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Promotional poster.
Woman in Motion is a documentary covering Nichelle Nichols's career as an actor in Star Trek and her work as a recruiter for NASA. It has a runtime of 1 hour and 36 minutes.
The film features extensive interview material with Nichols conducted by the documentary crew as well as archival interviews with the Archive of American Television (from October 2010), the talk show program Out of This World (from April 1977), William Miles's documentary Black Stars in Orbit (from March 1989), and other sources. Audio excerpts read by Nichols from her 1994 audio book Beyond Uhura are also featured as well as clips from promotional films made by Nichols's production company "Women in Motion" for NASA and the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, the latter in which she reprised her role of Uhura wearing her Starfleet uniform (mid 2270s).
Streaming rights in North America were handled by Shout Factory, facilitating streaming on a number of platforms including Paramount+, Peacock, Tubi, Vudu, and Kanopy.
The cast of other interviewees, in credits order, are Richard Alonzo, Thad Altman, Guion "Guy" Bluford, Jr., Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Jeremy Bulloch, Eileen Collins, Benjamin Crump, Ivor Dawson, Eric Deggans, Michael Dorn, Ed Dwight, Jr., Michael Eric Dyson, Ashley Eckstein, Kristen Ellenbogen, D.C. Fontana, Vivica A. Fox, Kathie Scobee Fulgham, Lori B. Garver, David Gerrold, Donna Gigliotti, Ed Gordon, Frederick D. Gregory, Joel Harlow, Alcee L. Hastings, Reginald Hudlin, Steven-Charles Jaffee, Harriett Jenkins, Kerry Mark Joels, Martin Luther King III, David Knight, Walter Koenig, John Lewis, Susan Marenoff-Zausner, Jon McBride, Sarah McNulty, Story Musgrave, Bill Nelson, Kerry O'Quinn, Ken Phillips, Charles Resnik, Barry Ressler, Rod Roddenberry, Kristina Rojdev, Allison Schroeder, Barbara L. Scott, Winston Scott, Bob Seick, Al Sharpton, John Spencer, Rick Sternbach, Cappy Surette, George Takei, David Teek, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Maxine Waters, Margaret Weitekamp, Lynn Whitfield, and Pharrell Williams, with additional appearances by Luca Capone, Brent Centlivre, Cooper Chapman, Audrey Hudson, Jaliyah Jasmine Kerston, Diana Clarice Lovell, Johanna Morgan, Natalie Pinder, Marian Roma, Alex Saranita, Ethan Manolo Thompson, Julian Oliver Thompson, and Paul Wilson.
Credits[]
- Directed by: Todd Thompson
- Story by: Tim Franta, David Teek, Todd Thompson
- Written by: Joe Millin, John McCall, Benjamin Crump
- Music: Colin O'Malley
- Director of Photography: Daniel Stilling
- Editor: Andy Painter
- Research: Alyce Diamandis
External link[]
- WomanInMotionMovie.com – official website