Two Sloan-supported documentaries have earned multiple News & Documentary Emmys each, per the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ announcement of the 46th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards nominees on May 1.2025. Selected by a pool of over 980 peer professionals from across the news and documentary industry, nominees were selected from more than 2,200 submissions that premiered in 2024. Both Jamila Ephron’s POISONED GROUND: THE TRAGEDY AT LOVE CANAL and Pete and Rebecca Davis’s JOIN OR DIE are nominated in the Outstanding Writing – Documentary category. Though the two projects will be in competition at the Documentary Night ceremony in Manhattan on June 26, 2025, it also highlights the fact that Sloan-supported works made up one third of the category’s total nominees this year.
Read more about these projects, their nominations, and where to stream them before the winners are announced below.
Nominated for Outstanding Crime and Justice Documentary, Outstanding Writing – Documentary, and Outstanding Direction – Documentary:
POISONED GROUND: THE TRAGEDY AT LOVE CANAL. Dir. Jamila Ephron. The dramatic and inspiring story of the ordinary women who fought against overwhelming odds for the health and safety of their families. In the late 1970s, residents of Love Canal, a working-class neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, discovered that their homes, schools and playgrounds were built on top of a former chemical waste dump, which was now leaking toxic substances and wreaking havoc on their health. Through interviews with many of the extraordinary housewives turned activists, the film shows how they effectively challenged those in power, forced America to reckon with the human cost of unregulated industry, and created a grassroots movement that galvanized the landmark Superfund Bill. Available to stream on the American Experience website and YouTube.
Nominated for Outstanding Writing – Documentary and Outstanding Graphic Design – Documentary:
JOIN OR DIE. Dir. Pete Davis, Rebecca Davis. In this feature documentary, follow the half-century story of America's civic unraveling through the journey of legendary social scientist Robert Putnam, whose groundbreaking "Bowling Alone" research into America's decades-long decline in community connections could hold the answers to our democracy's present crisis. Flanked by influential fans and scholars — from Hillary Clinton, Pete Buttigieg, and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to Eddie Glaude Jr., Raj Chetty, and Priya Parker — as well as inspiring groups building community in neighborhoods across the country, join Bob as he explores three urgent civic questions: What makes democracy work? Why is American democracy in crisis? And, most importantly… What can we do about it? Available to stream on Netflix.
PARTNERS
TOPICS
SHARE