''Mercury 13'' is a 2018 documentary film about the

Mercury 13 The Mercury 13 were thirteen American women who took part in a privately funded program run by William Randolph Lovelace II aiming to test and screen women for spaceflight. The participants—First Lady Astronaut Trainees (or FLATs) as Jerrie C ...

, thirteen American woman pilots who in 1960 took and passed the same tests given the previous year to the

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, the

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s selected by

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for

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assigned the film an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . 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."

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* 2018 films 2018 documentary films Netflix original documentary films Documentary films about the space program of the United States + Documentary films about women 2010s English-language films {{bio-documentary-film-stub

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