Hidden Figures

“Meet the women you don't know, behind the mission you do.”

Three Black mathematicians at NASA during the Space Race want to do the work they're trained for instead of the work their skin color allows. Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) calculates orbital trajectories with perfect precision, and Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) teaches herself FORTRAN before anyone thinks to ask. Their brilliance was always there; what changes is that Al Harrison (Kevin Costner) and others finally look.