Hacksaw Ridge vs Promise at Dawn

Hacksaw Ridge has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 7.3/10 for Promise at Dawn). Promise at Dawn is the shorter watch at 2h 10m compared with 2h 19m. Hacksaw Ridge is the older of the two (2016 against 2017). Both are drama, history, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hacksaw Ridge posterHacksaw Ridge2016 VS Promise at Dawn posterPromise at Dawn2017
Hacksaw RidgePromise at Dawn
Audience score★ 8.2/10★ 7.3/10
Year20162017
Length2h 19m2h 10m
GenresDrama, History, WarDrama, History, Romance, War
Country––
DirectorMel GibsonEric Barbier
Main castTeresa Palmer, Vince Vaughn, Richard Roxburgh, Firass Dirani, Hugo WeavingCatherine McCormack, Pierre Niney, Bastien Bouillon, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Arieh Worthalter

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.

Promise at Dawn

From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.

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