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.”
DramaThriller
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.
VIBE
A tense, gritty drama that feels like a slow-burn procedural. It's a somber, unsettling look at one woman's fight against a powerful system, fueled by a quiet, determined idealism that makes you question everything.
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