Hacksaw Ridge is a 2016 American biographical war film directed by Mel Gibson and written by Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan, based on the true story of Desmond Doss. It stars Andrew Garfield as Doss, with Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, and Rachel Griffiths.

The film follows Doss’s religious beliefs as a Seventh-day Adventist which prevented him from bearing arms, but did not prevent him from serving as a medic during World War II. Doss was the only American soldier in World War II to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that …