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. 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.
Publisher:Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2017.
General Note: In English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish, with optional subtitles in French and Spanish; optionally subtitled in English for the hearing impaired (SDH); optionally described in English for the visually impaired (DVS); closed-captioned.For private use only.Based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly.Special features: Making of featurettes. No limits-the life of Katherine Johnson; Right people for the job; Recreating an era; Spiritual journey-the music of the film; Moving the decimal-honoring Katherine Johnson; deleted scenes; filming in Georgia; gallery; audio commentary by director Theodore Melfi and Taraji P. Henson.Originally released as a motion picture in 2016.Blu-ray + DVD combo pack.
Participant or Performer Note: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge.
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Rating: PG; for thematic elements and some language.