Yahoo News Louis Theroux curates a documentary series for iPlayer
Louis Theroux will be letting us dive inside his mind this summer as he curates a documentary series for BBC iPlayer.
Theroux has gone through the BBC archives and selected the films that have moved, entertained and influenced him.
The series will be accompanied by a new film, Louis Theroux: Docs That Made Me, where he explains why he chose each of the documentaries and how they have inspired his work.
Speaking about the project, Theroux said: "It is an absolute privilege to be able to be part of sharing these wonderful, powerful documentaries. Each of them had an impact on me in a different way.
"They cover 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. I hope BBC iPlayer viewers enjoy them as much as I have."
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The oldest doc in the collection is 1975's Inside Story: Mini, which follows an 11-year-old arsonist who twice attempted to burn down his parents' house.
There's also 1987's Fourteen Days In May, about Edward Earl Johnson, a man on Florida's death row who is approaching his execution date while appealing his sentence in the US courts.
Of Fourteen Days In May, Theroux said: "Many documentaries that are terrific come and go but this one is one that I think most people involved in documentaries will have seen and would agree that it's a powerful and important piece of storytelling."
The full list of docs is as follows:
Inside Story: Mini (1975)
Fourteen Days In May (1987)
Storyville: Philip And His Seven Wives (2006)
Rain In My Heart (2006)
Between Life And Death (2010)
Exposed: Magicians, Psychics & Frauds (2014)
Life And Death Row - Truth (2016)
The Louis Theroux: Docs That Made Me collection is now available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
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