Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Lagos

Renowned documentarian Louis Theroux dived into the BBC Archives and selected his favourite documentaries. Each of them had an impact on Louis and explains why he chose the documentaries and how they have inspired his work.. Covering a range of styles - some vérité-driven, others told more through interview - but in all of them you see life at its most raw, its most strange and therefore its most human.

Meet women in UK, legally providing sexual services, either to make a living or to supplement their income, potentially earning hundreds of pounds per hour.

1st LUVITA FAN-CONCERT 〈AWAKENING〉

Naturists celebrate Halloween by having a party at Little Boxes Theater.

The final creative chapter of one of music’s most iconic artists. Featuring rare interviews with those who knew and worked alongside Bowie as well as famous fans and figures who have been inspired by his artistry, the film will uncover the strategy behind Bowie’s artistic resurrection and the inexhaustible extraordinary creativity that defined his final decade, in which he released his critically acclaimed album Blackstar just two days before he died. This was an emergence from the turbulence of the 1990s, when Bowie had found himself at odds with a changing industry but pushed on to headline Glastonbury in 2000.

A group of naturists book a private nature retreat.

Hitlers Gipfelstürmer

Fliegende Bauten

The Living Weapon

The veiled story of Japanese diaspora in Mexico and the endurable impact of historic silence in its descendants is portrayed through testimonies and an exploration of landscape and choreography, questioning the formation and theatricality of individual and collective identity. When everything that's left of history are memories, how are invisible wounds healed? Yurei goes through different zones in Mexico towards an exploration of memory.

Made between 2021 and 2022, the medium-length film pays homage to the eponymous work by artist León Ferrari, a literary collage created between 1965 and 1967 in the context of the Vietnam War: it replicates its method through a montage of archives from the confinement caused by the pandemic. What do we do with the information debris that passes through our bodies? From this question, the filmmaker composes an ecology of the image/archive, recycling alienating, banal, ridiculous, excessive, and/or hateful spam in the face of other voices of resistance.

In 1971, a group of young female soccer players filled Mexico City's Azteca Stadium with 115,000 spectators to play the final match of the Second Women's World Cup. This documentary features their exceptional and forgotten story.

A portrait of the actress Isabella Rossellini as an artist, farmer, author, and inspiration. Shot over a single season, A Season with Isabella Rossellini unveils Rossellini's unique charm, following her on the set of Alice Rohrwacher's La Chimera in Italy; rehearsing her monologue for Darwin's Smile in France and Spain; sitting for a beauty commercial in Los Angeles on her 70th birthday; and back home at her 28-acre farm, Mama Farm, in New York.

Making of 'La confiance règne'

In a personal documentary, the director confronts an identity crisis triggered by the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The director returns to Ukraine to explore her linguistic roots. In her family's village, she speaks Surzhik with her grandmother. Moving to Kharkiv, she sees the war's impact and discusses language dynamics with her mother, who urges her to switch to Ukrainian. This journey highlights the complex relationship between identity and language.

A look at the British Olympic bobsleigh team as they practise at St Moritz for the World Championships at Cortina in Italy.

The mechanics of a love story that ends badly.

A look into hairstyles, as well as wigs.

A visit to the Lord Mayor's Show in London with an interesting look at the office of the Mayor in Britain.