HACKSAW RIDGE is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss [Andrew Garfield] 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 single-handedly 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.