30 Days

From experiencing the life of a former star athlete to living off the grid to dealing with alcoholism, 30 Days demonstrates all the ups and downs that people of different lifestyles face across the country.

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Can a Hunter Spend 30 Days as an Animal Rights Activist?

George Snedeker is an avid hunter who considers it much more than just a sport; to George, hunting is a way of life. George hunts mainly for deer meat and tries to use the entire animal in order not to + READ MORE

Can Morgan Spurlock Survive 30 Days Working In A Coal Mine?

Morgan Spurlock returns to his home state of West Virginia, to work as a rookie apprentice coal miner known as a "redhat" for 30 days. Morgan goes to Bolt, West Virginia and lives with Dale and Sandy Lusk. Dale, the + READ MORE

A Same Sex Parenting Opponent Lives with Domestic Partners and their 4 Adopted Sons for 30 Days

Kati believes that children should be raised by a mother and a father and not by same-sex parents. As the mother of two adopted sons Kati believes that she has ample experience to determine what kind of environment is conducive + READ MORE

A Former NFL Star Struggles with 30 Days of Life in a Wheelchair

Ray Crockett played football for Baylor University from 1984-88 before his NFL draft in 1989. He won two Super Bowl rings in 1998 and 1999 as a starting member of the Denver Broncos. During his fourteen years in the NFL, + READ MORE

Morgan Spurlock Spends Discovers Issues Facing Native Americans in 30 Days

Morgan Spurlock discovers what life is like for America's most indigenous people: Native Americans. As he heads west to Navajo Nation near Gallup, New Mexico, Morgan will realize just how little he knows about the issues facing this tribal culture. + READ MORE

Gun Control Advocate Spends 30 Days at the Heart of Gun Culture

After Pia learned that her friend had been killed by a schizophrenic man wielding a gun in 1996, she became a gun control advocate who has fought to pass stricter gun laws in the U.S. Pia believes that the world + READ MORE

30 Days Episode: Jail

Morgan Spurlock does a stretch in the Henrico County, Virginia, living with actual inmates. Spurlock is immediately overwhelmed by his lack of freedom and privacy. Then he gets more privacy than he wants when he's put in a 7x10 solitary-confinment + READ MORE

30 Days Episode: Pro Choice/Pro Life

An Atlanta abortion-clinic employee spends 30 days at a Long Beach maternity home operated by a pro-life minister. Jennifer, 29, must attend anti abortion demonstrations that the home, His Nesting Place, takes part in, but she's far happier spending time + READ MORE

30 Days Episode: Immigration

Illegal immigration is the topic as a Minuteman spends a month with an East Los Angeles family of seven in their one-bedroom apartment. The irony -not lost on his hosts - is that illegal-immigration foe Frank George is an immigrant + READ MORE

30 Days Episode: New Age

A skeptical 37-year-old New Jersey salesman embarks on a regimen of New Age therapies to relieve stresses in his life that he fears are threatening his relationships with his daughter and girlfriend. He learns yoga, receives acupuncture and Reiki therapy, + READ MORE

30 Days Episode: Outsourcing

Outsourcing is explored as a New York computer programmer follows his former job to Bangalore, "the Silicon Valley of India." Chris Jobin, 37, finds he can't get it back (he'd need "Indian experience," he's told), but he easily finds work + READ MORE

30 Days Episode: Atheist/Christian

A freethinking mother of four finds religion (for a month, at least) in the home of an evangelical Christian family. "It's not like you have an 'unborn-again' experience," says Brenda as she tells her host family, the Shores, how she + READ MORE

Off the Grid Experiments From the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the California Desert

Living off the grid isn't easy, but living on the grid isn't sustainable—at least not the way the grid is currently set up. People have started going without it around the world, on the individual and group level and on + READ MORE

Natural Highs: Skip the Drugs, Try Potentilla

The brain is pretty damn good at playing tricks on us, especially on our moods. But that doesn't mean we can't play tricks on it, too. As the book Natural Highs points out, almost all mind-altering substances are actually similar + READ MORE

30 Days: About the Show

Remember Morgan Spurlock, of Super Size Me fame? He's back, and the star of wildly popular television series that TV Guide has called "equal parts funny and sobering and a million times smarter than most other shows on TV." He + READ MORE

30 Days Episode: Anti-Aging

Can the aging process be reversed? A thirty-something former athlete battles back at his expanding waistline and lowering libido by going on an anti-aging drug regime prescribed by a doctor for 30 days. What will the effects be on his + READ MORE

30 Days Episode: Muslims in America

David Stacy, a 33-year-old Christian man from West Virginia, agrees to make a drastic life change for 30 days when he moves to the largely Muslim community of Dearborn, Michigan. David struggles with his feelings and previous prejudices against a + READ MORE

30 Days Episode: Straight Man in a Gay World

A God-fearing 24-year-old conservative homophobe from red state America travels to San Francisco?s Castro District to live in what is notoriously known as one of the gayest areas of the country. As he joins a gay sports team, works a + READ MORE

30 Days Episode: Off The Grid

Two 30-year-old professionals who are friends and typical Americans?i.e., ravenous consumers of fossil fuels such as gas and electricity?go ?back to the future? and learn to live without the natural resources that will be depleted from our earth in the + READ MORE

30 Days Episode: Binge Drinking Mom

A mother concerned about her daughter?s alcohol consumption now that she is in college agrees to binge drink for 30 Days to try to get through to her. In a booze-drenched Freaky Friday scenario, the daughter will see her mother + READ MORE

30 Days Episode: Minimum Wage

Morgan Spurlock and his fiancée Alex leave their fabulous New York lifestyles behind for the heart of the Midwest, Columbus, Ohio. Morgan and Alex work at multiple minimum wage jobs for 30 days earning $5.15 per hour. They get to + READ MORE