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Episodes 124
Shark Alarm
What's behind the rise in shark attacks, and is there anything we can do to stop them? Geoff Thompson reports.
Read MoreDying To Dance
Dying to Dance. Inside the dance party drug scene. Caro Meldrum-Hanna reports.
Read MoreGuns 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.
Read MoreCatastrophic 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.
Read MoreMoney 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.
Read MoreSafari: 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.
Read MoreWhatever It Takes
A rare account from inside the Essendon doping scandal. Quentin McDermott reports.
Read MoreState 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreClive Palmer
The rise and fall of Clive Palmer's business empire and political career. Hayden Cooper reports.
Read MoreInside 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.
Read MoreHome 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.
Read MoreCallous 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.
Read MoreSupplements 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?
Read MoreMoney 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.
Read MoreThe 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?
Read MoreRipped 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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?
Read MoreFuture 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?
Read MoreSoldiers 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.
Read MoreThe Race To Dope
The Race To Dope: The elite athletes blowing the whistle on how they cheated the system.
Read MoreAustralia's Shame
Australia's Shame: The brutalisation of children behind bars. This confronting investigation by Caro Meldrum-Hanna will send shockwaves around Australia.
Read MoreInsult To Injury
Insult To Injury: How the system damages cops with PTSD. Quentin McDermott reports.
Read MoreMan On A Wire
Man on a wire: How long can Malcolm Turnbull survive?
Read MoreMilked Dry
Milked Dry: The awful price being paid by Australian dairy farmers for the milk we drink. Deb Whitmont reports.
Read MoreChildren 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.
Read MoreBrexit: 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.
Read MoreRehab Inc.
Rehab Inc: The high price parents pay to get their kids off ice. Ben Knight reports.
Read MoreBacking Bourke
An outback town's bold experiment to save its young people from a life of crime.
Read MoreChina 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.
Read MoreFor 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreCopwatchers
The activists using cameras to fight back against police brutality in the US.
Read MoreCrossroads Afghanistan
Crossroads Afghanistan: A heart-stopping journey on one of the most dangerous roads in the world, right through the heart of Taliban country.
Read MoreBroken Homes
Broken Homes: On the frontline of Australia's child protection crisis.
Read MoreA Sense Of Self
When acclaimed TV journalist Liz Jackson is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, crippling her with pain & panic attacks, she turns the lens on herself to make the most challenging story of her life.
Read More"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.
Read MoreSwallowing It
How Australians are spending billions on unproven vitamins & supplements. With 7 out of 10 Australians taking a complementary medicine, Four Corners looks at the regulation & marketing of these products.
Read MoreHighway To Hell
A Report from the Frontlines in the Battle Against the Islamic State. As the war against IS intensifies, Matt Brown reports from the frontlines of Mosul - the biggest urban battle since World War II.
Read MoreOceans Of Plastic
What happens to the plastic we throw away? A report on how our rubbish ends up in the ocean and the damage it causes.
Read MoreCrown Confidential: Packer's Losing Hand
The Crown empire have bet big for years on China. Four Corners investigates what went wrong for James Packer's gambling & entertainment operations in China & what this might mean for its Australian business.
Read MoreThe Price Of The American Dream
Can President Trump keep his promise to make America Great Again? Four Corners meets the human face of America's working poor as they struggle to feed their families.
Read MoreThe Age of Consequences
Four Corners brings you the views of distinguished former members of the US military and senior policy makers who warn that climate change is not only real, it's a threat to global security.
Read MoreFighting The System
The mothers and carers battling for justice and protection for their disabled children.
Read MorePlease Explain
Four Corners reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna reveals the brutal backroom politics ripping into Pauline Hanson's One Nation party.
Read MoreCracking The Code
Cracking the Code: What Facebook really knows about you. How one of the world's most powerful corporations is turning our lives and our data into vast profits, in ways we have no control over.
Read MoreSyria's Disappeared
This powerful film shines a light on the barbarism of the Syrian regime at a time when the future of President Assad is being argued over by the world's most powerful nations.
Read MoreAfter The Game
After the Game: Elite athletes blow the whistle on the high price paid for sporting glory.
Read MorePower Failure
Four Corners investigates how a nation as rich as Australia is in coal, gas, sunshine and wind, could find itself in an energy crisis.
