Sort by Number of Votes - Most Rated Movies and TV Shows With Mark Olsen
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1. Crash Course: World History (2012–2015)
10 min | Documentary, Comedy, History
An educational series hosted by the Brothers Green. John leads us through the humanities while Hank takes us on a journey through the sciences.
Stars: John Green, Stan Muller, Danica Johnson, Raoul Meyer
Votes: 343
2. Vlogbrothers (2007– )
Documentary, Comedy, Music
Two brothers who reconnected via YouTube and now connect with hundreds of thousands of awesome people every day.
Stars: Hank Green, John Green, Katherine Green, Sarah Urist Green
Votes: 292
3. SciShow (2012– )
Documentary, Talk-Show
Exploring the unexpected, into the scientific subjects that defy expectations.
Stars: Hank Green, Michael Aranda, Stefan Chin, Reid Reimers
Votes: 114
4. Crash Course: US History (2013–2014)
Documentary, History
John Green takes you through the history of the United States, from the beginning of the Spanish colonization to the Obama administration.
Stars: John Green, Stan Muller, Danica Johnson, Meredith Danko
Votes: 97
5. Crash Course: Literature (2012– )
Documentary
John Green takes you through well known and less well known books, explaining their background and what makes them important for literature.
Stars: John Green, Stan Muller
Votes: 54
6. mental_floss: The List Show (2013– )
Documentary, Short
John Green goes through a differently-themed list of interesting facts and trivia each week.
Stars: John Green, Paige Finch, Craig Benzine, Emily Graslie
Votes: 40
7. PBS Eons (2017– )
Documentary
PBS Eons shares the stories of Earth's ancient creatures from the first viruses up to the giant mammals that coexisted with humans including the stories of those humans.
Stars: Blake de Pastino, Kallie Moore, Hank Green, Michelle Barboza-Ramirez
Votes: 24
8. Crash Course: Government (2015– )
Documentary
The components of American government in its various levels are explored.
Stars: Craig Benzine, Mark Olsen, Stan Muller
Votes: 19
9. mental_floss: The Big Question (2014– )
Stars: Craig Benzine, Josh Sundquist, Elliott Morgan, Dave Goelz
Votes: 12
10. mental_floss: Misconceptions (2014– )
Documentary, Short
A weekly show where the Mental Floss crew debunks popular misconceptions.
Star: Elliott Morgan
Votes: 10
12. The Ruffians (2009)
19 min | Short, Adventure, Drama
Jim, dissatisfied with the office world and haunted by bizarre static noises, explores an underground tunnel by his work out of curiosity. Inside, he discovers a tribe of people, living the... See full summary »
Director: Travis Mills | Stars: Corey Busboom, Gordon Clark, George I. Cortright, Jennifer Daltilio
Votes: 8
13.
Crash Course: World History (2012–2015)
Episode:
Humans & Energy
(2014)
Documentary, Comedy, History
Director: Mark Olsen | Star: Stan Muller
Votes: 8
14.
Crash Course: World History (2012–2015)
Episode:
Who Started WW1?
(2014)
Documentary, Comedy, History
Director: Mark Olsen | Star: John Green
Votes: 8
16.
Crash Course: US History (2013–2014)
Episode:
Colonial America
(2013)
Documentary, History
Director: Stan Muller | Star: John Green
Votes: 6
17.
Crash Course: US History (2013–2014)
Episode:
The Constitution
(2013)
Documentary, History
Director: Stan Muller | Star: John Green
Votes: 6
18. Project for Awesome 2013 (2013 TV Special)
Reality-TV
Stars: John Green, Hank Green, Michael Aranda, Craig Benzine
19. Crash Course: Literature (2022– )
TV-G | Documentary
John Green argues that reading is about effectively communicating with other people. Unlike direct communication, writers have to communicate with strangers, through time and space. So how's that going to work?
