Thursday, May 28, 2026

'The Strike' leads Outstanding Crime and Justice Documentary at tonight's News & Doc Emmy Awards for Throwback Thursday


I closed 'Love + War' at the News & Doc Emmy Awards for Wayback Wednesday by telling my readers to "Stay tuned for the final entry about documentary nominees at the News & Doc Emmy Awards" today. I begin with the leading nominee for Outstanding Crime and Justice Documentary, The Stike.

"The Strike" is a feature documentary that tells the story of a generation of California men who endured decades of solitary confinement and, against all odds, launched the largest hunger strike in U.S. history.

Directed and produced by JoeBill Muñoz and Lucas Guilkey.
This is my pick to win this category, as it has the most nominations. The rest of the field has only this one nomination. I'm not embedding their trailers, as I am covering the remaining categories instead.
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Only one nominee for Outstanding Short Documentary has a second nomination, Chasing Time | Official Trailer | ALT EFF 2025.

Over 15 years, Chasing Time follows James Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey, capturing glaciers vanishing and providing visual evidence of climate change. Reuniting with the Emmy-winning Chasing Ice team, it concludes their epic work, reflecting on time, mortality, and intergenerational hope.
I would pick this sequel to Chasing Ice to win just because I'm a fan of the original and would recommend it to my students. So is the first documentary I'm featuring for the next category.


The nominee for Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary I'm recommending to my students is Made in Ethiopia.

When a massive Chinese industrial park transforms rural Ethiopia, three women, a director, a farmer, and a factory worker, find their lives entwined in the promises and costs of progress. Filmed over four years, Made in Ethiopia reveals China’s complex impact on Africa and a nation’s struggle between tradition, modernity, and survival.
This video may not be explicitly environmental, but it is very much about sustainable development, a topic my environmental science course examines. Welcome to blogging as professional development.

I'm not sure it will win. Instead I think it will be one of the next two whose trailers I'm embedding, beginning with BRIBE, INC. (2024) - Official Trailer | JOLT.

BRIBE, INC. is a true story exposing the shady underpinnings that fuel global commerce: corruption and lots of money.

In the shadows of the global oil industry the Ahsani family ran Unaoil with jet-set style and total impunity. Until journalist Nick McKenzie encountered a whistleblower with enough insider intel to take the whole gang down.

In a manhunt spanning the globe Nick untangles the Ahsanis’ web of deceit and corruption exposing them as the grubby crime family they are. As the plot twists and turns will justice be served?
First, it's about oil, so it's also germane to my environmental science and geology students. Second, it looks like fun. Third, this could just as easily have been an investigative or crime nominee. The same is true of the other nominee that caught my eye, CAN'T LOOK AWAY (2025) - Official Trailer | JOLT.

Can't Look Away is a gripping documentary that exposes the dark side of social media and its devastating impact on young users. Directors Matthew O'Neill and Perri Peltz take viewers inside the high-stakes legal battle to hold tech companies accountable for the harm caused by their negligence and dangerous algorithms. Based on investigative reporting by Bloomberg News' Olivia Carville, the film follows the Social Media Victims Law Center fighting for justice for families whose children suffered tragic consequences linked to social media use. As families seek justice, Can't Look Away underscores the urgent need for industry reform and serves as both a wake-up call about the dangers of social media—and a call to action to protect future generations.
I don't have to look at the other two trailers; I think this is the winner.

Just for completeness, I have one last category.


I have no idea which one will win and I've embedded enough trailers for today. Follow over the jump for the most read entries about entertainment from the back catalog during the 15th year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News that I missed in 'Andor' earns a Hugo nomination for Revenge of the Sixth on Wayback Wednesday.


Web search propelled New 'Fear the Walking Dead' promo from August 10, 2015 to 50th place with 616 raw page views.


Web search also propelled Music at March For Our Lives from March 28, 2018 to 60th place with 530 raw page views.

That's a wrap for today. Stay tuned as I take a break from the News & Doc Emmy Awards tomorrow as I return to topical posts to prepare for sharing them during June. Jimmy Kimmel, anyone?

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