13, 1974, after crashing her car on her way to meet with a newspaper reporter to discuss her evidence of negligence at the plant. The movie depicts Silkwood's attempts to expose the nuclear plants, ...

Based loosely on Carrie Fisher’s own life, Postcards from the Edge (1990) casts Streep as Suzanne Vale, an actress battling ...

A movie depicting the life of an Oklahoma whistleblower is now available to stream, nearly 50 years after the movie's subject was killed in a car wreck. Karen Silkwood was an employee at the ...

Trump was not the only Republican who was offended by the speech. Many took to Twitter to criticize Meryl Streep ...

There's no question about that." The story of Karen Silkwood made national headlines for a time and inspired the 1983 Mike Nichols film, "Silkwood," starring Meryl Streep. MORE: Karen Silkwood's ...