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Louis Theroux Specials

The City Addicted to Crystal Meth

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

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 Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

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 Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

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 Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

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 Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

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 Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

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 Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

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 Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

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 Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

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 Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

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: By Reason of Insanity

Series 1

Episode 1: Part 1

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

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 Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

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 Ru Paul 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

Louis Theroux Interviews

Series 2

Pete Doherty

Duration: 44 minutes

on BBC Ru Paul Channel

Available for years

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 Specials

Talking to Anorexia

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Ru Paul 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 Ru Paul 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 Ru Paul 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 Ru Paul 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

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