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Filmography of Dorothy Vaughan

Science and Technology

1 title in the archive · first depicted 1961

Lived1910 – 2008

NASA mathematician and the agency’s first Black supervisor as well as one of the first female FORTRAN programmers.

Shelfmark Vita CCXIII

1
title
1 film
3.8/5
average rating
across 1 rated title
2h 7m
on screen
across 1 title

5 years of a 98 year life depicted onscreen

Distinct years the archive depicts, against Dorothy Vaughan’s lifetime (1910 – 2008) — 5.1% of it.

Depicted in

1958196219611962

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Project Mercurypull it on the timeline

Project

The first crewed spaceflight program of the United States. With the Soviet Union already ahead in the Space Race with the deployment of Sputnik 1 as the world's first artificial satellite, Project Mercury's goal was to successfully perform a crewed orbit of the Earth before the Soviets. However, this record would also go to the Soviets with the flight of Yuri Gagarin in 1961.

filed under 1958

Runs throughSpace Race2American Civil Rights MovementCold War

The Box Office Ledger

What the films portraying Dorothy Vaughan cost to make and took at the worldwide box office, as TMDB records them.

$25 million
in budgets
over 1 film with both sums
$236 million
at the box office
over 1 film with both sums
9.4×
return on budget
box office ÷ budget

US dollars as TMDB records them, not adjusted for inflation. 1 film of the 1 portraying them carries either sum.