Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures (2016) is Theodore Melfi's fact-based drama you can watch online on iFILM. Virginia, the early 1960s. Three Black women mathematicians work at NASA while the country scrambles to catch the Soviets in space.

Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) crunches the trajectory math for orbital flight, yet has to sprint across the campus just to reach a coffee pot and a restroom marked for her. Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) runs a whole computing group without the title or the pay. Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae) goes to court for the right to train as an engineer. Above them sit a flight chief played by Kevin Costner and a wary supervisor played by Jim Parsons.

The story follows the real women whose calculations put John Glenn into Earth orbit in 1962. The film landed three Academy Award nominations, Best Picture among them. No chases, no speeches, just numbers, stubbornness, and people history nearly erased. Stream Hidden Figures (2016) online on iFILM.