Stars: John Green, Stan Muller
21. Project for Awesome 2014 (2014 TV Special)
Reality-TV
Stars: John Green, Hank Green, Michael Aranda, Valerie Barr
22. Project for Awesome 2016 (2016 TV Special)
Reality-TV
Stars: John Green, Hank Green, Autmun Anderson, Stephanie Bailis
24. That's Public Health (2021–2022)
A 20-part series examining the basics of important public health topics, created by APHA and Complexly Media
Stars: Deboki Chakravarti, Mighty Fine
25.
PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode:
The Trouble with Trilobites
(2017)
Not Rated | 7 min | Documentary
Trilobites are famous not just because they were so beautifully functional, or because they happened to preserve so well. They're known the world over because they were everywhere.
Director: Nicholas Jenkins | Star: Hank Green
26.
PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode:
When Did the First Flower Bloom?
(2017)
Documentary
During the Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs were more diverse, more fierce, and more strange than ever. But something else was happening under the feet of the terrible lizards: for the first time in history, there were flowers.
Director: Nicholas Jenkins | Star: Kallie Moore
27.
PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode:
The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures
(2017)
Not Rated | 4 min | Documentary
There are animals in the fossil record that challenge some of our most basic ideas about what animals are supposed to look like. If there ever was a monster on this planet that was worthy of the name, it might have been the Tully Monster.
Director: Nicholas Jenkins | Star: Blake de Pastino
28.
PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode:
Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers
(2017)
5 min | Documentary
If you take it as a given that extinct dinosaurs were all weird and wonderful, then you gotta at least consider that Stegosaurus was one of the weirdest and wonderfulest.
Director: Nicholas Jenkins | Star: Blake de Pastino
29.
PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode:
What Colors Were Dinosaurs?
(2017)
5 min | Documentary
We know a lot about dinosaurs but there's one question that has plagued paleontologists for decades: what color were they?
Director: Nicholas Jenkins | Star: Hank Green
30.
PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode:
The Story of Saberteeth
(2017)
5 min | Documentary
Smilodon was a fearsome Ice Age cat, the size of a modern-day tiger, that had a pair of fangs nearly 18 centimeters long. But it was only the last and largest of the great sabertooths: ... See full summary »
Director: Nicholas Jenkins | Star: Hank Green
31.
PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode:
That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
(2017)
Not Rated | 5 min | Documentary
What if we told you that there was a time when oxygen almost wiped out all life on Earth? 3 billion years ago, when the world was a place you'd never recognize, too much of a good thing almost ruined everything for everybody.
Director: Nicholas Jenkins | Star: Kallie Moore
32.
PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode:
The Biggest Thing That Ever Flew
(2017)
Not Rated | 5 min | Documentary
Today, we're familiar with two types of flying vertebrates -- birds and bats. But over 66 million years ago, there was a giraffe-sized reptile that soared through the sky.
Director: Nicholas Jenkins | Star: Kallie Moore
33.
PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode:
Dimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
(2017)
7 min | Documentary
Dimetrdons may look like giant lizards or dinosaurs. But they were really mammals, or at least proto-mammals, with features now common in mammals such as differentiated teeth.
Director: Nicholas Jenkins | Star: Hank Green
34.
PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode:
The Extinction That Never Happened
(2017)
Not Rated | 8 min | Documentary
Natural history is full of living things that were long thought to have gone extinct only to show up again, alive and well. Paleontologists have a word for these kinds of organisms: They call them Lazarus taxa.
Director: Nicholas Jenkins | Star: Hank Green
35.
PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode:
The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws
(2017)
4 min | Documentary
There are many fossils that challenge our ability to form even the most basic idea of how a living thing looked, or lived, or functioned. One of the longest-running of these mysteries ... See full summary »
Director: Nicholas Jenkins | Star: Blake de Pastino
36.
PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode:
The Age of Giant Insects
(2017)
Not Rated | 5 min | Documentary
Insects outnumber humans by a lot and we only like to think we're in charge because we're bigger than they are. But insects and other arthropods weren't always so small. About 315 million ... See full summary »
Director: Nicholas Jenkins | Star: Kallie Moore
37.
PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode:
History's Most Powerful Plants
(2017)
Not Rated | 5 min | Documentary
Fossil fuels are made from the remains of extinct organisms that have been exposed to millions of years of heat and pressure. But in the case of coal, these organisms consisted largely of ... See full summary »
Director: Nicholas Jenkins | Star: Kallie Moore
38.
PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode:
How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
(2017)
Not Rated | 6 min | Documentary
Part of why we're so fascinated with extinct dinosaurs it's just hard for us to believe that animals that huge actually existed. And yet, they existed. From the Jurassic to the Cretaceous ... See full summary »
Director: Nicholas Jenkins | Star: Hank Green
39.
PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode:
When The Earth Was Purple
(2017)
Not Rated | 5 min | Documentary
Besides the blue of the oceans, the dominant color of our planet, as we know it, is green. But imagine a time when the Earth looked a little - purple.
Director: Nicholas Jenkins | Star: Kallie Moore
40.
PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode:
Living Fossils Aren't Really a Thing
(2017)
Documentary
Director: Nicholas Jenkins | Star: Blake de Pastino
41.
SciShow (2012– )
Episode:
Did We Find Longitude Thanks To A... Clock?
(2021)
Documentary, Talk-Show
The equator is a clear and accurate line around Earth that makes measuring latitude a precise science, but when it came to figuring out how to do that with longitude, British sailors were at a loss. Until they devised a competition.
Star: Michael Aranda
42.
SciShow (2012– )
Episode:
Why Do Manatees Die When Power Plants Shut Down?
(2021)
Documentary, Talk-Show
While the Florida manatee is threatened by human activity in a myriad of ways, perhaps the most surprising among those threats is the closing of aging power plants.
Star: Michael Aranda
43.
SciShow (2012– )
Episode:
What Really Goes Into Storing Food for the Winter?
(2021)
Documentary, Talk-Show
When birds and squirrels cache food for the winter, it means they have to remember where to find that food later. Their strategies for finding their hidden feasts includes memory tricks and changing brains.
Star: Michael Aranda
44.
SciShow (2012– )
Episode:
Hydras Are What They Eat
(2021)
Documentary, Talk-Show
You may have to open your mouth pretty wide to take a bite of a burger, but a Hydra can tear open its mouth to devour food larger than itself.
Star: Michael Aranda
45.
SciShow (2012– )
Episode:
How Did North America End Up With a Marsupial?
(2021)
Documentary, Talk-Show
Both North and South America have their own species of marsupial, the opossum, but how they got so far away from their Australian relatives is a bit of a mystery.
Star: Michael Aranda
46.
SciShow (2012– )
Episode:
5 Weird Things That Can Catch Fire
(2021)
Documentary, Talk-Show
Fire: it's beautiful, it's dangerous, and it shows up in surprising places. Here are five weird things you might have on hand that can go up in flames.
Star: Michael Aranda
47.
SciShow (2012– )
Episode:
Why Do Itches Make You Chase Them?
(2022)
Documentary, Talk-Show
Have you ever said, "No, a little to the left," during a back scratch because the itch itself seemed to move? Well, it has to do with how your nerves and brain respond to the sensation.
Star: Michael Aranda
48.
SciShow (2012– )
Episode:
How to Avoid Corpse-Flavored Water
(2022)
Documentary, Talk-Show
As organisms decompose their chemical and bacterial components can leach into the surrounding ground and water. The bodies buried in cemeteries are no exception.
Star: Michael Aranda
49.
SciShow (2012– )
Episode:
Can Your Cat Change Color?
(2022)
Documentary, Talk-Show
Brown cats are something of a rarity, but you may have something pretty close.
Star: Michael Aranda
50.
SciShow (2012– )
Episode:
What Megalodon's Teeth Say About Their Parenting
(2021)
Documentary, Talk-Show
A shark's teeth usually says "stay away", but we can learn a lot from them, including what type of parents they were.
Star: Michael Aranda