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.
Acting
Kerry Washington's quietly devastating command presence
Production
Meticulous period detail that honors without fetishizing
Writing
Tyler Perry's most restrained, research-heavy script yet
Director
Tyler Perry
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
Private Hugh Bell
Jeanté Godlock
Vera
Moriah Brown
Inez
Baadja-Lyne Odums
Susan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The actual 6888th sorted mail in bombed-out warehouses with no heat, rats, and windows blacked out — conditions the film barely exaggerates.
Congress finally awarded them the Congressional Gold Medal in 2022 — most members were already dead. This film IS the monument.
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"We have the most to prove!" Cut to the men risking their lives on the battlefield. Your trailer editor is a genius.
@robertmichel4063 2849
“unlike some other folks here, we have the most to prove” as it cuts to a male soldier runming through the hail of bullet.
@bercerus 1883
Netflix spent more on shill AI comment bots than they did on this movie.
@karmakazi219 1644
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