"One of the greatest heroes in American history never fired a bullet."

2016

2h 19m

8.2(14191 votes)

Drama

History

War

Overview

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.

Where to Watch

Stream

Links & Resources

Website IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Videos & Trailers

3 videos

Cast & Crew

94 members

Acting

Andrew Garfield

Desmond T. Doss

Acting

Sam Worthington

Captain Glover

Acting

Vince Vaughn

Sgt Howell

Acting

Teresa Palmer

Dorothy Schuttle

Acting

Luke Bracey

Smitty Ryker

Acting

Hugo Weaving

Tom Doss

Acting

Rachel Griffiths

Bertha Doss

Acting

Ryan Corr

Lieutenant Manville

Acting

Richard Roxburgh

Colonel Stelzer

Acting

Goran D. Kleut

Andy 'Ghoul' Walker

Acting

Luke Pegler

Milt 'Hollywood' Zane

Acting

Firass Dirani

Vito Rinnelli

Acting

Michael Sheasby

Tex Lewis

Acting

Nathaniel Buzolic

Harold "Hal" Doss

Acting

Ori Pfeffer

Irv Schecter

Acting

Matt Nable

Lt. Cooney

Acting

Jacob Warner

James Pinnick

Acting

Richard Pyros

Randall "Teach" Fuller

Acting

Ben Mingay

Grease Nolan

Acting

Harry Greenwood

Henry Brown

Acting

Damien Thomlinson

Ralph Morgan

Acting

Robert Morgan

Colonel Sangston

Acting

Milo Gibson

Lucky Ford

Acting

John Batziolas

Rescued Private Schulenburg

Acting

Charles Jacobs

Private Webb

Acting

Ben O'Toole

Corporal Jessop

Acting

James Lugton

Hiker

Acting

Kasia Stelmach

Hiker's Friend

Acting

Tim McGarry

Local Man

Acting

Tyler Coppin

Lynchburg Doctor

Acting

Dennis Kreusler

Sergeant Amos

Acting

Nico Cortez

Wal Kirzinski

Acting

Helmut Bakaitis

Minister

Acting

Bill Young

General Musgrove

Acting

Benedict Hardie

Captain Daniels

Acting

Darcy Bryce

Young Desmond

Acting

Philip Quast

Judge

Acting

James Mackay

Prosecutor

Acting

Sam Parsonson

96th Soldier Bob

Acting

James O'Connell

96th Soldier Page

Acting

Sean Lynch

Popeye

Acting

Hayden Geens

Wounded Private Blake

Acting

Tim Potter

Soldier Hank

Acting

Santo Tripodi

Soldier Carl

Acting

Nobuaki Shimamoto

Japanese Officer

Acting

Laurence Brewer

Head Doctor

Acting

Hiroshi Kasuga

Japanese Hanging Soldier

Acting

Yuki Nagashima

Rescued Japanese Soldier

Acting

Taki Abe

Japanese Sniper

Acting

Taka Uematsu

Reacting Japanese Soldier #2

Acting

Yoji Tatsuta

Japanese General

Acting

Thomas Unger

Stretcher Bearer

Acting

John Cannon

Corporal Cannon

No Image

Acting

Georgia Adamson

Receptionist

Acting

Andrew Sears

Private Maguire

No Image

Acting

Jim Robison

Private Bates

Acting

Nathan Baird

Private Green

No Image

Acting

Samuel R. Wright

Private Dixon

No Image

Acting

Mikael Koski

Private Giles

Acting

Troy Pickering

Private Tyler

No Image

Acting

James Moffett

Private Lewis

No Image

Acting

Roman Guerriero

Young 'Hal' Doss

No Image

Acting

Jarin Towney

Teenage Boy

Acting

Richard Platt

Flirting Hospital Soldier

No Image

Acting

Laura Buckton

Cinema Kissing Sweetheart

No Image

Acting

Anthony Rizzo

Cinema Kissing Soldier

No Image

Acting

Simon Edds

MP Gibbs

No Image

Acting

Thatcher McMaster

Company B Soldier

No Image

Production

Josh Dean Williams

Private Perry

No Image

Acting

Andrew Hansch

Bugle Player

No Image

Acting

Craig Reeves

Climbing Soldier

No Image

Acting

Adrian Twigg

Soldier - Death Throes

No Image

Acting

Luke McMahon

Stretcher Bearer

No Image

Acting

Bill Thompson

Wounded Soldier

No Image

Acting

William Takayanagi-Temm

Firing Japanese Soldier #1

No Image

Acting

Kazuaki Ono

Firing Japanese Soldier #2

No Image

Acting

Eric Taugherbeck

Wounded Private O'Conner

No Image

Acting

Ned Law

Rescued Private Horvath

No Image

Acting

Kazuki Yuyama

Corpse with Rats #2

No Image

Acting

Daisaku Takeda

Corpse With Rats #3

No Image

Acting

Raphael Sikic

Corpse with Rats #4

No Image

Acting

Ryuzaburo Naruse

Injured Japanese in Tunnel

No Image

Acting

Adam Bowes

Rescued Wounded Leg Soldier

Acting

Michael Hennessy

Rescued Private Moran

No Image

Acting

Benjamin McCann

Rescued Private Saareste

No Image

Acting

Daniel Thone

Stretcher Bearer

No Image

Acting

Nathan Halls

Private Tillson

No Image

Acting

Nicholas Cowey

Private Gregan

No Image

Acting

Charles Upton

Scared Military Officer

No Image

Acting

Toshiyuki Teramoto

Surrendering Soldier

No Image

Acting

Honsen Haga

Japanese General's Assistant

No Image

Crew

Milan Pulvermacher

Billy Bob (uncredited)

Acting

Yasushi Asaya

Japanese Soldier (uncredited)

Acting

Jeremy Costello

96th Battalion G.I (uncredited)

No Image

Similar Movies

8.5

2024

Papa

A 15-year-old boy murders his mother and sister. The father, Nin Yuen, returns to his cafe, haunted by memories of a once-happy family: his wife preparing breakfast, his son playing video games, and his daughter caring for their calico cat. Yuen finds himself unable to hate the living or forget the dead. As they confront life’s cruelty, will Yuen and his son’s strained relationship ever find redemption?

