Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux travels to California to meet the man dubbed "the most dangerous racist in America"; Tom Metzger. Louis meets him, his family and his publicity manager as well as following him to skinhead rallies and on a visit to Mexico. (imdb)

Louis Theroux travels to Las Vegas and meets various gamblers, including some big high rollers.

Louis Theroux visits San Quentin prison in California and meets guards and inmates.

Louis Theroux visits a newly opened legal brothel in Nevada called the Wild Horse.

In 2001, Louis Theroux decides to set out on a journey to interview Michael Jackson. When Michael comes to the UK, Louis approaches Uri Geller but gets turned down. He then finds out that ITV has been granted an interview and Louis sets out for LA to meet a close friend of the Jackson family, promoter and magician Majestik Magnificent, who claims he can set up an interview with Joe Jackson, Michael's father. However nothing seems to go easily for Louis and his target seems further away. (imdb)

Louis visits several privately owned reserves in South Africa where American tourists pay to hunt wild animals. (Marco van Hoof)

Louis struggles to come to terms with the infamous family who picket the funerals of soldiers in protest against an America that tolerates homosexuality.

A TV documentary written and presented by Louis Theroux about the people and doctors involved in plastic surgery operations.

Louis has gained access to Coalinga Mental Hospital in California, which houses more than 500 of the most disturbed criminals in America, convicted paedophiles. Most have already served lengthy prison sentences, but have been deemed unsafe for release. Instead, they have been sent here for an indefinite time. Spending time with those undergoing treatment, Louis wrestles with whether he can ever allow himself to believe men whose whole history is defined by deception and deceit. (BBC)

Louis Theroux takes a look at the increasing tendency in the US to medicate young children.

Central Valley, California, is home to some of the most impoverished rural towns in America, where crystal meth addiction is prolific. In Fresno, Louis finds a community ravaged by this cheap and highly addictive drug. (BBC)

Loius returns to the Phelps family to find that several members have left the cult, and that they are being sued. (imdb)

Louis Theroux visits a small group of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers. (imdb)

In the first episode of this two-part series, Louis spends time in one of the most notorious sections of Miami County Jail: the fifth and sixth floor of 'Main Jail', where many of the most volatile inmates are incarcerated. Louis Theroux concludes his exploration into Miami Mega-jail, one of America's largest and most violent of jails, a holding pen for almost 6000 un-convicted inmates. (bbc.co.uk)

Louis visits one of the best schools in America for autism. He meets the students and their families to get a glimpse of what life is like for them and to experience the pleasures and the strains of one of the most extraordinary kinds of relationship. (bbc.co.uk)

In 1997, Louis made a documentary on the booming Californian porn industry. In 2012, he returns to find an industry that has been decimated by illegal Internet tube sites. (imdb)

Louis Theroux visits a retirement community and people that live at home who are suffering from dementia in Phoenix, Arizona.

The programme follows Theroux as he travels to the United States to meet people who own animals normally found in Africa and Asia, including big cats and dangerous primates. In the programme, Theroux visits GW Exotic Animal Foundation in Oklahoma.

One of the installments in the Louis Theroux Law and Disorder Series (imdb)

One of the installments in the Louis Theroux Law and Disorder Series

One of the earlier installments in the Louis Theroux Lawn and Disorder Film Series

Louis spends time with Neil and Christine Hamilton - the disgraced politicians who appear to live off publicity. (imdb)

Louis spends a week with Jimmy Savile and attempts to get behind the public persona. (imdb)

Louis Theroux travels to spend a few weeks with former boxer and current dandy Chris Eubank. (imdb)

Louis Theroux spends time with English publicist Max Clifford.

Louis Theroux spends a week with 1980s showbiz couple and once the indisputable king and queen of British light entertainment - TV magician, Paul Daniels and wife, Debbie McGee. (abc.net.au)

Journalist Louis Theroux spends some time with Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe and finds out what makes her tick. (imdb)

Louis meets the ventriloquist who no longer enjoys the TV light entertainment limelight (and can't hide his bitterness about that) but is still earning a good living. He has a flashy car, an ex-model wife, a large home and a role in Crewe's pantomime. (wikipedia)

The celebrities profiled by Louis Theroux in the documentary series "When Louis Met..." reflect on their time with Louis and he gives his thoughts on them. (imdb)

Louis investigates Ohio's state psychiatric hospitals, meeting patients who have committed crimes but have been found not guilty by reason of insanity. (imdb)

Louis meets children of different ages who are all experiencing transgender issues, speaking to their families about the condition and how they are dealing with it.

Micheal Moore presents a humorous newsmagazine that focuses primarily on wrongdoing by big business, privileged society and right-wing politicians. (imdb)

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. (bbc.co.uk)

Louis documents his investigation into what goes on behind the scenes of the infamous church of scientology. (imdb)

Louis Theroux tries to understand how Jimmy Savile was able to get away with his crimes. (BBC)

Louis Theroux visits three American cities and examines a uniquely devastating human crisis in each - heroin addiction, sex trafficking and murder. (BBC)

This film sees Louis Theroux embed himself in two of London's biggest adult eating-disorder treatment facilities. (BBC)

Louis Theroux explores the unusual ways modern America deals with birth, love and death. (imdb)

Louis Theroux heads to the USA to meet college students accused of sexual assault. (imdb)

Louis Theroux visits specialist psychiatric units which treat mothers experiencing serious mental illness whilst allowing them to live alongside their babies (imdb).

Louis Theroux returns to visit the Westboro Baptist Church in the wake of the death of its leader. (imdb)

Meet women in UK, legally providing sexual services, either to make a living or to supplement their income, potentially earning hundreds of pounds per hour. (imdb)

A four-part series in which Louis Theroux looks back over his past documentaries and interviewees, catches up with some of them, and reflects on the themes he sees as standing out across his body of work.

This special sees Louis travel to America to investigate the story of a man who has become one of the most controversial and captivating icons of recent times: the gun-toting, self-described 'gay hillbilly' and 'Tiger King' Joe Exotic.

Travelling the length and breadth of the United States, Louis will meet an assortment of content creators who promote far-right views, self-destructive performers - and in some cases alleged predators - whose work involves them promoting and enacting the most risqué, immoral and illegal behaviour.

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.