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Hacksaw Ridge

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Directed by Mel Gibson

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. From TMDB

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Hacksaw Ridge is a 2016 drama history war film, directed by Mel Gibson, starring Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington and Vince Vaughn.

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  • TrekMovie.com @trekmovie.bsky.socialBluesky · May 9, 2025

    OTD, Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Conspiracy," with its unresolved ending that was never followed up on. Robert Schenkkan, who played Remmick, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and co-wrote the film Hacksaw Ridge.

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  • Wild Geerters @steinkobbe.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 20, 2024

    The violence in Hacksaw Ridge is the most brutally depicted I've seen in any war movie. Really makes me think I do not want to be on the receiving end of machine gun fire

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  • Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2025

    I went to the movies this weekend and saw a trailer for Mel Gibson’s new film “Flight Risk.” Nowhere in the trailer is Gibson mentioned by name (not even a top credits list!), and instead there was a note, “From the visionary director of Braveheart, Apocalypto, and Hacksaw Ridge” lmao

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  • Don_Dickle @[email protected]Lemmy · Mar 8, 2025

    Just watched the movie Hacksaw Ridge. Got me thinking can people in the military turn down an order because they disagree with it on sensible grounds? Like Trump ordering them to invade CN?.

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  • Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 25, 2026

    The film "Hacksaw Ridge" starring Andrew Garfield depicts these events. The Library's Veterans History Project is home to the Desmond Doss collection, (www.loc.gov/item/afc2001...) which contains a video interview with him from 2003, his Medal of Honor certificate, photos, and written testimonial.

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2025

    “One adult for the movie from the director of Braveheart, Apocalypto and Hacksaw Ridge please”

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  • E Denzer @edenzer.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 29, 2026

    On April 29, 1945, Conscientious objector Desmond Doss saves 75 wounded soldiers in the Battle of Okinawa at Hacksaw Ridge. Later depicted in the Oscar-winning film "Hacksaw Ridge"

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  • Dale Lane @dalelane.co.ukBluesky · Mar 27, 2026

    Hacksaw Ridge was the highlight of my #LastFourWatched for this #LetterboxdFriday First half was fun (Vince Vaughn was an excellent hardass sargeant). Second half was an uncomfortably uncompromising portrayal of a battle. Great film.

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  • Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2025

    It was informative to interview him when he was promoting “Hacksaw Ridge” The film is dir. by Mel Gibson and Vaughn was *frosty* when the topic of Gibson's past was broached. A showbiz veteran, he's no doubt had much media training in his career ... and yet www.chicagotribune.com/2016/11/03/v...

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  • Quang* @currentlyquang.xyzBluesky · Jun 6, 2026

    Hacksaw Ridge is a horrible movie made by a horrible man but at least we got this out of it.

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  • UKFilmNerd @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 23, 2024

    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Black and Chrome Edition 4K Blu-ray (Aug 13th). Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Black and Chrome Edition 4K Blu-ray =========================================================== Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release on 4K Bu-ray [*Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Black and Chrome Edition*](https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Furiosa-A-Mad-Max-Saga-Black-and-Chrome-Edition-4K-Blu-ray/366691/). The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on August 13. The studio will release [*Mad…

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  • 🦋TNGal °‧🫧⋆.ೃ࿔*:・🐾 @countrytngal.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 31, 2025

    Hacksaw Ridge isn’t just a war movie — it’s a gut-punch reminder of courage that doesn’t need a weapon. One man, no gun, and a soul strong enough to walk into hell and pull others out. You don’t watch it — you feel it. #MustWatch #HacksawRidge #CourageUnderFire youtu.be/802_EJMQbV8?...

