Mercury 13 (2018)

Directed by

David Sington

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 18m

Rated

6

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 59 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary profiles thirteen women pilots who passed the same rigorous physical and psychological tests as the male Mercury astronauts in 1960. It tells how they were ultimately excluded from the space program due to gender discrimination.

informativeinspiringrevealinghistoricalunderdognostalgicthought-provokingearnest

What happens

Mercury 13 is a 2018 documentary film about the Mercury 13, thirteen American woman pilots who in 1960 took and passed the same tests given the previous year to the Mercury 7, the astronauts selected by NASA for Project Mercury. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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