Hidden Figures has a surprisingly light touch as it vividly and entertainingly details how Black female mathematicians overcame discrimination to help NASA win the space race. (Did you think we’d include four separate movies about sports (chess counts!) and not one about scientists?)
The fact that Hidden Figures is based on a true story makes it especially inspiring.
We begin and end with Christopher Nolan films. The latest Oscar winner for Best Picture was very true to life — it was closely rooted in the nonfiction book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, written by by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin over 25 years. Of course, Nolan being Nolan, he interspersed timelines in his factual account.
Even some of the most surprising moments — like President Truman calling Oppenheimer a “cry baby” — really did happen.
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