69541SDG Based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly Originally released as a motion picture in 2016 Includes preview of another motion picture 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 Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge, Glen Powell, Kimberly Quinn, Olek Krupa
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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