Read MoreGun Runners
It was one of the biggest illegal firearms busts in Australian history. A criminal syndicate brazenly smuggling weapons into the country exposing the failings in the nation's border security. Ben Knight reports.
Read MoreThe Lindt Cafe Siege (Part 1)
A 2-part investigation into the Lindt Cafe siege. Sarah Ferguson talks exclusively with families of Tori Johnson & Katrina Dawson about their experience on the day & their devastation, anger & frustrations in the aftermath.
Read MoreThe Lindt Cafe Siege (Part 2)
Part Two takes you inside the Lindt Cafe & the police operation on the day, with a forensic examination of how the disaster unfolded. We expose what went wrong & ask whether Australia is prepared for another terror attack.
Read MorePower And Influence
An investigation uncovering how China's Communist Party is infiltrating Australia, tracking the activities of Beijing-backed organisations and the efforts made to intimidate CCP opponents.
Read MoreBreaking The Brotherhood
The brave few who blew the whistle on Australia's most corrupt police force.
Read MoreRise Of The Trolls
With the rise of social media and smartphones in virtually every pocket, internet trolls are only ever a click, tap or swipe away. Four Corners takes you into the dark side of the internet.
Read MoreBleed Them Dry Until They Die
The retirement villages ripping off retirees. Adele Ferguson investigates.
Read MoreThe Company He Keeps
This Four Corners investigation will reveal how Donald Trump was negotiating luxury resort deals in Bali and Java, raising serious questions about Presidential conflicts of interest.
Read MoreForget Me Not
A story of identity, love and dignity, introducing three families who tell their stories about living with dementia.
Read MoreDark Secret
In Philadelphia in the early 2000s, a team of lawyers embarked on an investigation led by a formidable District Attorney. What they uncovered was one of the worst criminal cover-ups in US history.
Read MoreWeapons Of Mass Surveillance
The digital age has revolutionised the way we live our lives. With the technology of smartphones governments have been given the ability to spy on their citizens on an astonishing scale. Nawal Al-Maghafi reports.
Read MoreInside The Greens
The Greens have been a party in disarray. As the party faces its biggest challenges since its foundation, Four Corners investigates if the party's actions live up to their spin. Louise Milligan reports.
Read MoreBetting On The House
Australians are carrying more personal debt than ever. We hold the second highest level of household debt in the world. Michael Brissenden investigates the forces driving our debt fuelled housing boom & the risks it poses.
Read MoreBlood Business
Giving blood is a selfless act that saves lives. For many, it's a way of giving back to the community. In other countries, blood has become a lucrative commodity fuelling a global trade worth billions of dollars.
Read MoreCombustible
In the wake of the tragic Grenfell Tower fire in London, reporter Deb Whitmont investigates the risk of flammable aluminium cladding in Australia & the dangerous legacy of failed regulation in the building industry.
Read MoreNorth Korea - Murder In The Family
How Kim Jong-un's murderous ambitions & nuclear weapons program are threatening world peace - tracing his rise to power, his aggressive pursuit of a nuclear weapons program to eliminating potential rivals.
Read MoreAll That Glitters
Developers, deals and donations on the Gold Coast. In this pro-development town, a series of controversial billion dollar proposals have prompted a collection of unlikely allies to say enough is enough. Mark Willacy reports.
Read MoreThe Ransom
Inside the murky world of international kidnapping and hostage negotiation. Every year more than 30,000 people are kidnapped around the world. A small number are taken for political reasons, many more held for financial gain.
Read MoreDigging Into Adani
The dubious dealings of India's corporate colossus. Four Corners travelled to India to dig into the business practices of Adani, the corporate giant planning to build Australia's biggest mine site. Stephen Long reports.
Read MoreContamination
It's one of the biggest environmental scandals in Australian history. Harmful chemicals, leaching into the ground & waterways, contaminating our water. Linton Besser investigates the toxic legacy of fire-fighting foam.
Read MoreHillary Clinton
In her only Australian TV interview, Hillary Clinton speaks exclusively with Sarah Ferguson. Candid, open & at times angry, the former presidential candidate talks about what went wrong & her fears for the future.
Read MoreWhat's Wrong With The NBN?
As the National Broadband Network passes the halfway point in its rollout, Geoff Thompson investigates why Australia's fast broadband is stuck in the slow lane, leaving a growing number of customers disappointed and angry.
Read MoreGermany's New Nazis
A right-wing nationalist party is centre stage in German politics for the first time since Hitler's Nazi Party. We chart the rise of a notorious anti-immigrant group which stands accused of a wave of violent attacks.
Read MoreInside The Tax Havens Of The Rich And Powerful
Inside the secretive world of tax havens where corporations and the wealthy operate far from public view. In a global investigation we reveal the lengths some business figures and global corporations go to avoid paying tax.
Read MoreMalcolm In A Muddle
In the week of the same-sex marriage survey result Four Corners looks into the battle for control raging inside the Liberal Party. Whatever the survey result, the politicking will be far from over. Michael Brissenden reports.
Read MoreThe Murphy Scandal
Justice Lionel Murphy was one of the most senior political and legal figures in Australia. He was also at the centre of one of the most extraordinary scandals in our nation's history. Debbie Whitmont reports.
Read MoreThe Billion Dollar Bust
Linton Besser reports on the undercover operation to catch the world's most wanted money launderer in The Billion Dollar Bust.
Read MoreBehind Closed Doors
The domestic workers treated like slaves in Australia. Louise Milligan investigates the hidden workforce kept behind closed doors, living in slave-like conditions and made to work around the clock.
Read MoreCity of Ghosts
The search for foreign fighters in the ruins of Raqqa. For four years Islamic State ruled its 'caliphate' from its capital Raqqa. ABC Middle East correspondent Matt Brown goes on an intense journey to the city freed from IS.
Read MoreEverything Forbidden, Anything Possible
Dancing, drugs and rebellion in the Islamic Republic of Iran. After decades of strict rules, many young people in Iran are now rebelling. They're taking their lives in their hands and defying the regime to party in secret.
Read MoreWeather Alert
How Australia's warming climate is changing the way we live and work. Rather than waiting for politicians, our farmers, small businesses, government planners and corporations are adapting to weather challenges and acting now.
Read MoreBig Australia: Are We Ready?
Australia's population is growing fast, we've added almost 400,000 people in the last year, and we're feeling the strain. Ben Knight investigates what a Big Australia means and the difficult choices that will have to be made.
Read MoreWorking with Weinstein
The women who worked for Harvey Weinstein tell their stories. For the first time, work colleagues and employees who kept quiet fearing legal action and reprisals, are coming forward to allege he used his power to abuse them.
Read MoreSuper Risk
The millions of Australians missing out on superannuation. Despite having a .5 trillion pool of retirement savings, the rise of the gig economy and freelance workers mean millennials are entering a very different workforce.
Read MoreMongrel Bunch Of Bastards
Taking on the extraordinary powers of the Tax Office. Adele Ferguson puts the actions of the ATO under the microscope, examining how it uses its extensive powers and whether it is acting fairly and ethically.
Read MoreDemocracy, Data and Dirty Tricks
The undercover investigation that left social media giant Facebook reeling. We unmask the secretive political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica and the dirty tricks they deployed to undermine the democratic process.
Read MoreGreen Rush
The race to riches for Australia's new marijuana moguls. While entrepreneurs are talking up the potential of products from insomnia cures to chronic pain treatments, patients are struggling to access cannabis products.
Read MoreTipping the Scales
Sugar, politics and what's making us fat. Michael Brissenden investigates the power of Big Sugar and its influence on public policy. We reveal the industry's tactics and the access they enjoy, as doctors warn of an obesity crisis.
Read MoreI Am That Girl
The case that put sexual consent on trial. The young woman at the centre of one of Australia's most controversial rape trials has chosen to speak to Four Corners in the hope others will learn from her experience.
Read MoreMind the Gap
Millions of Australians fork out big money for private health insurance. In this joint Four Corners investigation with Dr Norman Swan from RN's Health Report, we examine what's driving these out of pocket expenses.
Read MoreTrump/Russia: Follow The Money
Four Corners follows the money trail from New York to Moscow, tracking the ties between Trump, his business empire and Russia.
