For the last 25 years, Louis Theroux has been making documentaries about life in all its strangness, mystery, and angst. Trying to make connections with people who are in different ways living on the edge. …
Continue ReadingLouis Theroux: Drinking To Oblivion
Drinking To Oblivion sees Louis Theroux set about spending some time in the world of extreme drinkers, getting to know people who consume alcohol not just to excess but to the point of total oblivion. …
Continue ReadingLouis Theroux: Whites
As part of the series Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends which aired in the early 2000s, Whites is a film that sees presenter Louis Theroux head to South Africa. A country that up until the early …
Continue ReadingLouis Theroux: Heroin Town
These days the words ‘opiate addiction’ are synonymous with American society, the country has a twisted love affair with prescription painkillers and because of this we are witness to widespread dependancy issues seen across the country. In …
Continue ReadingLouis Theroux: Murder In Milwaukee
As of recent times the city of Milwaukee in the United States is said to be one of the most racially divided and deprived. Gun crime seems to be at an all time high with homicide …
Continue ReadingLouis Theroux: Savile
Over 15 years ago critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux made Jimmy Savile the subject of one of his When Louis Met… episodes. Theroux spent quite a bit of time with Savile for this project and even kept in …
Continue ReadingLouis Theroux: A Different Brain
Louis Theroux’s latest documentary A Different Brain, saw the presenter spending time with staff and service users at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust or BRIT, one of the UK’s largest providers of neuro-behavioural rehabilitation, in …
Continue ReadingLouis Theroux: Jimmy Savile
The now notorious Jimmy Savile was an English television and radio personality who throughout his career held many charitable fundraisers, managing to raise an estimated £40 million, however this being said he was probably best …
Continue ReadingLouis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity
Here is Louis Theroux latest documentary which is two parts and see’s him immerse himself in the world of mental health by paying a visit to Ohio’s maximum security state psychiatric hospitals and meeting people …
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