From IMDB:
Pioneer – Rebel – Genius. Radioactive is incredible, true-story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world starring Rosamund Pike and Sam Riley.
From Amazon Prime you can stream this 1 hour 49 minute complete film.
Rosamund PIke does a wonderful job of presenting a passionate, proud, intelligent woman whose efforts to do science must always come up against the prevailing male chauvinist culture of her time (born 1904, died July 4, 1934).
Several themes run through the film: male chauvinism, her loving marriage to Pierre Curie, their achievements in science, her strongly self-assertive personality, the dangers of radioactivity, and the anti-semitic anti-Polish French people who did not understand that Marie was a Catholic.
Many visual effects are used throughout the film, some of which can be a bit over the top. But the appearance of scenes that occurred after her death emphasize the dangerous side of radioactivity are a chilling reminder: casual audiences watching atomic tests in the U.S. desert, Hiroshima at the moment of the atomic bomb blast, and the disaster at Chernobyl.
Marie used her influence and political savvy to place X-ray machines onto the WWI French battlefield in order to avoid all the unnecessary amputations that were taking place.
Marie, Pierre, and their daughter Irene all received Nobel prizes. Pierre was run over by a horse-drawn carriage. Marie died of the leukemia brought on by exposure to radioactivity. When Kathy and I were young we used to play on and use the foot X-ray machines that were in shoe stores at the time.
Hope you watch this really worthwhile biographical film.