- HD 1080
- Runtime: 131m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Mike Nichols
- Stars: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Fred Ward
- keywords: research, plutonium, radiation, oklahoma, nuclear power plant, idealism, idealist, fighting the system
- Production_studio: ABC Motion Pictures
- Slogan: 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.
- providers: Hulu
- The Silkwood is featured in the top rankings of 1983
- #40 in Top Drama Movies of 1983
- #4 in Top Thriller Movies of 1983
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.
