Query: Books about African-American history that are non-fiction adapted into films
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Mutiny on the Amistad
Hidden Figures (book)
Evidence from documents: Mutiny on the Amistad: Books about African-American history: '''''Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy''''' (1987) is a history of a notable slave mutiny of 1839 and its aftermath, written by professor Howard Jones.
adapted into films: The 1997 film ''Amistad'', directed by Steven Spielberg, is based on this book, including the Supreme Court case.
Hidden Figures (book): The book reached number one on ''The New York Times'' Non-Fiction Best Sellers list and got the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction in 2017. The book was adapted as a film by the same name, released in 2016, that was nominated for three Oscars. It received numerous other awards.
''Hidden Figures'' explores the biographies of three African-American women who worked as computers to solve problems for engineers and others at NASA. For the first years of their careers, the workplace was segregated and women were kept in the background as human computers. Author Margot Lee Shetterly's father was a research scientist at NASA who worked with many of the book's main characters.