Wow! What a story. Who knew?

Rating: 9/10 (9 November 2017)

This is based upon true events.
Three black women made history without any of us knowing the contributions they made to successful NASA launches with men aboard. The women: Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henderson); Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spenser); and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae).
Back in the day when we were kids, we saw news programs of NASA putting rockets with men in them into orbit. We saw that they did so seamlessly and after while it became like a piece of cake. Well, this movie shows us that a lot more went into that piece of cake then we were told or knew about. So much so that we had no idea what it was like for black women working at the Langley NASA compound with Colored sections for almost everything.
Katherine is the known math genius who knew Analytical Geometry a very specialized math that Al Harrison (Kevin Costner) feels is most necessary to put a man into space. Dorothy knows computers and bones up on the Fortran language that the new IBM 7090 computer runs on. Mary also works in the Computer section, but wants to become an Engineer to work with the engineers there but because she doesn't have the required degree she cannot. She petitions the courts to allow her to take the required courses at a strictly White school and that was granted.
Katherine works at the Flight Research Division and has absences to use the Colored Bathroom about ½ mile away. This takes a while before Harrison notices she is not at her desk and when she comes in the door soaking wet and tells where she was Harrison finally takes the imitative to terminate all Colored Bathrooms and they are to use restroom closest to their desks.
We see that Katherine is instrumental in doing the math for John Glenn's (Glen Powell) launch and recovery. She is kind of acknowledged for superior work but it is all low key.
We had no idea there were problems at Langley between white men and black women. Who knew? But these women fought thru all the obstacles to find their place in history . As far as America knew all went smoothly at Langley. It was very uncomfortable seeing these women treated that way. It's not that the United States had a Segregation problem, no, the US had an Integration problem. And probably still does in many instances.
Notables: Kirsten Dunst as Vivian Mitchell a supervisor over Dorothy and her computing group; Jim Parsons as Paul Stafford, the Chief Engineer under Harrison's main research group and not very friendly to Katherine.
Stay until the end of the movie to find out what happened to those 3-women and it's all good.
I love movies where someone has special powers or a talent that everyone is in awe of. And that is what we have here. who knew? (9/10)
Violence: No. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: No.