Silkwood 1983

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.

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R
Drama Thriller

The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.

Release Date 1983-12-14
Runtime 2h 11m
Directors Miroslav Ondříček, Mike Nichols, Michael Hausman, Joel Tuber, John Dapper
Producers Michael Hausman, Buzz Hirsch, Larry Cano, Mike Nichols, Joel Tuber, Tom Stovall
Writers Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen