Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux looks back at his earliest documentaries and explores how some people's most fervent beliefs can bring them into conflict with mainstream society.

Journalist Louis Theroux looks back at 25 years of documentaries and explores how America has managed to take our darkest desires and commodify them.

The film-maker looks back on his documentaries about the criminal justice system in the US. Louis reflects on his reports on the prison system, which exposed a world with its own rules and codes and a system that seemed to be broken. He also revisits the documentaries he shot in Philadelphia and Milwaukee, where tensions between the African-American community and the police were already at boiling point years before the death of George Floyd.

A decade on, Louis revisits Joe Exotic - 'gay hillbilly', convicted felon and cult figure. He digs deep into Joe's background, meets Carole Baskin and asks what made the Tiger King.