The Fifth Estate (1976)

"Steven Truscott: His Word Against History," March 29, 2000 In 1959 a 14-year-old Ontario schoolboy was convicted of murdering a classmate and sentenced to hang. Four decades on, CBC's investigative program spent two years reexamining the case, questioned the forensic evidence and put Truscott on camera to declare his innocence publicly for the first time. The broadcast fed a public campaign that led the Ontario Court of Appeal to hear fresh evidence and acquit him in 2007. It suits viewers who like a cold case argued from documents, timelines and witnesses rather than speculation.