Hacksaw Ridge / Summit Entertainment and Cross Creek Pictures present in association with Demarest Films and Argent Pictures; a Pandemonium Films / Permut Presentations production; a Mel Gibson film; produced by David Permut, Bill Mechanic, Brian Oliver, William D. Johnson, Bruce Davey, Paul Curry and Terry Benedict; screenplay by Robert Schenkkan and Andrew Knight ; directed by Mel Gibson.
Publisher:
Lionsgate,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Widescreen format. Originally released as a motion picture in 2016. Special features: deleted scenes; Veterans Day greeting with Mel Gibson. Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving.
Summary:
The extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, 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.
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