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Episodes The Settlers

The Settlers

Fourteen years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in the occupied West Bank.
Duration: 1h 2m First broadcast: 9pm 27 Apr 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 27 Apr 2028)
Episodes Shooting Joe Exotic

Shooting Joe Exotic

A decade on, Louis revisits Joe Exotic - 'gay hillbilly', convicted felon and cult figure. He digs into Joe's background, meets Carole Baskin and asks what made the Tiger King.
Duration: 1h 29m First broadcast: 9pm 5 Apr 2021
Availability: Available for over a year (until 05 Apr 2027)
Episodes Selling Sex

Selling Sex

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.
Duration: 59 mins First broadcast: 12 Jan 2020
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 05 Apr 2026)
Episodes Surviving America's Most Hated Family

Surviving America's Most Hated Family

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.
Duration: 59 mins First broadcast: 9:20pm 14 Jul 2019
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 05 Apr 2026)
Episodes Mothers on the Edge

Mothers on the Edge

Louis Theroux visits specialist psychiatric units which treat mothers experiencing serious mental illness whilst allowing them to live alongside their babies.
Duration: 59 mins First broadcast: 9pm 12 May 2019
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 05 Apr 2026)
Episodes The Night in Question

The Night in Question

Louis Theroux heads to US college campuses and comes face-to-face with students accused of sexual assault.
Duration: 1h First broadcast: 4 Mar 2019
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 05 Apr 2026)
Episodes Talking to Anorexia

Talking to Anorexia

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.
Duration: 59 mins First broadcast: 29 Oct 2017
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 05 Apr 2026)
Episodes Savile

Savile

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.
Duration: 1h 15m First broadcast: 9pm 2 Oct 2016
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 05 Apr 2026)
Episodes A Different Brain

A Different Brain

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.
Duration: 59 mins First broadcast: 15 May 2016
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 05 Apr 2026)
Episodes Transgender Kids

Transgender Kids

Documentary. Louis travels to San Francisco where medical professionals are helping children with gender dysphoria transition from boy to girl or girl to boy.
Duration: 59 mins First broadcast: 9pm 5 Apr 2015
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 05 Apr 2026)
Episodes Part 2

By Reason of Insanity: Part 2

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.
Duration: 59 mins First broadcast: 9pm 29 Mar 2015
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 05 Apr 2026)
Episodes Part 1

By Reason of Insanity: Part 1

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.
Duration: 59 mins First broadcast: 22 Mar 2015
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 05 Apr 2026)
Episodes Twilight of the Porn Stars

Twilight of the Porn Stars

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.
Duration: 59 mins First broadcast: 10pm 10 Jun 2012
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 05 Apr 2026)
Episodes America's Most Dangerous Pets

America's Most Dangerous Pets

Travelling to America's heartlands, Louis Theroux spends time with people who have private collections of tigers and chimpanzees.
Duration: 59 mins First broadcast: 9pm 30 Oct 2011
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 05 Apr 2026)
Episodes Part 2

Miami Mega-Jail: Part 2

Louis meets an alleged triple murderer facing a possible death sentence. He also follows a group of younger inmates attending a military-style boot camp.
Duration: 59 mins First broadcast: 9pm 29 May 2011
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 05 Apr 2026)
Episodes Part 1

Miami Mega-Jail: Part 1

Louis visits a notorious section of Miami County Jail, where some of the most volatile inmates are housed in cage-like dwellings and living under a gladiatorial code.
Duration: 59 mins First broadcast: 9pm 22 May 2011
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 05 Apr 2026)
Episodes America's Most Hated Family in Crisis

America's Most Hated Family in Crisis

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.
Duration: 59 mins First broadcast: 3 Apr 2011
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 05 Apr 2026)
Episodes Ultra Zionists

Ultra Zionists

Louis Theroux spends time with ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers, who consider it their religious and political obligation to populate some of the sensitive areas of the West Bank.
Duration: 58 mins First broadcast: 3 Feb 2011
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 05 Apr 2026)
Episodes Law and Disorder in Lagos

Law and Disorder in Lagos

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.
Duration: 59 mins First broadcast: 9pm 10 Oct 2010
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 05 Apr 2026)
Episodes America's Medicated Kids

America's Medicated Kids

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.
Duration: 59 mins First broadcast: 9pm 18 Apr 2010
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 05 Apr 2026)

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