One of the worst things about this story is that for most of the girls who died, US Radium bribed coroners to list the cause of death as syphilis to ruin their reputations and credibility

One of the girls literally testified from her deathbed

I got an ad that said “do you want skin that lights up the room?” bad. timing.

My biggest problem is the "Radium is good for you, Everyone knows that" not only were they oblivious to the facts, they were told lies about it

Important story. A company that knew its products were toxic and knowingly poisoned women and girls. And similar stories still happening with toxic chemicals dumped in water and present in building materials and personal are products!

Joey King really impresses me. I know she’s been in a hundred Netflix teen rom coms and a few Disney channel shows in her younger years, but between this and The Act, she’s also making it clear that she’s intent on doing serious movies with complex, fascinating characters.

To this day their remaining bones are radioactive. The Radium Girls were featured in the documentary The Poisoner's Handbook.

"Radium is good for you, Everyone knows that" makes me wonder what we are absolutely oblivious to in this time. scaryyyyyyy man

Knowing what happened to these young women angers me so much. Makes me also think of what kind of things are we exposing ourselves to currently that we’ll later find out are fatal?!?!

This is the lawsuit that led to the creation of OSHA.

The sad part about all this is when Grace Fryer and the others first started going to court they weren't taken seriously until the first male worker died

I remember doing a presentation about the effects of radiation on humans and the environment in ninth grade and these women were a central part of it, but nobody including my teacher ever heard of them. It’s important to have a movie like this to make their story well known.

Oh God, every time they lick that brush feels like a stab

My father worked for US Radium from age of 20's- 70's and I have and many other class mates who parents worked of lived by the plant and have autoimmune disease. The plant is now EPA clean up. About damn time a movie was made!

Fact: The first girl to die from radium poisoning was so afflicted, the doctor lifted her jaw right out of her face.

The dial workers used to paint themselves with the luminescent paint for fun, and before leaving work on Friday evenings they would sprinkle the luminous powder on their dresses so when they attended the parties that night they would literally be glowing and would be the envy of the rest of the females in attendance. Crazy! The book was amazing, I heard about it on a podcast and flew through it in a couple days, I’m sure this movie or series will be great too.

The way the women were getting poisoned was from putting their paint brushes back in their mouths after they had put it into the paint. Just in case if anyone was confused on how they were getting poisoned. I had to look it up because I didn’t know.

Is Joey king ever going to be able to grow all of her hair back out without getting another job that keeps it short

Fun fact American Radium never admitted fault. Simply just a payout.

I did an 8 page paper on the history of toxicology and when I say that the radium girls story shook me to the bottom of my high school core..... I cant express how excited and happy I am to see this story finally getting a proper telling on the big screen. I want to cry for some reason

These girls wore the radium when they went out to dance. So horrible that they weren't told of the dangers.

Companies today are still putting their workers in danger and swearing everything is fine. Human decency has never existed... not when there’s a profit to be made....

I was just in a stage production of Radium Girls and it was probably one of the most difficult shows I have ever been in. Capturing these poor girls suffering. This story is truly so moving and disturbing. I highly recommend looking into it.

God, I recognized the term “Radium Girls” and knew which way the trailer was headed despite the cheerful beginning. The story is just a horrible thing to have heard of, but I’m glad that it will be brought back into the eyes of the public.

We need more movies like these. Real heroes not the comic book type.

Here is a Lesson for everyone, never trust any company, corporation, or any business compeltely, they get revenues not because they do honest work. They will cut as much corners as they could. Always support anyone speaking out against any corporation, because they're always the ones ended up being in the right side of history, while companies are the bad guy, as history has revealed.

They performed this play at my granddaughter’s school this last fall. She played Grace Fryer and it was intense, sad and awesome all at the same time. Can’t wait for the movie just hope they it do it justice. The book is an absolute must read naturally it goes into more detail than what they can put in a movie. These GIRLS and that’s what the were, some as young as 14 suffered horrendously with this poisoning before they died, and it was for the most part a slow agonizing death.

isn't it so telling that so many of us here have only found out about this story now? super happy they are showing women's history for once!

Omg the real is story is heartbreaking. I didn’t know they’re gonna do a movie about it. Joey King is fantastic I’m glad to see her star in it

The 'Golden Globe Nominee: Joey King' gives me so much joy because she has come so far!

I'm really looking forward to watch this movie. The discovery of Radium by Marie Curie was such an important fact in History and its use in radiotherapy to cure tumors is revolutionary, but as anything that involves radiation, it has to be managed with care. We can't even blame society in general because only scientists and very few people understood the bad effects of Radium and this type of information wasn't widely spread back then. Most bad things were sadly discovered through tragedies like this one and as sad as it is, we owe these girls a lot for showing what radiation can do to our bodies.

i’ve been in a production of a play called radium girls. i played the role of grace fryer. this story deserves to be told and i am so glad it’s being brought back.

