Louis and the Nazis is a British documentary

Documentary film

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 that was televised on 21 December 2003. It was directed by Stuart Cabb and written by Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux

Louis Sebastian Theroux is an English broadcaster best known for his Gonzo style journalism on the television series Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends and When Louis Met.... His career started off in journalism and bears influences of notable writers in his family such as his father, Paul Theroux and...

. The documentary ran for 80 minutes.

Louis travels to California to meet the man dubbed "the most dangerous racist in America", Tom Metzger

Tom Metzger

Thomas Metzger is an American white nationalist who founded White Aryan Resistance . His far-right activist groups, including WAR, have been monitored by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an American organization that tracks hate groups...

. Louis meets him, his family and his publicity manager as well as following him to skinhead rallies and on a visit to Mexico. He also encounters the Nazi-pop folk duo Prussian Blue

Prussian blue

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 and their mother and maternal grandfather. Louis Theroux would revisit the subjects of the documentary in his book The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures.

Reception

The New Zealand Listener

New Zealand Listener

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described the documentary "Louis and the Nazis is the most brilliant TV programme I wish I’d never seen." The Times

Times

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described the documentary as "sinister and unsettling". The Guardian gave the program a positive review also.