The soldier is one of the film’s most enduring and popular figures. Tom Cruise in Born on the Fourth of July, Charlie Sheen in Platoon, Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan… Whether he is the hero who serves as an example to all, or the ordinary man in search of survival, the soldier crystallizes and personalizes the power issues of war. The Good, the Bad and... the Soldier sets out to put a face of this soldier of the big screen, through famous film examples, interviews from those in the world of cinema, historians and testimonials from real-life former privates..