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Louis Theroux Specials

A Different Brain

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Documentary. Louis takes a look at the issues that some of the estimated one million people in the UK living with the long-term effects of a brain injury have to deal with. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Executive Producer:
Aysha Rafaele
Director:
Jamie Pickup
Producer:
Jamie Pickup

Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux sets out to understand how a man at the centre of British entertainment and charitable fundraising for decades was able to get away with a long litany of crimes. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Executive Producer:
Aysha Rafaele
Producer:
Arthur Cary

Louis Theroux Specials

Talking to Anorexia

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux spends time in two of London's largest eating disorder facilities to meet women with anorexia - an illness with the highest death rate of any psychiatric disorder. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Producer:
Ellena Wood
Director:
Ellena Wood
Series Producer:
Arron Fellows
Executive Producer:
Peter Dale

Louis Theroux: Dark States

Series 1

Episode 1: Heroin Town

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux embeds himself in a West Virginian community devastated by heroin abuse. He spends time with addicts and follows emergency services that are struggling to cope. Show more

Louis Theroux: Dark States

Series 1

Episode 2: Trafficking Sex

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux spends time with American women working in Houston's illegal sex industry and explores the often complex dynamic between prostitute and pimp. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Series Producer:
Jamie Pickup
Executive Producer:
Peter Dale
Editor:
Anna Price

Louis Theroux: Dark States

Series 1

Episode 3: Murder in Milwaukee

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux visits the Milwaukee Police Department as they patrol District 5, home to some of the nation's deadliest streets. Show more

Louis Theroux: Altered States

Series 1

Episode 1: Love Without Limits

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux travels to Portland, Oregon, to visit a movement seeking to rewrite the rulebook on how we conduct intimate relationships and experience family life. Show more

Louis Theroux: Altered States

Series 1

Episode 2: Choosing Death

Duration: 1 hour, 3 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux spends time with those preparing to take a lethal but legally prescribed overdose and meets a controversial group educating others in how to end their lives. Show more

Louis Theroux: Altered States

Series 1

Episode 3: Take My Baby

Duration: 60 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux explores open adoption in California, where women hand over their babies at birth to adoptive families paying tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege. Show more

Louis Theroux Specials

Mothers on the Edge

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux visits specialist psychiatric units which treat mothers experiencing serious mental illness whilst allowing them to live alongside their babies. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Series Editor:
Arron Fellows
Executive Producer:
Peter Dale
Editor:
Anna Price
Director:
Mark Casebow

Louis Theroux Specials

Surviving America's Most Hated Family

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux returns to visit the controversial Westboro Baptist Church, investigating what effect the death of its founder has had on its members and those who have since left. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Executive Producer:
Arron Fellows
Executive Producer:
Peter Dale

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux meets the women legally participating in the new sexual economy, exploring whether selling sex can ever be a healthy way to make money. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Executive Producer:
Arron Fellows
Executive Producer:
Peter Dale
Producer:
Cheryl Hockey
Director:
Joshua Baker

Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge

Series 1

Beyond Belief

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for 11 months

Louis Theroux looks back at his earliest documentaries and explores how some people’s most fervent beliefs can bring them into conflict with mainstream society. Show more

Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge

Series 1

The Dark Side of Pleasure

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for 11 months

Journalist Louis Theroux looks back at 25 years of documentaries and explores how America has managed to take our darkest desires and commodify them. Show more

Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge

Series 1

Law and Disorder

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for 11 months

Louis Theroux reflects on the documentaries he has made about the American criminal justice system. Show more

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for 11 months

Louis examines how the greatest source of love in our lives – our families – can often be the cause of our deepest pain. Show more

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Louis Theroux's Forbidden America

Series 1

Extreme and Online

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for 3 months

Louis Theroux meets the latest incarnation of the American far right: a political movement born out of the internet and increasingly making its presence felt on the political stage. Show more

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Louis Theroux's Weird Christmas

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

A typically offbeat look at the festive season as Louis Theroux unites four of the characters he met during his Weird Weekends series for a Christmas gathering in New York. Show more

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Series 1

Christianity

Duration: 49 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis travels to Dallas, at the heart of the American bible belt. There, born-again Christian evangelists offer to have him saved for the Lord on live TV show. (1998) Show more

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Series 1

Episode 2: UFOs

Duration: 49 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux continues his journey through the fringes of American society, visiting the deserts of the south west where UFO sightings are often reported. (1998)

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Series 1

Episode 3: Porn

Duration: 49 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux investigates the world of the male porn performer, and lands a role in an adult film. (1998) Show more

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