An animated series
They were sent to a war that did not want them. They came back with a name their enemies gave them.
In 1917 a regiment formed on the streets of Harlem. Men who could not vote in half the country that asked them to die for it.
France gave them a trench America would not. They held it for 191 days without relief — longer than any American regiment in the war.
The men on the other side of the wire started calling them Hellfighters. The name outlived the war. This series begins there, and asks what it would take for one man to earn it alone.
The 369th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army — the Harlem Hellfighters. Every invention in this series is built on top of what they actually did.
Consecutive days in the front-line trenches — longer than any other American unit of its size.
The regiment. Raised in Harlem, handed to the French Army to fight.
Men decorated with the French Croix de Guerre, plus a citation for the whole unit.
Years between Henry Johnson's night in the Argonne and his Medal of Honor.
Episode one lands January 1, 2027. The list gets it the moment it is live — before the trades, before social.
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One soldier left standing on a line that no longer exists, still holding it.
The 369th Infantry Regiment is real, and so is nearly every number on this page. The Hellfighter himself is not — he is a character built on top of that record. Where we invent, we invent forward from what happened, never over it.
January 1, 2027. Episode one lands on New Year’s Day. The list gets every reveal between now and then, and the episode the moment it is live.
Adult animation. It sits in the same room as a war film — depictions of combat, of the racism these men faced at home and in uniform, and of what that costs. Handled with weight, not spectacle.
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Episode one lands January 1, 2027. Leave an address and it reaches you the moment it is live.
Reveals, then the episode. Nothing else.
