01537cgm a2200265 4500 291038583 TxAuBib 20170426120000.0 170426s2017||||||||||||||||||||||v|und|u TxAuBib Hidden figures [videorecording]. Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox, 2017. 1 videodisc (127 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. Originally released as a motion picture in 2016. Based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly. Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge, Glen Powell, Kimberly Quinn, Olek Krupa. 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. 20170426. Women mathematicians. African American women Drama. Space race. Biographical films. Historical films. Shetterly, Margot Lee, adaptation.