Title: Hidden Figures
Date: 2016
Media type: Film
Format: Complete
Category: Internal Dynamics of Families
Keywords: family demographics, family relationship, parenting styles, single parenting, work and family
Rating: PG – Parental Guidance Suggested
Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Adults, Parents, Couples, Families
Language: English
Film/Episode Summary: As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female 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”, we 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 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. (Taraji P. Henson – Katherine G. Johnson, Octavia Spencer – Dorothy Vaughan, Janelle Monae – Mary Jackson (engineer)) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846340/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
Places to view: Google Play, YouTube
Contributor: Krista Hamann