Radium Girls Directors Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler

Radium Girls, co-directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler and starring Joey King, is based on the true story of a group of young female factory workers in the 1920s who worked with radium — which was seen at the time as an almost miraculous element.

But the women soon began developing mysterious, terrible illnesses.

After a medical mystery — that included a misdiagnosis of syphilis for some of the victims — the women banded together to fight for their health, safety and rights.

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