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*.

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*.