Robert Contee, Mel D. Cole, Daniel Hodges, Erica Loewe, Jamie Raskin, and Christina Laury appear in the film.

[1] Initially, The Fines sent a crew to capture Trump's speech, unaware of what was about to happen, before losing contact with their cinematographer Caz Rubacky and seeing the events of January 6 United States Capitol attack happen.

[4] Initially the film was set to be released on Amazon Prime Video alongside video-on-demand, but this plan was rolled back.

[9] Noah Gittel of The Washington City Paper wrote: "This is the power of the documentary form.

"[10] André Hereford from the Metro Weekly gave the film four out of five stars writing: "The Sixth delivers an urgent eyewitness chronicle of the Capitol under siege from people who feared for their lives that day.