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>> you have identification? >> we are on our way to work at nasa, sir. >> i had no idea they hired. >> quite a few women working in the space program. >> thats john glenn. >> what do you do in. >> calculate launch and landing. >> engineer. im proud to be working with you. >> how could you be up on these white men? >> its equal. >> let me ask you, would you wish to be an engineer? >> i wouldnt have to. i would already be one. >> its out in select theaters at christmastime, christmas day and a wid...

Janelle monet, thank you, there you are. you all look very glamorous right now. in the movie, youre dressed like bureaucrats. the great kevin costner is here, and singer/songwriter pharrell williams, who composed the sound track for the movie and the score, as well, and director, ted melfy, thank you. i want to talk to you, taraji. you dominate that movie and i have to say that. and the scenes of putting up with jim crow and putting up with jim crow in a federal institution, but what grabbed me ...

Were coming back with the stars of the soon-to-be released movie "hidden figures" about the pioneering african-american mathematicians who helped launch americas space program. heres a clip from the film. >> the pastor mentioned your computer at nasa. pretty heady stuff. >> yes, it is. >> they let women handle that sort of -- thats not what i mean. >> what do you mean? >> im just surprised that something so taxing -- >> mr. johnson, if i were you, id quit talking right now. >> i didnt mean no di...

Director, thank you. i want to talk to you. you just dominate that movie. i have to say that. the scenes of putting up with jim crow and putting up with jim crow in a federal institution. what grabbed me in the beginning was the cop who stopped you guys. i love 57 chevys. we always love them. stops you. he has the usual color mentality going on, black/white thing going on. all of a sudden he realizes you are in the space program. his patriotism kicks in. >> i think thats the overall message of t...

Unemployed riding around in this pile of junk. >> youre welcome to walk the 16 miles. >> or sit in the back of the bus. >> do you have identification on you? >> were just on our way to work. at nasa, sir. >> i had no idea they hired -- >> quite a few women working in the space program. >> what do you ladies do for nasa? >> engineering. and im proud as the devil to be working with you. >> how could you possibly be talking to these white men? >> its equal rights. >> if you were white, would you wi...

Were coming back with the stars of the soon-to-be released movie "hidden figures" about the pioneering african-american mathematicians who helped launch americas space program. heres a clip from the film. >> the pastor mentioned your computer at nasa. pretty heady stuff. >> yes, it is. >> they let women handle that sort of -- thats not what i mean. >> what do you mean? >> im just surprised that something so taxing -- >> mr. johnson, if i were you, id quit talking right now. >> i didnt mean no di...

You all look very glamorous right now. in the movie, youre dressed like bureaucrats. the great kevin costner is here, and singer/songwriter pharrell williams, who composed the sound track for the movie and the score, as well, and director, ted melfy, thank you. i want to talk to you, taraji. you dominate that movie and i have to say that. and the scenes of putting up with jim crow and putting up with jim crow in a federal institution, but what grabbed me in the beginning was the cop who stopped ...

>> we all going to end up unemployed riding around in this pile of junk. >> youre welcome to walk the 16 miles. >> or sit in the back of the bus. >> do you have identification on you? >> were just on our way to work. at nasa, sir. >> i had no idea they hired -- >> quite a few women working in the space program. >> what do you ladies do for nasa? >> engineering. and im proud as the devil to be working with you. >> how could you possibly be talking to thiz white men? >> its equal rights. >> if you...

She had him learn poems that he could recite by heart until the end of his life. and he also wrote some of his own poems. all these stories that he told bus his growing up years now feel like gifts that he left us. now rear are some things that i remember about my life with my father. he loved science. when i was a kid, i remember him drawing -- bear with me a bit. i remember him drawing me diagrams to explain how the shape of an airplanes wing would create lift as air flowed over it. and this h...

Think you can find me the frame for this data using -- >> the algorithim, yes, sir. i prefer it over euclidian coordinates. >> welcome back. that was the scene from the upcoming flil, hidden figures. the true story of three african-american mathematicians and the key role they played at nasa to launch the first american into orbit. it sets the struggle of equal rights against the space race. even at nasa, african-americans were segregated from their white counter parts. this is a film about wome...