Movie

5.7

1991

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend.

Movie

6.6

1976

Midway

This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.

Movie

8.1

2003

Memories of Murder

During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first series of rape-and-murder cases.

Movie

7.3

1953

From Here to Eternity

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

Movie

5.4

2009

Hilde

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

Movie

6.7

1995

Dead Presidents

On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!

Movie

7.3

1994

Quiz Show

Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes.

Movie

6.9

1969

Battle of Britain

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.

Movie

7.3

2001

As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me

The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles and three endless years of uncertainty later, he is finally about to reach his destination... An edge of your seat drama that celebrates the power of the human spirit and the force of will, while inspired and impowered by love.

Movie

7.2

1999

Rosetta

Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is desperate to maintain a dignified job.

Movie

5.8

1979

1941

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

Movie

6.6

1985

The Emerald Forest

For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.

Movie

6.3

2006

The Hoax

In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.

Movie

6.1

2002

Tattoo

Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins a homicide investigation conducted by Chief Inspector Minks. The victim is a naked young woman with the skin stripped off her back, killed as she staggered into traffic. As Schrader and Minks investigate the murder, the case is complicated by a finger found in the stomach of the victim. Forensic examination proves the finger belongs to Nobert Günzel, who was previously convicted of rape and assault. The police raid Günzel’s residence, and discover a blood-stained table with restraints and bits of human flesh in his basement. They also find video equipment and preserved, tattooed skin from the victim’s back. Soon, they found dead bodies buried in the garden. Günzel then goes missing.

Movie

6.0

2005

Two for the Money

A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.

Movie

5.9

2005

Domino

The story of the life of Domino Harvey, who abandoned her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.

Movie

7.0

2007

Rescue Dawn

A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

Movie

6.2

1983

Uncommon Valor

A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.

Movie

6.7

1993

Swing Kids

The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazis begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is forced to face some tough choices about right, wrong, and survival.

Movie

Recommended Movies

7.5

2016

Manchester by the Sea

After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.

Movie

7.9

2016

La La Land

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Movie

6.9

2016

Fences

In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.

Movie

7.4

2016

Moonlight

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

Movie

7.5

2014

Fury

In the last months of World War II, as the Allies make their final push in the European theatre, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant named 'Wardaddy' commands a Sherman tank called 'Fury' and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

Movie

8.1

2016

Hidden Figures

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

Movie

8.0

2016

Lion

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Movie

7.3

2016

Hell or High Water

A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.

Movie

7.6

2016

Arrival

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

Movie

7.1

2016

Silence

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

Movie

8.2

1998

Saving Private Ryan

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.

Movie

6.9

2016

Deepwater Horizon

A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

Movie

7.9

2016

Captain Fantastic

Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, beginning a journey that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent.

Movie

7.2

2016

Sully

On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 souls aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.

Movie

6.8

2016

Allied

In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

Movie

7.0

2016

Passengers

A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.

Movie

6.5

2016

Jackie

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

Movie

7.1

2016

Patriots Day

In the aftermath of an unspeakable act of terror, Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders joins courageous survivors, first responders and investigators in a race against the clock to hunt down the Boston Marathon bombers before they strike again.

Movie

7.5

2017

Dunkirk

The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

Movie

7.1

2016

The Founder

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

Movie

Cinemaos

Overview

Where to Watch

Links & Resources

Production Companies

Videos & Trailers

Cast & Crew

Andrew Garfield

Sam Worthington

Vince Vaughn

Teresa Palmer

Luke Bracey

Hugo Weaving

Rachel Griffiths

Ryan Corr

Richard Roxburgh

Goran D. Kleut

Luke Pegler

Firass Dirani

Michael Sheasby

Nathaniel Buzolic

Ori Pfeffer

Matt Nable

Jacob Warner

Richard Pyros

Ben Mingay

Harry Greenwood

Damien Thomlinson

Robert Morgan

Milo Gibson

John Batziolas

Charles Jacobs

Ben O'Toole

James Lugton

Kasia Stelmach

Tim McGarry

Tyler Coppin

Dennis Kreusler

Nico Cortez

Helmut Bakaitis

Bill Young

Benedict Hardie

Darcy Bryce

Philip Quast

James Mackay

Sam Parsonson

James O'Connell

Sean Lynch

Hayden Geens

Tim Potter

Santo Tripodi

Nobuaki Shimamoto

Laurence Brewer

Hiroshi Kasuga

Yuki Nagashima

Taki Abe

Taka Uematsu

Yoji Tatsuta

Thomas Unger

John Cannon

Georgia Adamson

Andrew Sears

Jim Robison

Nathan Baird

Samuel R. Wright

Mikael Koski

Troy Pickering

James Moffett

Roman Guerriero

Jarin Towney

Richard Platt

Laura Buckton

Anthony Rizzo

Simon Edds

Thatcher McMaster

Josh Dean Williams

Andrew Hansch

Craig Reeves

Adrian Twigg

Luke McMahon