Nominated for six Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director for Mel Gibson and Best Actor for Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge is the extraordinary true story of WWII army medic Desmond Doss. During one of the bloodiest battles in Okinawa Doss miraculously saved 75 men in a matter of hours without firing or carrying a gun.
Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) in Hacksaw Ridge. Photo: Lionsgate
Garfield plays this American soldier who was the only one in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon. His courage was exemplified in the simple prayer he uttered as he single-handedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers, was wounded by a grenade, and hit by snipers.
Doss was the first conscientious objector of WWII to ever earn the Congressional Medal of Honor (he called himself a “conscientious cooperator” as he volunteered).
Garfield talks about the relationship Doss had with his father and how that ultimately the particular “unmet yearnings” and “wounds” may have been what gave him the capacity to save others.
Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) on the battlefield. Photo: Lionsgate
