Hacksaw Ridge

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Statement of responsibility: Summit Entertainment and Cross Creek Pictures present, in association with Demarest Media and Argent Pictures ; produced in association with IM Global and AI Film Productions and in association with Vendian Entertainment and Kylin Pictures ; a Pandemonium Films / Permut Presentations production ; a Mel Gibson film ; produced by Bill Mechanic, David Permut, Terry Benedict, Paul Currie, Bruce Davey, Brian Oliver, William D. Johnson ; screenplay by Robert Schenkkan and Andrew Knight ; directed by Mel Gibson

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Summary: During the bloodiest battle of WWII, in Okinawa, Desmond Doss saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he singlehandedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss was the first conscientious objector to ever earn the Congressional Medal of Honor

Credits note: Director of photography, Simon Duggan ; editor, John GIlbert ; music, Rupert Gregson-Williams

Intended audience: Rating: R; for intense prolonged realistically graphic sequences of war violence, including grisly bloody images

Language note: In English or dubbed Spanish with optional Spanish subtitles; English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, English descriptive audio

PerformerNote: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths, Vince Vaughn

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