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Louis Theroux: Altered States

Series 1

Episode 1: Love Without Limits

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Ru Paul 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 Ru Paul 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 Ru Paul 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 Ru Paul 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 Ru Paul 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 Ru Paul 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 Ru Paul Channel

Available for 10 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 Ru Paul Channel

Available for 10 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 Ru Paul Channel

Available for 10 months

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

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Ru Paul Channel

Available for 10 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

Louis Theroux Interviews

Series 2

Anthony Joshua

Duration: 44 minutes

on BBC Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux goes head-to-head with world-famous heavyweight boxer and former two-time world champion Anthony Joshua at the north London boxing gym at which he began his career. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Interviewed Guest:
Anthony Joshua
Producer:
Adam Hagerty
Production Manager:
Georgina Rowlands
Series Producer:
Alex Kohler
Executive Producer:
Emma Whitehead
Executive Producer:
Arron Fellows
Production Company:
Mindhouse Productions

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Louis Theroux's Forbidden America

Series 1

Extreme and Online

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Ru Paul 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

Duration: 44 minutes

on BBC Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux meets platinum-selling rapper Stormzy for a frank and revealing conversation about his life and career. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Interviewed Guest:
Stormzy
Director:
Tom Barrow
Series Producer:
Emma Whitehead
Executive Producer:
Arron Fellows
Production Company:
Mindhouse Productions

Louis Theroux Interviews

Series 1

Dame Judi Dench

Duration: 44 minutes

on BBC Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux spends time with Oscar-winning actress Dame Judi Dench for a candid and lively conversation about her long career, her passion for theatre and her life away from acting. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Interviewed Guest:
Judi Dench
Director:
Tom Barrow
Series Producer:
Emma Whitehead
Executive Producer:
Arron Fellows
Production Company:
Mindhouse Productions

Louis Theroux Interviews

Series 1

Yungblud

Duration: 44 minutes

on BBC Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux spends time with singer and musician Yungblud in the middle of his world tour. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Interviewed Guest:
YUNGBLUD
Director:
Tom Barrow
Production Manager:
Mari Hardwick
Series Producer:
Emma Whitehead
Executive Producer:
Arron Fellows
Production Company:
Mindhouse Productions

Louis Theroux Interviews

Series 1

Bear Grylls

Duration: 44 minutes

on BBC Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux goes off-grid to visit the adventurer and television presenter Bear Grylls, travelling with him to his private island off the coast of Wales. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Interviewed Guest:
Bear Grylls
Director:
Angela Byrne
Production Manager:
Mari Hardwick
Series Producer:
Emma Whitehead
Executive Producer:
Arron Fellows
Production Company:
Mindhouse Productions

Louis Theroux Interviews

Series 1

Katherine Ryan

Duration: 44 minutes

on BBC Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux sits down with comedian, actor and writer Katherine Ryan for a frank and honest conversation about her career, relationships and the changing shape of her family. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Interviewed Guest:
Katherine Ryan
Director:
Tom Barrow
Line Producer:
Mari Hardwick
Series Producer:
Emma Whitehead
Executive Producer:
Arron Fellows
Production Company:
Mindhouse Productions

Louis Theroux Interviews

Series 1

Rita Ora

Duration: 44 minutes

on BBC Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux meets global popstar Rita Ora for a revealing conversation about her musical career, dealing with press scrutiny and her family’s arrival in the UK as refugees. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Interviewed Guest:
Rita Ora
Director:
Angela Byrne
Line Producer:
Mari Hardwick
Series 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 Ru Paul 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 Ru Paul 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 Ru Paul 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 Ru Paul 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

BBC Ru Paul Channel

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