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  • Lainwithtea @lainwithtea.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    I had someone take me on a movie date to see Hacksaw Ridge because they thought it was a slasher flick Boy howdy that was the most uncomfortable date I think Ive ever been on

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  • 🔞 read bio byf @bubbaluz.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2025

    Saw Hacksaw Ridge the other day and just found out its a mel Gibson movie 😭… i knew some shit was up with that film good lord 😭😭😭

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  • TCMFanatics @tcmfans.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2025

    Not a TCM classic, but an incredible film based on a true story. Hacksaw Ridge, Andrew Garfield, 2016

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  • WatW @theworldatwar.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2026

    Combat medic Desmond Doss treats a wounded comrade.Serving with the 307th Infantry Reg, 77th Infantry Div, Desmond saved 75 wounded soldiers at Okinawa, becoming the first conscientious objector awarded the Medal of Honor. His story inspired the 2016 film Hacksaw Ridge. #ww2 #pacific #hacksawridge

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  • Railhog Productions 🇺🇸🦅 @crossofbayonne.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 29, 2025

    #History #WorldWarII #Military Desmond Doss was a 7th day Adventist and medic who saved 75 fellow soldiers during the Battle Of Okinawa in 1945, His heroic feet was potrayed in the Mel Gibson film Hacksaw Ridge and was awarded the Medal Of Honor

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  • sddweqeqaqae.bsky.social @sddweqeqaqae.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 27, 2026

    In a world defined by violence, he chose compassion. In the middle of war, he chose to save lives. “Hacksaw Ridge” tells the story of a man whose strength came not from weapons, but from conviction. #Film #History #HacksawRidge

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  • Alex @Plane Sailing Games 🔜 Metatopia @planesailinggames.comBluesky · Oct 11, 2025

    Finally got around to watching Hacksaw Ridge. What a tremendous film about courage and conviction. Andrew Garfield was brilliant at the part. Desmond Doss himself was phenomenal.

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  • adhocfungus @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 6, 2024

    For a second I thought you meant that you watched Hacksaw Ridge in class.

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  • Zoë; commissions open! @tankpotzoe.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2026

    Wake a war film rubbish Hacksaw Ridge Duggan

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  • Rachel Darnall @trueconsolation.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2026

    My husband and I are on a war movie kick. We’ve watched Hacksaw Ridge, Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, and we’re in the middle of Band of Brothers. I will now take questions on my opinions about said movies, because I definitely have some.

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  • benwasserman.bsky.social @benwasserman.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2026

    Thing is... on the movie side there have been plenty of conservative filmmakers who made good movies, be it John Millus on Conan the Barbarian or Mel GIbson (yes, I know) with Hacksaw Ridge. But the Christian filmmaker approach (i.e. God's Not Dead model) is so lazy it feels amateurish.

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2026

    #Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge May 15 - movie character who is a conscientious objector Desmond Doss - Hacksaw Ridge (2016) #filmsky #moviesky

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  • IWW4 @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 14, 2025

    Fury is the most entertaining, though it has a number of places where it stumbles. The Thin Red Line is Malik at his worse, over stuffed cast, dull meandering story and just over stuffed laborious scene after another. Hacksaw Ridge is worth it just for Hugo Weaving’s parts.. wow. The problem with Hacksaw Ridge is what Desmond Doss did is just that incredible that Gibson had to dumb it down because there is no way the audience would believe it. Unfortunately, the end result is a real mess of…

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  • kalpol @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 14, 2025

    Fury is excellent but extremely depressing. Thin Red Line is a Terrance Malick movie so kinda....out there and not terribly realistic as I recall.. Haven't seen Hacksaw Ridge.

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  • bitwaba @[email protected]Lemmy · Mar 27, 2024

    He'll be back. Shit man, Mel Gibson disappeared for like 10 years after going all racist anti-semite on the phone yelling at his girlfriend that one time. Just laid low, then directed Hacksaw Ridge and everyone was just like "hey! He apologized, and this film was alright!"

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  • illy bocean 🏝️ @illybocean.boontavista.comBluesky · Jan 20, 2024

    Just rewatched Hacksaw Ridge (trying to remember what felt so very off about that movie when I first saw it) and other than Andrew Garfield and Vince Vaughn, *every* actor is Australian

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  • Brian @puckandbadjokes.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2026

    The Nice Guys was the best movie of 2016. Better than Moonlight. Better than La La Land. Better than Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Arrival. It should have won Best Picture by a landslide.

