Overview: Three female African-American mathematicians play a pivotal role in astronaut John Glenn’s launch into orbit. Meanwhile, they also have to deal with racial and gender discrimination at work.

producer: Fox 2000

Conglomerate: Fox

Title Meaning: “Hidden Figures” has a double meaning, On one hand, it refers to the mathematical calculations that went into making John Glenn the first American man into space in 1962. Johnson’s genius with analytic geometry lands her a spot with the Space Task Group to calculate launches and landings.

Hidden figures were based on: based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly, focuses on Katherine Johnson (left), Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan, African-American women who were essential to the success of early spaceflight.

Budget: 25 million USD, medium budget

Box office: 236 million USD, world-wide