The Six Triple Eight

“They were ordered to provide hope...”

7.5(642)20242h 10m

DramaWarHistory

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months.

Director

Tyler Perry

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Cast

Kerry Washington

Charity Adams

Sam Waterston

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Susan Sarandon

Eleanor Roosevelt

Dean Norris

General Halt

Oprah Winfrey

Mary McLeod Bethune

Ebony Obsidian

Lena Derriecott King

Milauna Jackson

Captain Campbell

Kylie Jefferson

Bernice Baker

Shanice Williams

Johnnie Mae (credited as Shanice Shantay)

Pepi Sonuga

Elaine White

Sarah Jeffery

Dolores Washington

Jay Reeves

Private Hugh Bell

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1 review

Geronimo1967

1y ago

6.0

When it's brought to the attention of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (Susan Sarandon) that the soldiers fighting in Europe aren't getting their morale-bolstering mail, she convinces her husband (Sam Waterston) that something has to be done about it. Meantime, a regiment of African American women is festering away at a fort awaiting, in vain, orders that will get them meaningfully employed. Well! Now...