Watch Louis Theroux documentaries

BBC Select is the place to watch Louis Theroux documentaries if you’re in the US or Canada. Join the popular British filmmaker as he meets many extraordinary people around the world. Experience plenty of awkward encounters as well as incredibly powerful and moving moments.

Stream some of the best Louis Theroux documentaries with BBC Select including the following Louis Theroux documentary films and series:

Travelling across the United States, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux sees how the internet and social media has impacted some of the most controversial corners of American society. From those promoting far-right ideas, those in a violent and chaotic rap scene and adult film performers claiming victimization by the industry. All use the internet to reach their audience, all push the boundaries of acceptability.

Watch Louis Theroux: Forbidden America on BBC Select today. Restrictions apply*.

Louis Theroux meets Oscar-winner Judi at her home for a candid and lively conversation about her long career, her passion for theatre and her life away from acting. Having graced the stage and screen for over 60 years, including iconic turns as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love and MI5 chief M in the James Bond films, Judi Dench is regarded as one of Britain’s greatest ever actors.

Watch Louis Theroux Interviews… Dame Judi Dench on BBC Select today. Restrictions apply*.

Milwaukee is said to be one of the most racially divided and impoverished cities in the US. With spiraling murder rates, it encapsulates America’s complex relationship with guns and the increasing disharmony between African-American communities and the police.

Louis Theroux spends time with the Milwaukee Police Department as they patrol District 5, home to some of the nation’s deadliest streets.

Watch Louis Theroux: Dark States – Murder in Milwaukee on BBC Select today. Restrictions apply*.

Shockingly, there are more tigers captive in America than there are wild in the rest of the world. What drives people to collect rare and dangerous animals as pets? In 2011, the British filmmaker met breeder and collector Joe Exotic (Tiger King) at his Oklahoma zoo while investigating exactly that. He also visits the woman who privately owns one of the US’s largest collections of chimpanzees.

Watch Louis Theroux: Beware of the Tiger on BBC Select today. Restrictions apply*.

Anorexia has the highest death rate of any psychiatric disorder in the US. The pathological fear of eating and gaining weight affects around one in every 250 women, and for some it can be a lifelong battle.

Filmmaker Louis Theroux visits two of London’s biggest adult eating-disorder treatment facilities – St Ann’s Hospital and Vincent Square Clinic – to try to understand this mysterious illness in this insightful documentary.

Watch Louis Theroux: Talking to Anorexia and more acclaimed documentaries on BBC Select today. Restrictions apply*.

From UFO hunting to nattering with Neo-Nazis, filmmaker Louis Theroux has become synonymous with stories involving extreme subcultures and people on the fringes of society. Now, Louis is looking back on 25 years in the TV trenches, reflecting on and reconnecting with some of his most fascinating subjects from the past. Have any of these radical personalities changed their approach to life?

Watch Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge on BBC Select today. Restrictions apply*.

After the revelation that Jimmy Savile was a predatory sex offender, and 16 years after his BAFTA-winning documentary When Louis Met… Jimmy Savile first aired, Louis Theroux sets out to understand how a man who was at the center of British entertainment was able to get away with a long litany of horrendous crimes.

In this Jimmy Savile documentary, Louis speaks with Savile’s victims and scrutinizes moments from the original documentary and footage that has never been aired before.

Watch Louis Theroux: Jimmy Savile Revisited and more acclaimed documentaries on BBC Select today. Restrictions apply*.

Voted one of the top 50 documentaries of all time by Channel 4, Louis Theroux spends a week with now-known pedophile and sex offender Jimmy Savile prior to his death and public disgrace.

In this 2000 BAFTA-winning documentary, Theroux attempts to get behind the public persona and raises the now-substantiated rumors of pedophilia.

Watch When Louis Met … Jimmy Savile and more acclaimed documentaries on BBC Select today. Restrictions apply*.

They pickete soldiers at funerals, hate gay people and lament America’s moral decline. That’s the Phelps family, some of whom are six years old, who make up most the 71-strong congregation of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Louis Theroux spends time with the family and Steve Drain, a fellow documentary-maker who was so touched by their extreme message that he joined the church.

Watch this Louis Theroux Westboro Baptist Church documentary on BBC Select today. Restrictions apply*.

13 years on from the first Louis Theroux Westboro Baptist Church documentary, when he met the Phelps family, whose noxious doctrine of hate against gay people and US soldiers made them infamous. Quite a lot changed for the community in Donald Trump’s America: Pastor Fred Phelps died in 2014 amid rumors of mental illness and excommunication. Louis returns to the story and meets Megan Phelps-Roper to see what happened next.

Watch Surviving America’s Most Hated Family on BBC Select today. Restrictions apply*.

With online booking, reviews, and lashings of social-media interaction so customers can try before they buy, the sex trade is more accessible than ever. New technologies help sex workers to vet their clients in safety. But at what emotional cost? Should sex ever be as easy to book as an Uber? Awkwardly charming investigator Louis Theroux passes no judgement but his eyebrows do the talking in this modern sex trade documentary.

Watch Louis Theroux: Selling Sex on BBC Select today. Restrictions apply*.

If you knew that drinking was killing you, would you still do it? That’s the question posed in this gut-wrenchingly open and honest look at alcohol addiction from Britain’s boundary-pushing filmmaker. Louis Theroux spends time at King’s College Hospital in London – a specialist liver centre. Here, he meets patients in the grip of addiction and the medical staff trying to make them better.

Watch Louus Theroux: Drinking to Oblivion on BBC Select today. Restrictions apply*.

America is struggling to process its growing criminal class – which is why mega-jails such as this one in Miami are springing up. It’s a transitory place for those not yet sentenced – 6,000 prisoners, from some of America’s most dangerous men to those who have yet to see a court room. The British filmmaker gets up close to its inmates in an unflinching portrait of hell in the US penal system.

Watch Louis Theroux: Miami Mega-jail on BBC Select today. Restrictions apply*.

Stream all these Louis Theroux series and documentary films on BBC Select:

• Louis Theroux: Altered States – Choosing Death
• Louis Theroux: Altered States – Love Without Limits
• Louis Theroux: Altered States – Take My Baby
• Louis Theroux: Beware of the Tiger
• Louis Theroux: Drinking to Oblivion
• Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge
• Louis Theroux: Miami Mega-Jail
• Louis Theroux: Selling Sex
• Louis Theroux: Talking to Anorexia
• Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America
• Louis Theroux: The Return of America’s Most Hated Family
• Louis Theroux: Surviving America’s Most Hated Family
• Louis Theroux: Under the Knife
• Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists