HIDDEN FIGURES (2016) ****

(focus on NASA in the 1960s)

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Contains 17 movie quotes & 50 Academic Words (AWL*).

This biopic tells the story of three black woman, without whom, the U.S. may never have put men on the moon.  Although racial equality in America was still only a dream, these three achieve the impossible by becoming firsts in aeronautical engineering, supervision, and trajectory calculation at a time and place where only white men are considered the norm.  Meet Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan.  In this story, they prove that the workplace glass ceiling can be broken by determination, hard work, and smarts.   Stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer,  Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, and Kristen Dunst.  Rated PG (127 min.) mike laib 2017.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846340/?ref_=nv_sr_1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures

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