Due to a high volume of active users and service overload, we had to decrease the quality of video streaming. Premium users remains with the highest video quality available. Sorry for the inconvinience it may cause. Donate to keep project running.
We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with our servers. We hope to have this resolved soon. This issue doesn't affect premium users.
Get Premium
Watch on MixDrop/MyStream
Oops...
Something went wrong
Try again later.
Something went wrong
Try again later.
Here You can choose a playback server.
Mercury 13
Description
In 1961, NASA agency announced that it wants some professional people to be astronauts, travel to the space. Many people applied their papers, both men and women. But lately NASA said that only men who can be selected to travel above, the thing which destroyed many women's dreams.
In 1961, NASA agency announced that it wants some professional people to be astronauts, travel to the space. Many people applied their papers, both men and women. But lately NASA said that only men who can be selected to travel above, the thing which destroyed many women's dreams.
Actors:
Gus Grissom,
John Young,
Jerrie Cobb,
Alan Shepard,
Nikita Khrushchev,
Rachel Handshaw,
Eileen Collins,
Yuri Gagarin,
Scott Carpenter,
Myrtle Cagle,
John Glenn,
...»
Gus Grissom
3 April 1926, Mitchell, Indiana, USA
John Young
September 24, 1930 in San Francisco, California, USA
Jerrie Cobb
Alan Shepard
November 18, 1923 in Derry, New Hampshire, USA
Nikita Khrushchev
April 17, 1894 in Kalinovka, Dmitriyev Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Khomutovka Raion, Kursk Oblast, Russia]
Rachel Handshaw
Eileen Collins
Yuri Gagarin
9 March 1934, Klushino, Gzhatskiy rayon, Zapadnaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Gagarinskiy rayon, Smolenskskaya oblast, Russia]
Scott Carpenter
May 1, 1925 in Boulder, Colorado, USA
Myrtle Cagle
John Glenn
18 July 1921, Cambridge, Ohio, USA
Genre:
Documentary
Director:
David Sington, Heather Walsh
Country:
United States
COMMENTS (0)
Sort by
Newest
Newest
Oldest
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
April 17, 2018
The documentary Mercury 13 goes way deeper into each of [its] points, and much more.
April 20, 2018
At a brisk and efficient 78-minutes, Mercury 13 is engaging, yet sadness and anger seeps in as it progresses.
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 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 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.
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 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 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
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 23, 2018
Echoes themes in Hidden Figures [...] watch this one right now.
April 25, 2018
The film from David Sington and Heather Walsh is a captivating experience ripe with sobering details.