Mercury 13
An American documentary follows the NASA's tests in 1961 which were held to choose the qualified people to travel to the space. But unfortunately many women dropped their dreams when the agency decided that only men would be chosen for the travel.
May 1, 1925 in Boulder, Colorado, USA
November 18, 1923 in Derry, New Hampshire, USA
26 October 1947, Chicago, Illinois, USA
3 April 1926, Mitchell, Indiana, USA
March 6, 1927 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA
March 1, 1924 in Sparta, Wisconsin, USA
27 August 1908, Stonewall, Texas, USA
September 24, 1930 in San Francisco, California, USA
18 July 1921, Cambridge, Ohio, USA
April 23, 2018
An essential documentary look at yet another example of historical feminism that should never have been forgotten: the first American in space might have and probably should have been a woman.
April 23, 2018
Honestly, if this film doesn't grab you by the heart, check your pulse to make sure you still have one.
April 19, 2018
A soaring tribute to some aviation pioneers.
April 17, 2018
The documentary Mercury 13 goes way deeper into each of [its] points, and much more.
April 25, 2018
The film from David Sington and Heather Walsh is a captivating experience ripe with sobering details.
April 20, 2018
At a brisk and efficient 78-minutes, Mercury 13 is engaging, yet sadness and anger seeps in as it progresses.
April 24, 2018
They didn't get the chance to take a step on the moon, but they still made a giant leap for womankind - and it's about time their names were known.
April 09, 2018
An engaging blend of modern-day interviews and archival footage, Mercury 13 complicates the traditional narrative of triumph surrounding the Mercury missions of the '60s and their culmination with the moon landing.
April 23, 2018
Echoes themes in Hidden Figures [...] watch this one right now.
April 17, 2018
A portrait of the "astronettes" who, like the human computers of "Hidden Figures" ae forgotten women of the early days of the space program.
April 20, 2018
This is the sort of film that begins modestly-seemingly only a piece of curious history-and grows steadily deeper as it moves to its climax, and that climax is a powerful one.
April 18, 2018
Though modest in its artistic aims, it's a polished piece of work which has evidently benefited from the luxury of time in both the research stage and the editing suite.
