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Louis Theroux Specials

The City Addicted to Crystal Meth

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

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Documentary in which Louis Theroux visits Fresno in California's Central Valley to see how crystal meth addiction affects the local community, speaking to police and addicts. Show more

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Louis Theroux Specials

America's Medicated Kids

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

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Louis visits one of America's leading children's psychiatric treatment centres in an effort to understand why some parents put their children on drugs to control their behaviour. Show more

Louis Theroux Specials

Law and Disorder in Lagos

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

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Documentary. Louis Theroux is in Lagos, spending time with the local gangs, the so-called Area Boys, and the government's Kick Against Indiscipline paramilitary task force. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Director:
Jason Massot
Producer:
Jason Massot
Executive Producer:
Nick Mirsky

Louis Theroux Specials

America's Most Hated Family in Crisis

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

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Following up on his 2007 documentary, The Most Hated Family in America, Louis Theroux returns to Topeka, Kansas, for a week-long visit with the Westboro Baptist Church. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Executive Producer:
Nick Mirsky
Director:
Emma Cooper
Series Producer:
Emma Cooper

Louis Theroux Specials

Twilight of the Porn Stars

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

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Fifteen years after documenting the world of male porn performers in Los Angeles, Louis Theroux returns to find a business struggling with the deluge of free porn online. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Director:
Jason Massot
Executive Producer:
Nick Mirksy

Louis Theroux: Extreme Love

Series 1

Episode 1: Autism

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

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First broadcast in 2012, Louis visits a school for autistic children in Warren, New Jersey. He meets the students and their families to get a glimpse of what life is like for them Show more

Louis Theroux: Extreme Love

Series 1

Episode 2: Dementia

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

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Louis travels to Phoenix, Arizona - the capital of dementia care. He spends time with sufferers and relatives, exploring the struggle of living in a world of encroaching shadows. Show more

Louis Theroux's LA Stories

Episode 1: City of Dogs

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

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Documentary. Louis Theroux enters the bizarre world of LA's dogs, meeting the characters whose lives revolve around the city's huge canine population. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Director:
Rob Farquhar
Series Producer:
Rob Farquhar

Louis Theroux's LA Stories

Episode 2: Edge of Life

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

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Documentary. Louis Theroux explores the American way of death as he looks at end of life care in LA's most famous hospital, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Producer:
Jamie Pickup
Director:
Jamie Pickup
Series Producer:
Rob Farquhar

Louis Theroux's LA Stories

Episode 3: Among the Sex Offenders

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

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Documentary. Louis Theroux spends time in the twilight world of Los Angeles' paroled sex offenders, who live under force of tough regulations. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Director:
Rob Farquhar
Series Producer:
Rob Farquhar

Louis Theroux Specials

Transgender Kids

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

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Documentary. Louis travels to San Francisco where medical professionals are helping children with gender dysphoria transition from boy to girl or girl to boy. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Executive Producer:
Aysha Rafaele
Director:
Tom Barrow
Producer:
Tom Barrow

Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity

Series 1

Episode 1: Part 1

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

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Documentary. Louis explores the nature of mental illness. He looks at how to reintegrate a patient into society when they have previously committed a serious crime. Show more

Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity

Series 1

Episode 2: Part 2

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

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In the second of this two-part documentary, Louis Theroux examines the grey area between criminal actions and medical symptoms, and investigates how we define insanity. Show more

Louis Theroux Specials

A Different Brain

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

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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

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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 Interviews

Series 2

Pete Doherty

Duration: 44 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

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Louis Theroux travels to Normandy in France to spend time with rock star Pete Doherty - the iconic and controversial co-frontman of The Libertines. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Interviewed Guest:
Pete Doherty
Director:
Jonny Ashton
Producer:
Adam Hagerty
Editor:
Dan Gulley
Production Manager:
Georgina Rowlands
Series Producer:
Alex Kohler
Executive Producer:
Emma Whitehead
Executive Producer:
Arron Fellows
Production Company:
Mindhouse Productions

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Louis Theroux's Weird Christmas

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

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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

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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

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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

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

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Series 1

Head for the Hills

Duration: 49 minutes

on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

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In Idaho, Louis meets right-wing patriots and militia enthusiasts who are preparing for what they believe is inevitable global catastrophe. (1998)

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