Hacksaw Ridge vs In Darkness

Hacksaw Ridge has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 6.9/10 for In Darkness). Hacksaw Ridge is the shorter watch at 2h 19m compared with 2h 25m. In Darkness is the older of the two (2011 against 2016). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hacksaw Ridge posterHacksaw Ridge2016 VS In Darkness posterIn Darkness2011
Hacksaw RidgeIn Darkness
Audience score★ 8.2/10★ 6.9/10
Year20162011
Length2h 19m2h 25m
GenresDrama, History, WarDrama, War
Country––
DirectorMel GibsonAgnieszka Holland
Main castTeresa Palmer, Vince Vaughn, Richard Roxburgh, Firass Dirani, Hugo WeavingMichał Żurawski, Benno Fürmann, Aleksander Mincer, Agnieszka Grochowska, Herbert Knaup

Synopsis

Hacksaw Ridge

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.

In Darkness

A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lvov (formerly Poland).

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