The Six Triple Eight
They were ordered to provide hope...
2024 · 2h 10m · PG-13 Drama, History, War
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.
Director and cast
- Kerry Washington as Charity Adams
- Sam Waterston as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Susan Sarandon as Eleanor Roosevelt
- Dean Norris as General Halt
- Oprah Winfrey as Mary McLeod Bethune
- Ebony Obsidian as Lena Derriecott King
- Milauna Jackson as Captain Campbell
- Kylie Jefferson as Bernice Baker
- Shanice Williams as Johnnie Mae (credited as Shanice Shantay)
- Pepi Sonuga as Elaine White
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