Louis Theroux
1970 (55 лет)After graduating from Oxford University, Theroux moved to the US and worked as a journalist for Metro Silicon Valley and Spy. He moved into television as the presenter of offbeat segments on Michael Moore's TV Nation series and later began to host his own documentaries, including Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, When Louis Met..., and several BBC Two specials.
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Louis Theroux: Extreme Love - Autism
Jamie Pickup
Louis Theroux
The documentary is the first part of Theroux's Extreme Love, along with Extreme Love: Dementia. Theroux visits the DLC Warren school in New Jersey, one of the best schools in the United States for autism.
Louis Theroux: Extreme Love - Autism
Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America
Geoffrey O'Connor
Louis Theroux, Fred Phelps
Louis meets the Phelps family — the people at the heart of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church. The Phelps have rabid anti-homosexual beliefs, and often campaign at the funerals of American soldiers. They believe that every tragedy in the world is God's punishment for homosexuality.
Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America
Louis Theroux: Louis and the Nazis
Stuart Cabb
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.
Louis Theroux: Louis and the Nazis
Louis Theroux: Drinking to Oblivion
Tom Barrow
Louis Theroux
Louis spends time at King's College Hospital in London where he immerses himself in the lives of patients in the grips of alcohol addiction and the medical staff trying to make them better.
Louis Theroux: Drinking to Oblivion
Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis
Emma Cooper
Louis Theroux, Fred Phelps
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. He again joins the Phelps family on their controversial pickets where they try to antagonise communities with offensive slogans and anti-gay placards. But four years on from Louis's last visit, there are signs of disarray in the Phelps clan. A series of defections of family members has shaken up the church.
Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis
Louis Theroux: Gambling in Las Vegas
Stuart Cabb
Louis Theroux
Louis heads to Las Vegas, to reveal the world behind the myths of casino culture. Among the people he meets are two of the casino's 'high-rollers' and an employee who looks after them as well as a retired doctor who says she has gambled away $4million in seven years.
Louis Theroux: Gambling in Las Vegas
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends: Swingers
Geoffrey O'Connor
Louis Theroux
Louis delves into a sub culture of middle-class couples in California who embrace all the core values of America except one - monogamy. They call themselves "members of the lifestyle", or "swingers".
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends: Swingers
Louis Theroux: Talking to Anorexia
Ellena Wood
Louis Theroux
Anorexia, the pathological fear of eating and gaining weight, is now the most deadly mental illness in the UK, affecting around one in every 250 women. In this film, Louis Theroux embeds himself in two of London's biggest adult eating-disorder treatment facilities: St Ann's Hospital and Vincent Square Clinic. As he spends more time with patients both on and off the wards, he witnesses the dangerous power that anorexia holds over them, and finds himself drawn into a complex relationship between the disorder and the person it inhabits.
Louis Theroux: Talking to Anorexia
Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth
Geoffrey O'Connor
Louis Theroux
Join Louis Theroux as he investigates the affect crystal meth addiction is having on the local community of Fresno in California's Central Valley.
Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth
Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists
Andy Wells
Louis Theroux
Louis Theroux spends time with a small and very committed subculture of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers. He discovers a group of people who consider it their religious and political obligation to populate some of the most sensitive areas of the West Bank, especially those with a spiritual significance dating back to the Bible. Throughout his journey, Louis gets close to the people most involved with driving the extreme end of the Jewish settler movement - finding them warm, friendly, humorous, and deeply troubling.
Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists
