Mercury 13 (film)

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Mercury 13
The poster for the film shows a rocket traveling through space, leaving a trail of brightly colored smoke in its wake.
Directed by
Produced by
  • David Sington
  • Heather Walsh
  • Trevor Birney
  • Brendan Byrne
  • Geraldine Creed
CinematographyNickolas Dylan Rossi
Edited by
  • David Fairhead
  • Paul Holland
Music byPhilip Sheppard
Production
company
Distributed byNetflix

Mercury 13 is a 2018 documentary film about Mercury 13, a privately funded program that trained American women to be astronauts.

Critical reception[]

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes assigned the film an approval rating of 100% based on 24 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The site's consensus reads: "Mercury 13 offers yet another sobering example of how institutionalized sexism has thwarted countless dreams -- and held nations back from their full potential".[1]

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References[]

  1. ^ "Mercury 13 (2018)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 1, 2019.

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