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The Six Triple Eight (2024)

PG-1312/06/2024Drama, War, History2h 10m

They were ordered to provide hope...

Overview

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.

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    Kerry Washington

    Charity Adams

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    Sam Waterston

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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    Susan Sarandon

    Eleanor Roosevelt

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    Oprah Winfrey

    Mary McLeod Bethune

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    Ebony Obsidian

    Lena Derriecott King

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    Shanice Williams

    Johnnie Mae (credited as Shanice Shantay)

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    Kylie Jefferson

    Bernice Baker

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    Sarah Jeffery

    Dolores Washington

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    Pepi Sonuga

    Elaine White

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 they have a task, and under the command of their newly promoted Maj. Adams (Kerry Washington) are posted to Europe. They are unaware of the sale of their project until presented with half a dozen eno...