Watch this when
Hidden Figures
When they finally ask for YOU to check the numbers. 🚀
Who it's for
The true story of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, Black women mathematicians at NASA whose work helped launch John Glenn into orbit.
Proud→Empowered
Feelings it meets
What it is
Hidden Figures is a 2016 biographical drama directed by Theodore Melfi, loosely based on Margot Lee Shetterly's book. Set in 1961 at NASA's Langley Research Center during the Space Race, it follows three African-American mathematicians working as segregated "computers": Katherine Goble Johnson, who joins the Space Task Group; Dorothy Vaughan, who supervises the segregated computing unit as electronic computers…
Where to find it
Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: Segregation and racism.
Age: PG
I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.William Ernest Henley, “Invictus”
