The Six Triple Eight (2024) on Netflix
In 1943, mail to American soldiers has stalled and warehouses in Britain overflow with undelivered letters. Major Charity Adams and the all-Black 6888th Battalion are sent to clear the backlog.
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- Rotten Tomatoes55%
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Plot summary
Lena and Abram, childhood friends in 1940s Philadelphia, want a life together, though she is black and he is Jewish. Abram, a fighter pilot, is killed in action, and Lena enlists after graduating from school. In Georgia, Captain Charity Adams Earley and Lieutenant Abbie Noel Campbell train the enlistees, though the 6888th Battalion has no orders to go overseas. A West Virginian mother who waits for news of her two sons takes the problem to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, saying letters from relatives are severely delayed. President Roosevelt learns that supply shipments took priority over mail, and that millions of letters are stuck in Britain, a backlog several units have failed to clear. Mary MacLeod Bethune argues that Adams's unit is the one to do it.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Six Triple Eight (2024)
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- The U.S. Army renamed Fort Lee as Fort Gregg-Adams on April 27, 2023, to honor Adams, making it the first U.S. military base named for a black woman.
- The Six Triple Eight had a $70 million budget, which made it Tyler Perry's largest and most expensive production to date.
- The Six Triple Eight drew 52.4 million views in its first four weeks on Netflix, becoming Tyler Perry's most-watched film on the service to date.
