If You Liked Hidden Figures, Watch These Next
Finished Hidden Figures (2016) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Hidden Figures, most of them are drama, history.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.A Million Miles Away(2023)
7.6DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
The life of engineer and former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández, the first migrant farmworker to go to space.
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3.Glory Road(2006)
7.4DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
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4.Contact(1997)
7.5DramaScience FictionMysteryAlso drama
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
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5.The Aviator(2004)
7.2DramaAlso drama
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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6.Driving Miss Daisy(1989)
7.2DramaAlso drama
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters, in a time when those types of relationships were shunned.
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7.Apollo 13(1995)
7.5DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert…
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10.Flamin' Hot(2023)
8.0DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
The inspiring true story of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay janitor who channeled his Mexican American heritage and upbringing to turn the iconic Flamin' Hot Cheetos into a snack that disrupted the food industry and became a global pop culture phenomenon.
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11.Richard Jewell(2019)
7.4DramaHistoryCrimeAlso drama and history
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
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12.Belfast(2021)
7.0DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.
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13.The Long Walk Home(1990)
7.7DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.
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14.The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951)
7.4Science FictionThrillerDramaAlso drama
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
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15.Fat Man and Little Boy(1989)
6.2DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent…
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17.The Boys in the Boat(2023)
7.2DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
The triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men's rowing team, who stunned the world by competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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20.Experimenter(2015)
6.5DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment,…
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