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  • Samantha Burns @cheesecakechik.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2025

    It’s not always the case but like Top Gun: Maverick? Action movie 1917? War movie Dunkirk? War movie Hacksaw Ridge? War movie Mad Max: Fury Road? Action movie American Sniper? War movie

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  • demoman @[email protected]Lemmy · Apr 3, 2025

    I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Hacksaw Ridge. The movie tells a true story based on Desmond Doss, an American conscientious objector who signed up for the army and became a medic. He won the Congressional Medal of Honor without firing a shot.

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  • Alice @bewinjamin.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 6, 2025

    And that’s the most he could say, “we fought so you would never have to. It was a war to end all wars”. He expressed a few stories exactly like the movie ‘ Hacksaw Ridge’ and his remorse for Highschool friends that didn’t make it home

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  • Jason Rainey @jraineyesq.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 28, 2025

    FWIW, I wasn't planning to watch The Fast and the Furious (I've seen it many times!), but it was the first movie I thought of that fit this hypothetical. Two movies I'm zeroing in on from my watchlist: Hacksaw Ridge Memories of Murder

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  • Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.ukBluesky · Jun 21, 2025

    “You wanna know the difference between me and you, Web Head? You quip, I equip - I’m locked and loaded against a war on these assholes. I’m putting a bullet in this fucker’s head - I hear my dead son, he’s begging me to do it.” “Have you seen this old film, Hacksaw Ridge?”

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  • Rob @rflixtv.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 11, 2025

    An excellent war film and deserves a watch. My ★★★★½ review of Hacksaw Ridge on Letterboxd boxd.it/9nApw3 #filmsky

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  • Victoria 🎀 @momentotori.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 22, 2025

    just watched Hacksaw Ridge and cried like a fucking baby at least 10 times. Damn good movie

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  • Richard Brooks @richardabrooks.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2026

    Make a war film rubbish Junior Hacksaw Ridge

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  • RandyLittlesMovies @randylittlesmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · May 20, 2026

    My ★★★★★ review of Hacksaw Ridge on @letterboxd: boxd.it/qfrWb

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  • Liberal Buddhist @liberalbuddhist.bsky.socialBluesky · May 16, 2026

    #Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge (May) #MovieSky #Filmsky #nightflight May-15 Movie character who is a conscientious objector Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

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  • Zay The 5’6 Giant @xaviersmith.blacksky.appBluesky · Apr 11, 2026

    The fact this nigga don’t have a movie is criminal. Like Hacksaw Ridge level of Lore.

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  • Wookie DEATH Day starring Bea Arthur @lumpawaroomd.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 21, 2026

    Recreating Hacksaw Ridge as seen in the film Do Not Fight a Battle at Hacksaw Ridge

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  • Trans Revolutionary Anarchist @traexecutive.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2025

    Absolutely fuck Mel Gibson but unfortunately, Hacksaw Ridge is a really good movie.

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  • Pauly82 @pauly1982.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2025

    30 Day Movie Challenge #moviesky #filmsky #filmchallenge 28/30 - Hacksaw Ridge (2016) A good movie from a genre I like the least, I'll say because I love movies.. all genres! War movies are my least favorite.

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  • Crucible Of Words @crucibleofwords.bsky.socialBluesky · May 10, 2025

    I just watched Hacksaw Ridge which was incorrectly listed under courtroom dramas because of one scene lol. Film was alright, although had some weird revelling in killing for a film about a conscientious objector and a few other odd choices. Performances were great tho.

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  • Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 29, 2025

    Andrew Garfield was nominated for an Oscar for playing Private Doss in the 2017 movie "Hacksaw Ridge." www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHwM...

