Seabiscuit
In 2003, a biopic about a wealthy racehorse owner who hires a boxer-turned-jockey (played by Toby Maguire) to ride his weak horse to victory in the Santa Anita Handicap of 1940. This movie is a tale about Depression-era America and how the lifestyle of the American elite clashed with that of the lower class.
Hidden Figures
This 2016 biography documents the lives of three women named Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughn (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae). These three Black women were the sole reason that NASA was able to perform the proper calculations to send a man to the moon in the 1960s. These unsung heroes have only recently been recognized as historical figures of substantial magnitude.
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