The Six Triple Eight (2024)
They were ordered to provide hope...
Director: Tyler Perry · Writer: Tyler Perry
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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Director
Tyler Perry
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
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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 enormous hangars full to the brim of rotting envelopes, packages and their fair share of rats. Chief amongst the newly arrived soldiers is "Lena" (Ebony Obsidian) who joined up after her beau "Abram" (Gregg Sulkin) went off to war as a pilot and was reportedly killed in action. She, and her determined …
