Silkwood

Silkwood (1983)

1983-12-14 · 131 min · Rating 6.90/10 (344 votes)

On November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, an employee of a nuclear facility, left to meet with a reporter from the New York Times. She never got there.

Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial. As her illness increases, her protest grows louder and she becomes an obvious danger to the powers that be.

Drama

Keywords

assassinated chemical poisoning fighting the system idealism idealist illegal waste disposal labor organizer labor union nuclear power plant nuclear radiation oklahoma plutonium radiation radiation exposure staged death suspicious death whistleblower worker's rights workers union

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