In the 1920s, female factory workers in many parts of the USA were told that ingesting radium was safe, leading to the deaths ...

Day after day during the war, and for many years after, the radium girls painted military and civilian watches and dials, ...

Silbert did watch repair work for jewelers and manufactured dials. It used radium-based paint to manufacture luminous watch dials and hands from 1954 to 1971, according to an EPA news release.

Radium Girls” is based on the true story of a woman’s fight for truth, justice and the health of herself and her co-workers.