Read MoreTrump/Russia: Secrets, Spies and Useful Idiots
Sarah Ferguson continues to chart the extraordinary allegations, interrogating the evidence and interviewing key protagonists in this unfolding drama over members of the Trump team accused of being compromised by Russia.
Read MoreTrump/Russia: Moscow Rules
In the final part of our special report, Sarah Ferguson investigates central allegations that members of the Trump team, including possibly the President himself, actively colluded with Russia to subvert American democracy.
Read MoreSecond Chance Kids
The teenage criminals sentenced to life in jail. Being tough on crime has become a popular mantra for political parties, but calls for a crackdown have led to tougher penalties and mandatory life sentences for some youths.
Read MoreOut Of The Dark
The extraordinary rescue mission to save Thailand's lost boys. Mark Willacy documents the extraordinary international effort to find and rescue 12 school boys and their soccer coach from a remote cave in northern Thailand.
Read MoreMoney For Nothing
How corporate greed and deception cost AMP its trusted place in Australian life. How AMP ripped off customers including charging fees for no service and the measures it took to conceal its actions as it lied to the regulator.
Read MoreChampagne With Dictators
Australia accused of failing to stand up for democracy as Cambodia descends into dictatorship. Sophie McNeill confronts the man whose political opponents have been imprisoned and assassinated in mysterious circumstances.
Read MoreInside Facebook
The undercover investigation exposing how Facebook decides what you see. An undercover reporter, training as a content moderator, is taken through the rules behind the social networking site, secretly filming the process.
Read MoreBeauty's New Normal
Welcome to the new world of enhanced 'beauty' where there's nothing natural about the faces and bodies created by cosmetic procedures. Fuelled by social media influencers, cosmetic surgery has entered the mainstream.
Read MoreParenting 101
Having a child is supposed to be the most natural thing in the world, but knowing how to raise children can be daunting. Follow the story of three mothers determined to learn how to become better parents.
Read MoreA Form of Madness
How the Liberal Party tore itself apart. This special Four Corners investigation takes you inside a political catastrophe. We chart the rise and fall of Malcolm Turnbull and the enemies that stalked him from within.
Read MorePopulist Revolution
Strategist and provocateur Steve Bannon channelled the anger of those who felt left behind by globalism to elect Trump as president. Sarah Ferguson interviews Bannon on his crusade for a global populist-nationalist movement.
Read MoreManchester Bomb: Our Story
The teenage survivors rebuilding their lives. They were young girls and teenagers, out to see their favourite pop star in Manchester. As the show ended, a terrorist detonated a home-made bomb killing 22 and injuring 250.
Read MoreWho Cares? (Part 1)
In part one, Four Corners investigates the business of aged care and what that means for the vulnerable residents left in its care. Families speak out with disturbing accounts of overworked staff and neglected residents.
Read MoreWho Cares? (Part 2)
In part two, we detail shocking cases of abuse and premature deaths in our nursing homes. Carers and families come forward to tell their stories and reveal the abject failure of government regulation to protect the elderly.
Read MoreProud Country
A portrait of a community surviving the drought. A story from the heart of the drought, a portrait of the land and its people where lack of rain is biting hard. Witness the strength of Quirindi doing all they can to carry on.
Read MoreThe Monsanto Papers
The secret tactics used by global chemical giant Monsanto to protect its billion-dollar business and its star product, the weed killer, Roundup. We trace the company's influence campaign from the US back to Australian farms.
Read MorePrisons Uncovered
Hidden cameras behind bars reveal the problems facing governments around the world: how to manage soaring prison populations, rife with drugs, violence and squalid living conditions as well as the rise of privately run jails.
Read MoreWindsor Inc.
The visit by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex was a triumph for the House of Windsor brand. We examine the sophisticated corporate campaign to future-proof the Crown and how the Royals modernised and rebuilt their reputation.
Read MoreCrime and Panic
According to the media, Melbourne is in the grip of a crimewave, overrun by African street gangs responsible for a wave of violence. Reporter Sophie McNeill is on the ground to get to the truth about "African" crime.
Read MoreBitter End
The final Four Corners for 2018 examines the corporate crisis that engulfed the ABC and brought down both the Managing Director and Chair. Sarah Ferguson speaks with inside players including Michelle Guthrie and Justin Milne.
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