Silkwood
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.
Directed by Mike Nichols
Produced by ABC Motion Pictures
A grim, intellectually rigorous portrait of a whistleblower's fight against institutional indifference and her slow poisoning by both radiation and systemic corruption.
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.
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