In
this collection, award-winning presenter Louis Theroux steps out for some of his
most dangerous and illuminating documentaries yet. Through intense, personal and
revealing interviews, Louis gets to the heart of the issues of the times.
PHILADELPHIA
Louis
Theroux signs up for his most dangerous assignment yet - patrolling the crime
ridden streets of Philadelphia with the local law enforcement. During his time
spent with the local cops in an area that has over 400 homicides a year, drug
dealers on every corner and where carrying a gun is part of everyday life he sees
a complex picture evolve: yes, there are good guys, bad guys, guns and violence
but there is also tenderness and compassion found in the most unexpected of places.
JOHANNESBURG
Louis
travels to Johannesburg, where the residents find themselves increasingly besieged
by crime. Despairing of the capability of the police and the courts to protect
them, many residents have turned to an industry of private security offering protection
for a price. Are the sometimes brutal methods of these private police really a
solution, or just another part of the problem?
A PLACE FOR PAEDOPHILES
Nominated
for the Best Single Documentary at the 2010 Bafta awards
Louis Theroux meets
patients and therapists at California's Coalinga Mental Hospital which houses
more than 500 of the most disturbed criminals in America - convicted paedophiles.
Could these men - whose history of sexual violence is often long and ingrained
- ever be sufficiently changed by therapy to justify their release?
CRYSTAL
METH
Louis Theroux visits Central Valley, California -home to some of
the most impoverished rural towns in America, where crystal-meth addiction is
among the most prolific in the USA. In Fresno, Louis finds a community ravaged
by this cheap and highly addictive drug. It is hard to find anyone whose life
hasn't been touched by this drug in one way or another. As he infiltrates the
town, Louis comes face to face with meth abuse as addicts invite him into their
homes. He becomes surrounded by the madness of daily addiction and the meth-addled
confusion which is breaking this society apart. It's addiction laid bare as Louis
seeks out the stories and the people behind the drug.
Royal Television Society
Programme Awards 2010 - Best Presenter
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Theroux: Law & Order' is available now.