The Fifth Estate (1975)

Genre

documentary television program

Country

Canada

Length

17 seasons, 183 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a Canadian documentary series that investigates important topics. It goes beyond regular news to uncover original stories.

investigativeseriousinformativeauthoritativefactualsoberpurposefuldeliberate

What happens

The Fifth Estate is an English-language Canadian investigative documentary series that airs on the national CBC Television network. The name is a reference to the term "Fourth Estate", and was chosen to highlight the program's determination to go beyond everyday news into original journalism. The program has been on the air since 16 September 1975, and its primary focus is on investigative journalism. The show was launched in 1975 by Ron Haggart. It has engaged in co-productions with the BBC, The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and often with the PBS program Frontline. The Fifth Estate is one of two television programs (with The Twilight Zone being the first) to win an Academy Award, a prize presented to theatrical films: Just Another Missing Kid, originally a The Fifth Estate episode, was released in theatres in the United States and won the 1982 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. Every Thursday, The National airs a weekly segment that is based on the week's episode with Adrienne Arsenault introducing the segment. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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