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No upcoming broadcasts. Find out when Silkwood airs on TV. A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.
Movies Series Sports. We provide tailored audiovisual services and collaborate with a wide range and unique team of dedicated, film-savvy directors. Customise listings. Silkwood was shot largely in both New Mexico and Texas on a budget of $10 million. With Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson. See the channels and broadcast times here. Directed by Mike Nichols. Silkwood is the new advertising division of award-winning film production company Lucky Man Films founded by David Ondříček in 1999. Karen's whistle blower efforts as a union activist to reveal Kerr- McGee's possible radiation poisoning of its employees ended tragically. What's on TV? The taut Mike Nichols drama Silkwood (1983) was based on the real life case of a plutonium processing plant metallurgy worker, Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep), who discovered corporate powers were covering up radiation leaks at Oklahoma's Kerr-McGee plant. Silkwood (1983) Drama documentary.