Hidden Figures is a movie which explores the racial discrimination experience by African American Women that living in the NASA company, US. This movie tells the story of Black women who work at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, Virginia, starting in the early 1940s. These women play an integral role in the development of American aviation and space technology.
This study focuses on the three main women characters in the movie. It used a qualitative descriptive method with several data collected, such as watched the movie and read the movie scripts, identified the data, and reduced the data.
This study aims at showing the racial discrimination portrayed in the movie and to identify the experience of prejudice that can be found in the film. The portrayal of racial discrimination in the NASA towards black women, as they are being treated differently compared to white workers, even if they actually are capable enough in the roles of working and become an engineer in NASA company. The depiction of prejudice issue towards black women, due to the history of black people in America, as they were slaves by history and not educated.
Keywords: hidden figures movie, discrimination, unequal, black women, NASA.