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Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Series 1

Head for the Hills

Duration: 49 minutes

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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)

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Series 2

Infomercials

Duration: 49 minutes

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Louis tests his sales skills on the Home Shopping Network, and enters the world of inventors obsessed with making their product the next big thing. (1999) Show more

Duration: 50 minutes

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Louis Theroux continues his exploration of the fringes of American society. He makes some new friends within Southern California’s swinging community. (1999) Show more

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Series 2

Black Nationalism

Duration: 49 minutes

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Louis Theroux travels to New York, the epicentre of the radical black nationalist movement, to meet proponents of black nationalism. (1999) Show more

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Series 2

Demolition Derby

Duration: 48 minutes

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This week, Louis Theroux tries to infiltrate Michigan’s demolition derby industry and drive in a race himself. (1999) Show more

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Series 2

Off-Off Broadway

Duration: 49 minutes

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Louis Theroux spends time in New York among the subculture of off-Broadway performers in his latest foray into the weirder fringes of American society. (1999) Show more

Duration: 49 minutes

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Louis Theroux investigates American wrestling. He hangs out with the WCW wrestlers of Monday Night Nitro and considers joining the Independent Wrestling Federation. (1999) Show more

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Series 3

Self-Fulfilment

Duration: 49 minutes

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Louis Theroux explores weirder fringes of society, arriving in Las Vegas on the trail of personal motivators who claim to be able to use hypnosis to help people's relationships with the opposite sex.

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Series 3

India: Enlightenment

Duration: 49 minutes

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Louis Theroux explores the weirder fringes of society, travelling to India, land of spirituality, where he hopes to find the meaning of life.

Duration: 50 minutes

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Louis Theroux visits whites-only communities in South Africa that are refusing to accept the end of Apartheid. He also meets white supremacist Eugene Terreblanche. Show more

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Series 3

Body Building

Duration: 49 minutes

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Louis Theroux continues to explore the weirder fringes of society. He travels to California, home of the body beautiful, to see if he can join the world of extreme body building.

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Series 3

Looking for Love

Duration: 48 minutes

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Louis Theroux travels to Bangkok, where he has an appointment at a marriage agency where Western men are introduced to Thai brides. He begins to wonder if love is what the men are really looking for. Show more

When Louis Met...

Series 1

Paul and Debbie

Duration: 50 minutes

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For 20 years Paul Daniels mesmerised audiences, helped by his wife and assistant, Debbie McGee. Louis Theroux finds out if Paul is ready for life out of the spotlight.

When Louis Met...

Series 1

The Hamiltons

Duration: 1 hour, 20 minutes

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Louis Theroux spends time with ex-Conservative MP Neil Hamilton and his wife Christine, a couple whose names have rarely been absent from media headlines in recent years. Show more

Louis Theroux Specials

Talking to Anorexia

Duration: 1 hour

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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

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