Hacksaw Ridge

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.

Desmond Doss, a World War II Army medic, was the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot – even though this conscientious objector saved dozens of lives in one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific front, Okinawa. Andrew Garfield plays Doss with the mix of grit, sweetness and tenacity that, he says, were the real man’s essential traits: “His impetus came from knowing violence within himself and knowing his own ability to do harm to others.

In Mel Gibson’s true-life epic Hacksaw Ridge, Andrew Garfield plays Desmond Doss, a Virginia farm boy who enlisted in the army as a medic during World War II but steadfastly clung to his pacifist Seventh Day Adventist faith refusing to touch a weapon. Doss was initially court-martialed by the army but having won the right to his conscientious objection and later proved uncommon bravery in the Pacific saving scores of wounded comrades while wholly unarmed in the face of fierce fighting.

Andrew Garfield plays Desmond Doss in Mel Gibson’s true-life epic Hacksaw Ridge. A Virginia farm boy who enlisted in the army as a medic during World War 2 but steadfastly clung to his pacifist 7th Day Adventist faith refusing to touch a weapon, Doss was initially court-martialed by the army but having won the right to his conscientious objection and later proved uncommon bravery in the Pacific saving scores of wounded comrades while wholly unarmed in the face of fierce fighting.