Hidden Figures [Blu-ray]

This is so offensive on so many levels.Imagine young black women getting the opportunity to get a practical, marketable education.Imagine black nuclear families with a responsible, loving husband living with them, building a life with them, teaching them, learning with them, growing with them as a family.Imagine young black women wanting to accomplish something great, something positive, in their lives. To be a part of a larger vision. To work hard and be the best at what they do.Imagine young black women getting jobs because they have worked hard to gain the knowledge, skills, abilities, and merit to earn those jobs, then excel at them.Imagine a world where young black women would have the opportunity to gain the knowledge, skills, abilities, and merit - to even have the basic qualifications necessary to get the opportunity to work hard for them.Imagine young black women earning a family wage, contributing to society, and paying taxes - living a "normal" nuclear life with their families.Amazing.What this film shows is how much white people were offended by black people back in that era, and how offended most white people are today at the idea this ever happened. People grew. People learned hard lessons from their failures. People evolved. Not all people, it's an on-going process, but it is a continuing process. A process which needs to be cultivated by everyone, not just whites. Horrible mistakes were made, but people learn from failure better than success - failures are lessons more meaningful and memorable. Failure sucks, and scars are important reminders of lessons best not forgotten.People should get credit for learning and evolving, in today's world, no matter how things have changed for the better, no credit is ever given, which hampers the effort. You want people to evolve? Teach them, work with them, don't just berate them. That applies to all facets of life, especially marriage. Celebrate steps accomplished to encourage, don't just demand more.Imagine how different the black experience would be if the Gov't provided a solid, practical, meaningful education to them, instead of the worthless education they historically had - the same empty education they are now perpetrating on ALL American children. An "education" where high school grads can't read, write, or do simple math, or even read a tape measure.Years ago, I worked with a lady who was married to a young black man. They were a very nice couple- very sweet. During that time, he was featured on the cover of TIME magazine with 9 other young people. They had been deemed the 10 best young minds in America. It didn't matter what any of them were - what "category" they were. What an honor at the time. I don't believe you would see any media do that today.Today it's all about hate and division. Politicians continue to do all of us wrong. Imagine where we would all be today if they worked to educate us and bring us all together to contribute to society and each other instead of motivating hatefulness and ignorance.You want to change the world? Educate ALL children with marketable skills and dump the media and politicians who work hard to hamper that effort and only preach hate to control everyone's lives. Politicians, media, etc., who work to de-evolve everyone and turn them back into the racially intolerant ignoramuses they were years ago. LBJ was the Godfather of oppression. He had the skills to make it look like he was doing the black population a favor while actually setting them up for massive failure which is still rampant today. That chain needs to be broken thru good, solid, practical, marketable education. Everyone should turn their racial efforts and drama into attaining that - demanding that.Over time, people with skills will work together to build. Skill and work ethics will prevail. I have seen it work. I have worked closely with people from all over the planet for decades. Color never mattered, skills and contribution did.This would be a whole different planet if society made cooperation and education paramount.Don't complain - contribute. Make your world a better place.

I watched this movie on Amazon Prime and liked it so much I purchased the movie. I know there was some give an take on the way things happened to make the movie work, but this is a movie that keep me in my seat. Actors that have been choosen to make this movie are excellent. I can't say enough good things about this movie, it is worth your time to watch especially if you like some historical truth. It may not have won the awards it deserved (in my opinion), but it takes nothing away from a great story and acting.

Do I like the story, the actors, that it is based on real magnificent women? I love it all and have seen this film many many times which is why I finally purchased it so I could watch it when it wasn’t available. Totally recommend anybody who wants a feel good movie about real life heroes.

Good story on how people of color had to always beat the odds even when they was still showing that they had what was needed to be able just to work!! The best part is,the showed the world that they could do it through it all!!

Movie was really good. Delivered exactly when they said it would be here.

This is a movie about acknowledging people who are career climbers.I don’t want to give this away, but if you love watching dark-toned and/or females fighting the system (aka “white males”) and winning, or if you grew up before the birth of computers, or you just love everything space and nasa, you will love this.This is NOT an underdog story! Yes, it is about three female women of color, but their intelligence blows everyone else away, including their “underdog status”.This is NOT a white savior story, even though there are a few who help them out occasionally, these women did not pull themselves out by the bootstraps. They changed the entire hole so it suited them, and walked out, heads held high! But it also teaches that if someone - anyone - offers help, hey! it’s ok to accept it EVEN if you can do it yourself. They are saving you time. Take it and thank them. Because, at the end of the day, they will be bringing you coffee, anyway.The best thing I enjoyed about this video is that it’s real. It happened. It wasn’t a dream gone sour, it was a real live event that made me want to scream “YOU GOT THIS!!! KEEP GOING!!”I’m tearing up just thinking about it.

this movie is an excellent documentary of unknown history that should be introduced in all public schools.

I really liked this movie and I learned about some of our history that most of us probably did not know. Based on a true story I found it to be very entertaining and watchful. I grew up in the '50s and '60s and still found myself getting angry over the way these ladies were treated during these early days of NASA and our space race with the Russians. This is a part of history that needs to be told, and re-told.