So many cover ups, so much "research" that is biased. Money talks.

I literally found out about the Radium Girls just a few weeks ago and now I find out that they made a movie about them

I was in my school’s production of radium girls - an incredible, heartbreaking story. Very cool to see this bit of history being adapted into a film

PLEASE RELEASE THIS ALREADY!!! So intriguing , I’ve read everything there is about the subject , books articles even from the time period, every video on KZfaq. I need more!! Lol

This is going to be a heartbreaking movie. Bring xtra tissues.

I read the story of these brave women and their horrific injuries which lead to death in many cases. Their struggle for recognition and compensation was long and hard. We have indeed not learnt anything in 100 years, money still talks louder than human rights. Glad their story will come to a wider audience and will inspire anyone who is being bullied, harrassed or mistreated at work.

I just finished reading "The Radium Girls" book not knowing there was a new movie depicting their story. I hope this is more graphic than the trailer is showing. The book details more than I just watched. Those girls really suffered.

I literally just finished reading the book Radium Girls.... And I don't know, this trailer is bugging me. Granted I read the first part several months ago and finished it after a hiatus just this last week... But the movie seems to be lacking something. Like what happened to those women was terrifically horrifying and gruesome. Everyone in this looks too pretty... Even the ones who are supposed to be dissolving from the inside out from radiation poisoning. And the whole one voice crying out against the big company seems to be played up with raids and corporate intimidation. And I get that because of cinema. But it just bothers me that they feel the need to do this when the reality is fascinating enough. The lying, blocking, delaying, and withholding of the radium companies is fascinating and angering enough. Trust me, if you read the book, you'd probably agree that it doesn't need the 'cinematic push' to make the bad guys more cartoonishly evil. They were doing it all on their own. I guess I'm taking the long route to say that this movie seems to be more style over substance, when the reality of what actually happened is so much more interesting than what this film seems to offer... But hey, it's not out yet, so I'll hold back on fully judging it until I actually see it.

Was wondering when their sad tale would be made into a movie. The radium decimated their bodies.

I was in this play in high school for our One Act competition and we won state 😇 it’s such a sad, tragic story tho :/

If this movie interests you, you should also check out the movie Dark Waters or documentary The Devil We Know. Both are about the chemical company Dupont and how they knowingly poisoned the world population

I really hope this movie sheds the light on our past and does the history of this heartbreaking time justice. The trailer alone looks amazing so I hope it lives up to my expectations. And I’m grateful producers are finally shedding more light on this. May those beautiful souls who suffered from radium have peace 💕

Years ago, I heard a story about the "raduim girls" per the show "Antiques Roadshow", when someone took one of those antique radium watches to be evaluated. From what i can recall, one of them told a story about one of the girls, who was going about her usual workday, when she pushed both of her legs on the stool's foot rest to adjust her sitting, both of her legs below her knees snapped in two. Such an AWFUL story. I'm glad their stories are being told through this compelling new film.

I’m so glad this is getting released! It was actually made in 2018 and did small film festival circuits and then seemed to just completely fade into obscurity. I thought I was never gonna get to watch it so you can imagine my excitement when this video was in my recommendeds

Netflix is upping their game and I'm here for it. Hell yes, we do need more films like these.

"Radium products were used for any ailment where lack of energy was seen to be the root cause -- from common fatigue to impotence," Far from being a panacea, radium was deadly! It was a slow killer! When ingested, radium is particularly dangerous: Chemically, it behaves very much like calcium, Since the body uses calcium to make bone, ingested radium is mistaken for calcium and gets incorporated into bone. So the major health risk of ingesting radium is radiation-induced bone necrosis and bone cancers. How soon they develop depends upon the dose, but at the very high doses that the Radium Girls were exposed to it only took a few years. Moral of the story;Never trust the Government without doing your own research first!

This is adapted from a theatrical play by D.W. Gregory, published in 2000. I saw it at Boston University in 2011 when my theater department did a production of it in the South End. It was heartbreaking then, I'm sure it will be heartbreaking now.

i read a story based on this some years back with photos of the girls while they were sick in it. it was horrifying.

When she said radium is good for you it sent a chill down my spine

The Geiger counter went nuts when it was taken to a cemetery where a lot of the radium girls were buried. Some of them had to be buried in lead lined coffins.

God I remember seeing a One Act Play based on this story, and Holy damn. They won first place, the story and acting was beautiful.

The crooked rich are at it again, where the hell is Bane

what sucks is that after girls started dying, it was around the same time as The Great Depression so people were too scared to quit their jobs, and other people didn’t care that people were dying as long as they had jobs..

I am so glad the story is being told. Thank you. I have been there, talked to families and a survivor. Long ago. Thank you.

I staged managed this play in college. It’s heartbreaking and needs to be told. I’m glad this is coming out.

