Film· 2016· Drama

Hidden Figures

by Theodore Melfi

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  • Space Race

The film follows Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, NASA mathematicians behind John Glenn's 1962 orbital flight.

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Hidden Figures

It is loosely based on the 2016 book by Margot Lee Shetterly. It follows three female African-American mathematicians, Katherine Goble Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, who worked at NASA during the Space Race in the 1950s and 1960s. Other stars include Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge, and Glen Powell.

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