The Six Triple Eight

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.

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

Reviews

CinemaSerf

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 fe...

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