Hidden figures [DVD] / Fox 2000 Pictures presents ; directed by Theodore Melfi ; screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi ; produced by Donna Gigliotti, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Pharrell Williams, Theodore Melfi ; a Chernin Entertainment/Levantine Films production.
Format:
[DVD] /
Edition:
DVD + HD Digital.
Publisher:
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge, Glen Powell, Kimberly Quinn, Olek Krupa. Based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly. Wide screen (2.39:1). Special features: No limits - the life of Katherine Johnson; Moving the decimal - honoring Katherine Johnson; filming in Georgia; gallery; audio commentary with Melfi & Henson in English, French or Spanish. Originally released as a motion picture in 2016.
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. 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.
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