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  • Authorities finally figured out what was going on when they ran the license tag on the truck and called Silkwood's home.

    unknown title 2009

  • Well, ripped from the headlines of 25 years ago, anyway, back around the time when movies like "Silkwood" and "The China Syndrome" were mopping up Oscar nominations with their fact-based indictments of the nasty nuclear-energy industry.

    Kurt Loder Reviews ‘Edge Of Darkness’ » MTV Movies Blog 2010

  • Crescent, Okla., is perhaps best known as part of the setting for the 1983 film "Silkwood" about a whistleblower who was killed in a suspicious car accident after exposing wrongdoing at a nearby plutonium plant.

    Computer Evidence Ties Leaks to Soldier 2010

  • Silver's big-screen credits included 'Ali,' 'Reversal of Fortune,' 'Enemies: A Love Story,' 'Silkwood' and 'Semi-Tough.'

    Archive 2009-03-15 Bill Crider 2009

  • Producers of the 1983 film "Silkwood" came to Mr. Grothus for two large truckloads of equipment, including alpha counters, magnetic stirring devices and X-ray film viewers.

    Weapons Lab Machinist Morphed Into Antinuclear Gadfly and Junk Dealer 2009

  • Julia Roberts as "Erin Brokovich" and Meryl Streep in "Silkwood," were included as heroes?

    Archive 2003-06-01 2003

  • In the movie window, we have every movie represented from "Silkwood" to "Suspect" to "Moonstuck," where she won an Oscar.

    CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2002 2002

  • "I remember on 'Silkwood' once, you said to me, 'You know, directing is like making love,'"

    daytondailynews.com - News 2010

  • "I remember on 'Silkwood' once, you said to me, 'You know, directing is like making love,'"

    daytondailynews.com - News 2010

  • "Silkwood" (1983): True story of whistleblower Karen Silkwood, who was exposed to radiation at an uranium-processing plant and later died under suspicious circumstances

    Local News from Star-Banner 2010

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