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Hidden figures / Fox 2000 Pictures presents a Chernin Entertainment/Levantine Films production ; produced by Donna Gigliotti [and four others] ; screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi ; directed by Theodore Melfi. [videorecording]

Publication details: Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2017.Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 127 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cmSubject(s):
Contents:
Special features: No limits - the life of Katherine Johnson; Moving the decimal - honoring Katherine Johnson; filming in Georgia; gallery; audio commentaries.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Mandy Walker ; editor, Peter Teschner ; music, Hans Zimmer, Pharrell Williams, Benjamin Wallfisch.
Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge.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.
List(s) this item appears in: Anti-racism Reading/Viewing List 2020
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
DVD DVD Hanover Public Library Shelves DVDA HIDDEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 05/16/2024 31906001069674

Originally released as a motion picture in 2016.

Based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly.

Special features: No limits - the life of Katherine Johnson; Moving the decimal - honoring Katherine Johnson; filming in Georgia; gallery; audio commentaries.

Director of photography, Mandy Walker ; editor, Peter Teschner ; music, Hans Zimmer, Pharrell Williams, Benjamin Wallfisch.

Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge.

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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