Hidden Figures: Film Review

Read here: http://media.lsu.co.uk/?p=32003 This film is significant in that it triangulates the issues surrounding race, gender and class. Based on a true story, the film takes place within the space race of the 1960s amidst the racial tension of the civil rights movement and presents the battle to put a man in space from the previously untold perspective of the African-American women that helped make it happen.