‘The Six Triple Eight’ Review: Kerry Washington And Exceptional Ensemble Bring Honor To Tyler Perry’s Stirring True WWII Story Of Black Female Army Unit

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Writer/Director Tyler Perry takes a step up as a versatile filmmaker in bringing Netflix’s inspiring WWII-set true story, The Six Triple Eight to the screen to tell the largely untold story of the Women’s Army Corps Unit Of Color and their heroic and important achievement during the war in Europe in 1945.

This unit was made up of over 855 women of color, mostly Black women who endured racism, sexism, grueling weather and conditions far beneath their male counterparts, only to become uncelebrated heroes themselves after being deployed to England, then France in order to make sure the letters from and back to home for soldiers landed in the right hands.

In a genre that has seemingly explored every possible story and angle of WWII in films made during it and after over the past 80 years, this is one that appears largely hidden, but now is getting the rightful screen treatment it so deserves.

In fact I kept thinking of the Oscar nominated 2016 film, Hidden Figures which focused on the then also uncelebrated Black women whose contributions to America’s space program finally came to light thanks to the movies.