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  • Alice @bewinjamin.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 6, 2025

    My father fought in the Pacific theater as a SeaBee Marine. It was Worse than the movie “Hacksaw Ridge”. He could not say much about his Highschool friends that were there with him and did not come home. He always said, “we fought so you would never have to”.

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  • kelr314 @kelr314.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2025

    i am starting a movie series in my home on Black History and WW2. knocked out Harriet Tubman, Fury, Hacksaw Ridge, Selma. if anyone has suggestions.. I have prime until July, so I am trying to get them in before. I think we are going to DC this spring, too. for the museums before they close them

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  • kelr314 @kelr314.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 30, 2025

    tonight's movie is Hacksaw Ridge. Watching those WW2 movies with the children to establish Nazis are the enemy.

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  • zalfano.bsky.social @zalfano.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 24, 2025

    The best part of this movie is the marketing, which promises a movie from “the director of Apocalypto and Hacksaw Ridge” and not Mel “Racist Asshole” Gibson, because the studio knows the director THEY hired is toxic af.

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  • Shane Hall @shanehall31.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2025

    Here comes a new movie from the Academy Award-winning Director of Braveheart, Appcalypto, and Hacksaw Ridge! Who is it? Well, we just told you! You don’t need to know his name! DON’T look it up!

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  • Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2025

    this reminds me; I saw a trailer for Mel Gibson's new film. It was hyped as "From The Director Of Apocalypto & Hacksaw Ridge", his name never actually shown on-screen. So Hollywood accepts that he's too toxic to publicise, but not too toxic to be allowed to make a film with a budget of $26.5 million

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  • Joseph Ritchie @darthmucky.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 17, 2024

    Introduce yourself with: One book — Ready Player One One movie — Hacksaw Ridge One album — Slippery When Wet; Bon Jovi One TV show — Outlander/Downton Abbey

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  • Aoife “Fe” Baker @vivaciousvandal.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 15, 2024

    Why do I love Hacksaw Ridge so much? I hate basically every other war movie but I rewatch this one every year. I would watch more movies about the stretcher-bearers in different wars.

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  • SCB @[email protected]Lemmy · Nov 23, 2023

    *Lone Survivor* is a great example of this, and a true story. The true story is actually crazier than the film, of all things. Kind of like *Hacksaw Ridge*.

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  • The Rt Hon Jess Phillips MP @supermickychow.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2023

    My favourite war film of the era. Up there with The Longest Day & Hacksaw Ridge

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  • Paul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2026

    12 October 1945 Private Desmond Doss of the medical corps became the first conscientious objector to win the Congressional Medal of Honour. He had distinguished himself in the Battle of Okinawa by saving 75 men. His exploits featured in the 2016 Hollywood film Hacksaw Ridge. #History #WW2

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  • Peter Paterson @[email protected]Mastodon · Sep 23, 2026

    I wanted to re-watch the excellent Andrew Garfield movie Hacksaw Ridge. However all the rentals were $3.99, so I ordered the DVD from Amazon for $6.99. It should be delivered today. #AndrewGarfield #HacksawRidge

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  • David - Fanta Se, NM 😎 (he/him/dude) @d4fords.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2026

    Yup I have no doubt. Just watched a documentary special about the medic (Desmond Doss) behind the movie Hacksaw Ridge. The only conscientious objector to ever recieve the Meddal of Honor. Quite an amazing story but he paid for it the rest of his life with severe PTSD.

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  • Rachel Darnall @trueconsolation.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2026

    Hacksaw Ridge is phenomenal, imo, but it's probably the most violent movie I've ever watched. But I feel like it kind of needed to be? And it was very unglamorous violence because it's from the perspective of a medic who actually has to try to fix people who get wounded in combat.

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  • TheStainlessSteelRat @llygodenfawrdur.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2026

    Not seen Oppenheimer yet, I know what am I like. Hacksaw Ridge is a great film, Andrew Garfield was brilliant. Dunkirk I found a little stolid. Yep 34 degrees here in South Wales and no AC anywhere🥵. Just been switched from one type of anti depressant to another to help regulate sleep.

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