggle to be who they are. Janine Cohen reports.

Revolution in the Classroom

"Revolution in the Classroom", reported by Matthew Carney and hosted by Kerry O'Brien. For some time now there's been a bruising debate about the balance of funding handed out to public and private schools. No one doubts it's an important debate, but many educators believe it has helped obscure an even more fundamental question about where the money is spent. Over the past decade, the Federal Government has spent billions of dollars trying to lower class sizes, increase the use of computers and boost investment in school buildings. At the same time, Australia's educational performance relative to key neighbouring countries has been falling. The question is why? For some the answer is simple. Money is being spent in the wrong places. Experts point to a growing body of research that says good teachers are the major determining factor in how a child performs at school. They claim that too little money is being spent on improving teacher performance. To make matters worse, state school principals are not empowered to make decisions about how their schools are staffed and run. As a result, some good teachers go unrewarded and bad teachers cannot be sacked. As one educational researcher puts it: "Outside of the home environment and the family situation, the biggest impact on a kid's education is teacher effectiveness. The quality of the instruction the teacher provides that student... If you have a teacher, one of the top performing teachers in Australia compared to one of the least effective teachers in Australia, that can be as much as a year's difference." Four Corners looks at the impediments to better teaching. Imagine running a business where you can't choose your own staff. Where you don't have control of your own budget to invest in innovative programs to improve the product you create. That's the situation many state school principals must deal with. "If you want the school to have the best staff, you have to choose them and they have to be able to match the needs of the school." - School Principal This week Four Corners visits three very different schools and talks to the people who are trying to change the system from within. As they tell the us, it's hard work but it is possible to dramatically turn a school around and change children's lives.

"A Helluva Ride" - The Trump Revolution Begins

Four Corners returns with an incisive exploration of how President Trump will wield power. Reporter Michael Brissenden interviews key players in the Trump camp & Republicans on the political earthquake rippling across the US.

Swallowing It

Escape from Saudi

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.

Meet the Scammers