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Louis Theroux looks for a crack under the mask of now-disgraced celebrity Jimmy Savile

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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.

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