All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Food Cartographers

    • December 10, 2014
    • ESPN

    Ethan Welty and Caleb Philips are looking to solve world hunger and change the functionality of city agriculture by showing that sometimes there's a large diversity of food available to anyone globally-all we need to do is look.

  • S01E02 Political Action

    • January 14, 2015
    • ESPN

    Dana R. Fisher, sociologist, is studying how citizens engage with the democratic process. By analyzing protests, Dana hopes to uncover the state and evolution of the general populous' political dissent and satisfaction outside of the bipartisan system.

  • S01E03 The Beekeeper

    • February 11, 2015
    • ESPN

    A bee is not a bee. A bee is part of a 30,000-member colony, all of whom are working together. And the 2.5 million colonies in the United States are helping to provide us with $18 billion dollars worth of food--one in every three bites we take comes from bees.

  • S01E04 Good Humor

    • April 8, 2015
    • ESPN

    Meet Peter McGraw, humorist and psychologist, who has traveled the world to decipher the universal properties of humor. After completing his journey, Pete has embarked on a new project: improving peoples' lives by making them funnier.

  • S01E05 Musicology

    • May 27, 2015
    • ESPN

    Meet Nolan Gasser, Musicologist and Architect of the Music Genome Project. Nolan has dedicated his life to music - composing, analyzing, and leading the research behind the global music radio phenomenon, Pandora.

  • S01E06 Cannabis Chemist

    • July 22, 2015
    • ESPN

    Meet Chris Hudalla, an analytical chemist fighting to make medical marijuana a legitimate source of therapy for chronic illness. Using the most cutting-edge technologies in the world, Chris analyzes and evaluates the quality and integrity of marijuana samples from around the New England area.

  • S01E07 Tree Hunter

    • August 26, 2015
    • ESPN

    Is there an answer to the epic four-year drought that has befallen California? It may be found in the rings of trees studied by Dan Griffin, the subject of this piece in ESPN Films' Collectors series.

  • S01E08 The Case for De-Extinction

    • November 25, 2015
    • ESPN

    Follows Archer as he collects bones, DNA and the vital data of the extinct Tasmanian Tiger. Archer hopes that he can restore nature to a more pristine state. But, to paraphrase Ian Malcolm, even if we can bring back Eden, that doesn’t mean we should.

  • S01E09 Undefeated

    • December 16, 2015
    • ESPN

    Pulaski Academy football coach Kevin Kelley never punts. He always kicks on-side. His teams play … weirdly. Now the Arkansas squad is going back to Dallas to face its rival, Highland Park, a team that has won 84 games in a row at home and outplayed Pulaski Academy last year. Will Kelley’s data-driven plays lead to the win? Follow Pulaski as the team adds a new wrinkle to its playbook and tries to end Highland Park’s streak.