Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve ...

During the First World War, unenthusiastic enlistees would fake disability to avoid dying in a muddy trench. That's how the "war hero" of Jaroslav Hašek's classic novel The Good Soldier Švejk winds up ...

It is the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and the Houston airport is spilling over with people. One of them is running for president of the United States, but to the rest he remains anonymous, just another ...

Skillfully interweaving the stories of five different servicemen from four different conflicts, “The Good Soldier” is a surprisingly nondoctrinaire docu about anti-war veterans that marches to its own ...