Louis

Louis immerses himself in the world of Ohio’s state psychiatric hospitals, meeting patients who have committed crimes – at times horrifically violent – while in the grip of severe mental illness. They have been found not guilty by reason of insanity and ordered by the courts to secure psychiatric facilities to receive the treatment that it is hoped will, one day, lead to their reintegration back into society. In this first of two parts, Louis spends time with patients attempting to come to terms with their crimes and the clinicians entrusted with helping to make them safe. And he investigates the difficult question – when is a patient with a serious crime in their past ready to be returned to the outside world?

From Japan to America, the LV sign dominates the fashion scene. And, one man alone designs the Louis Vuitton creations the exceptional Marc Jacobs.

Built in 1852, San Quentin is one of America's oldest prisons and suffers from chronic overcrowding. Although famous for its death row the prison's main task is to house a transient population of 3,000 murderers, sexual predators and small-time criminals. Louis spends two weeks with these inmates and quickly discovers that they inhabit a strange world within a world with its own rules and its own brutal code of conduct. He meets amongst others David Silva who is serving 521 years and 11 life sentences and is locked down for 23 hours a day. Silva's crimes as he describes them 'would never be forgotten' and he talks of how he faces up to the prospect of never leaving prison.

For hundreds of years, romantic relationships in western society have been based on the idea of monogamy: two people, together, for ever. But with nearly half of all US marriages ending in divorce, perhaps the traditional model is no longer fit for purpose. In Love Without Limits, Louis travels to Portland, Oregon, the heart of a movement seeking to rewrite the rulebook on how we conduct intimate relationships and experience family life. Portland, whose city motto is 'Keep Portland Weird', is seen as the US capital of polyamory and ethical non-monogamy, the practice of openly and transparently having multiple relationships that go further than just sex.

Louis Theroux heads to California, the US adoption capital, where the majority of newborn adoptions are carried out privately, creating a multimillion dollar industry. Agencies, facilitators and lawyers can earn thousands of dollars per baby by matching up pregnant women prepared to give up their newborns with adoptive parents willing to pay up to $50,000 for the privilege. Louis spends time with the birth mothers preparing to hand over their own flesh and blood, uncovering the stories of poverty, addiction and abuse that can push these women into making such a heartbreaking decision.

Quinze années versaillaises racontées en trois actes : le temps que Louis XVI découvre le malheur de devenir roi, dans un portrait au scalpel délivré des clichés prévisibles et des frasques familières d'une reine qui a souvent focalisé la lumière sur elle. Un roi de 20 ans sensible aux maux de la France et à l'urgence de réformes profondes. Ce film s'achève avec la fermeture des grilles qui coupent à jamais Louis XVI et sa famille du lieu de pouvoir de la monarchie. Laissant s'écrire ailleurs la révolution, l'emprisonnement, la mort annoncée d'un roi malgré lui.

Der Franzose Antoine hat in seinem Urlaub in Italien einen Unfall: Mit seinem Wagen, einem 2CV, stößt er mit der Luxuskarosse des Großindustriellen Saroyan zusammen. Da Antoine an diesem Unfall nicht Schuld war, darf er nun in Saroyans Wagen nach Frankreich fahren – er weiß aber nicht, daß er eigentlich Schmuggelware über die Grenze, die es damals zwischen Italien und Frankreich noch gab, bringen soll.

Following up on his 2007 documentary, The Most Hated Family in America, Louis Theroux returns to Topeka, Kansas, for a week-long visit with the Westboro Baptist Church.
* First broadcast: BBC Two, 9:00PM Sunday, 3 April, 2011