Hidden Figures
(2016)
★ 8 IMDb · 10,652 votes
Year: 2016
Runtime: 126 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Theodore Melfi
Cast: Тараджи Хенсон, Октавия Спенсер, Жанель Монэ, Кевин Костнер, Кирстен Данст, Джим Парсонс, Махершала Али, Глен Пауэлл, Ariana Neal, Санийя Сидни
Plot
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of female African-American mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women known as "human computers", follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history's greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Goble Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.