Films like Silkwood
Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial. As her illness increases, her protest grow...
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Pu-239
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The China Syndrome
Film · 1979 · also dramaWhile doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined t...
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Panic in Year Zero!
Film · 1962 · also dramaWhile on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywh...
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Night Moves
Film · 2014 · also dramaThe story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
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Threads
Film · 1984 · also dramaDocumentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civil...
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Bastard Out of Carolina
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Watchmen: Chapter II
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Unthinkable
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Matewan
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Clemency
Film · 2019 · also dramaYears of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the p...
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