Most enlightening Documentaries
by sarah_corden | created - 01 Dec 2015 | updated - 01 Dec 2015 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Yellowstone (2009– )
50 min | Documentary
Filmed over the course of a year in Yellowstone, this documentary tracks the area's wildlife as they grapple with life and death within one of America's last remaining wilderness regions.
Stars: Peter Firth, Mary Beth Schwartz, Jeff Henry, Dick Powell
Votes: 1,880
2. Planet Earth (2006)
TV-PG | 49 min | Documentary, Family
A documentary series on the wildlife found on Earth. Each episode covers a different habitat: deserts, mountains, deep oceans, shallow seas, forests, caves, polar regions, fresh water, plains and jungles. Narrated by David Attenborough.
Stars: Sigourney Weaver, David Attenborough, Nikolay Drozdov, Thomas Anguti Johnston
Votes: 219,980
3. Human Planet (2011)
TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary
A cinematic experience bringing you the most amazing human stories in the world. Humans and wildlife surviving in the most extreme environments on Earth
Stars: John Hurt, Roger Munns
Votes: 27,778
4. Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends (1998–2000)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary
Louis Theroux documents some of the US's most bizarre happenings, events and rituals, by getting involved himself.
Stars: Louis Theroux, David Paul, J.J. Michaels, Randy James
Votes: 3,328
5. Louis Theroux (2003– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Documentary
A series of documentary films presented by Louis Theroux.
Star: Louis Theroux
Votes: 154
6. Louis Theroux: Behind Bars (2008 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
For two weeks, Theroux visits the San Quentin State Prison.
Director: Stuart Cabb | Star: Louis Theroux
Votes: 2,129
7. Louis Theroux: A Place for Paedophiles (2009 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary
Louis visits Coalinga Mental Hospital in California, home to over 500 convicted paedophiles, and spends some time with those undergoing treatment.
Director: Emma Cooper | Star: Louis Theroux
Votes: 2,264
8. Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids (2010 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary
Louis meets parents who have turned to medication to keep their children under control.
Director: Danny Horan | Star: Louis Theroux
Votes: 1,504
9. Louis Theroux: Extreme Love - Autism (2012 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary
Louis travels to DLC Warren in New Jersey, an innovative autism school.
Director: Jamie Pickup | Stars: Louis Theroux, Josephine Engelhardt, Matt Fernandez, Mary Ingrassia
Votes: 1,436
10. Louis Theroux: Gambling in Las Vegas (2007 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary
Louis Theroux goes to the heart of gambling culture in Las Vegas.
Director: Stuart Cabb | Stars: Louis Theroux, Richard Wilk
Votes: 1,490
11. Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars (2012 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
In 1997, Louis made a documentary on the booming Californian porn industry. In 2012, he returns to find an industry that has been decimated by illegal Internet tube sites.
Director: Jason Massot | Stars: Louis Theroux, Xander Corvus, Brad Armstrong, Alexa Nicole
Votes: 1,686
12. Louis Theroux: Under the Knife (2007 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Louis Theroux gets under the skin of the plastic surgery patients of Beverly Hills.
Director: Emma Cooper | Stars: Stuart Linder, Louis Theroux
Votes: 1,528
13. Louis Theroux: America's Most Dangerous Pets (2011 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary
In America's heartlands, Louis looks at private collections of tigers and chimpanzees.
Director: Jamie Pickup | Stars: Louis Theroux, Joe Exotic, John Reinke, Tim Stark
Votes: 1,164
14. Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity (2015– )
60 min | Documentary
Louis investigates Ohio's state psychiatric hospitals, meeting patients who have committed crimes but have been found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Stars: Michael G. Borack, Indre Rukseniene, Jonathan, Brian
Votes: 1,257
15. Louis Theroux: Extreme Love - Dementia (2012 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary
Louis travels to Phoenix, Arizona - the capital of dementia care.
Director: Dan Child | Stars: Louis Theroux, Janet Cottrell, Dawn Grant, Glenn Border
Votes: 985
16. Louis Theroux: Miami Mega Jail (2011– )
120 min | Documentary
Louis spends time in one of Miami County Jail's most notorious sections
Star: Louis Theroux
Votes: 1,435
17. Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth (2009 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
British documentarian Louis Theroux examines the toll meth has taken on several addicts in Fresno, California.
Director: Geoffrey O'Connor | Star: Louis Theroux
Votes: 1,326
18. Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Louis Theroux visits a small group of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers.
Director: Andy Wells | Stars: Louis Theroux, Yair Lieberman, Daniel Luria
Votes: 1,213
19. Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids (2015 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary
Louis Theroux travels to San Francisco where a group of doctors help kids who claim to be born in the wrong body.
Director: Tom Barrow | Stars: Louis Theroux, Camille, Casey, Eduardo
Votes: 1,304
20. The Weird World of Louis Theroux (2007 TV Movie)
68 min | Documentary
Louis Theroux narrates a compilation of clips from his documentaries.
Directors: Helen Sage, Stuart Cabb, Daniel Elias, Guy Gilbert, Alicia Kerr, Geoffrey O'Connor, Ed Robbins, Catey Sexton, Kate Townsend, Will Yapp | Stars: Louis Theroux, Robert Black, DeWayne Bruce, Jessica Callan
Votes: 194
21. The Dark Matter of Love (2012)
Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary
Documentary on the psychological aspects of growing up with and without parental love. It centers around the Diaz family, who chooses to adopt three orphans from Russia, and how their new and old kids handle family together.
Director: Sarah McCarthy | Stars: Caitlyn Maria Diaz, Camilena Anna Diaz, Cayden Marcel Diaz, Cheryl Diaz
Votes: 921
22. Life Below Zero (2012)
Documentary
You're a Canadian but you hate Winter? We used to be God's Frozen People and proud of it. Have we gone soft and lost our "winter edge"? At last, the true story of growing up cold in Canada, Russia and Scandinavia.
Director: Josh Freed
Votes: 45
23. Odyssey of Life (1996 TV Movie)
186 min | Documentary
From inside the human body and the miracle of developing life to an insects world seen from the point of view of the insect, cinematographer 'Lennart Nilsson' shows us the world in new ways... See full summary »
Director: Mikael Agaton | Stars: David Ogden Stiers, Bo Moller, Hans Wigzell, Klaus Renner
Votes: 64
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