I once watched a documentary about young people in today's China who work in tech device assembly dying from dangerous substances used to clean the electronic parts. This reminds me a lot of that story. So it's still happening.

I read the book about them back in high school, I'm so glad they're making it into a movie. It's such an important part of history.

This film has my heart ❤.. The actors and this story.... And the heartbreak and the way they portrayed the impact of the issue 🙏

I used to live in Ottawa, IL, one of the other cities with an American Radium plant. There were graves in the cemetery where workers were interred and spots on some of the sports fields where debris had been buried where snow wouldn't stick in the winters. It eventually got declared a Superfund site and cleaned up.

Corporations are still doing this in 2020, see Dupont Chemical- Democracy Now.

I love how joey takes up challenging roles ❤

FINALLY their story is being told... one of the most heartbreaking stories I’ve ever learned about

I read the book. Tragic. And horrifying. My grandmother told me about these women years and years ago. She was always so glad she never worked there. I'm glad too.

For everyone who is asking when is the movie coming out, this movie was supposed to come out in April 2020 but it is delayed because of the quarantine. It should be out once the quarantine is over.

I’M SO GLAD THERES FINALLY A MOVIE ABOUT THIS

I remember doing this play in high school and always thought it should be a movie! So glad to see it’s finally a movie, especially with Joey King 😃

This was such a beautiful book and lesson in history and I cannot wait to see it brought back to life to illuminate the atrocities that occurred!!!

Joey king is working hard for that Oscar . 👏🏼

I saw a great old documentary about this when I was a teenager and it stuck with me for 30 plus years (used to have a link for it on KZfaq, but they removed it.. probably because of this movie). I think it is a story every person entering the workforce should know. Such a tragic story. Glad to see it is gaining attention once again via this movie and plays, etc..

Joey King was amazing in The Act. Hopefully we'll get to see her portray more complex characters in thought provoking films like this one.

heard about this story on My Favorite Murder a while ago - so glad they are making a movie about it! This story deserves to be told!

Joey has the perfect look for the period! I can't wait to see this.

I wanted to cry during this trailer. Heart breaking. Truly heart breaking what these girls went through.

YES! I was waiting for a movie about this! I saw the stage production a couple years back at a theater festival and ever since then I was very interested in the story. Very compelling and sad story for the girls who were involved.

The effects were so much more gruesome than they're showing. In the preview. The book spares no detail on how Radium killed them painfully and slowly.

This is such an interesting story I wonder why I've never heard of this

I read this book for my history class last year. Such a good read, can’t wait to watch this.

I live 35 miles east of Ottawa Illinois where this story happened. The torn down school which was converted into the Radium Dial Company in 1917 and was dismantled in the 80's and dumped at another site in Ottawa to avoid the cost of proper radioactive material disposal. Still to this day, there are posted "High Radiation" warning signs on the fenced in area where the debris was buried.

I first learned about this story on My Favorite Murder podcast. I'm looking forward to watching the movie

the book is very intriguing... def recommend that u read it before the movie

Read up on how one of the first girls affected had a mouth abscess so bad her dentist merely PRODDED at her jaw and it broke. It only took fingers to completely remove her lower jaw.

Just by title alone I know EXACTLY what this movie is about and I AM HERE FOR IT!!!!!

I just found out about Radium Girls months ago from a Facebook docu vid 'History Behind' I'm glad it's getting a movie to tell more story behind it

Love the finger waves

Whewww boy, this is one of the topics I'm most obsessed with. I did a whole multi-page essay based on the Radium Girls for National History Day assignment. I read the majority of a book under the same name, it's fantastic. Might try to get it a library again and give it a re-read.

The book was amazing, with every chapter you see the loss of grip the corporations start to have as the workers unite and stand up. At first it seems hopeless, until it doesn’t. Great book!

"Radium is good for you, everyone knows that" - Then. "Fluoride is good for you, everyone knows that" - Now.

I absolutely love this concept, however I just thought the film was not great at all. The changing between scenes felt very choppy, and I felt as though a couple of the characters served no purpose. I love the original story this movie was based on, though!

We did this play in high school. It’s exciting to see in become a movie!

I was in this play in my local theater. I played Grace and it was heart wrenching. It’s an amazing story.

I discoveref the story like 3 years ago... I‘m kinda glad people finally get to know to story

Next do the triangle shirtwaist factory fire.

My high school put this on as their fall drama. It was fantastic. I'm glad their story is being told on the big screen

one of our competing schools preformed this for their UIL one act play, it was really good, I can't wait to see the movie

This was such a sad play to see in person. I can’t imagine this being a movie 😭

Joey king always picks interesting projects!

I am so lucky I just happened to want to search about the Radium Girls story and I find a recent this! A current trailer of a recent film to save me the trouble of digging deep in the internet fruitlessly to find this with exact truth!

I read the book. It was heartbresking, i was in tears. Everyone should see this.