At first glance, Matthew VanDyke—a shy Baltimore native with a sheltered upbringing and a tormenting OCD diagnosis—is the last person you’d imagine on the front lines of the 2011 Libyan revolution. But after finishing grad school and escaping the U.S. for "a crash course in manhood," a winding path leads him just there. Motorcycling across North Africa and the Middle East and spending time as an embedded journalist in Iraq, Matthew lands in Libya, forming an unexpected kinship with a group of young men who transform his life. Matthew joins his friends in the rebel army against Gaddafi, taking up arms (and a camera). Along the way, he is captured and held in solitary confinement for six terrifying months.
Marshall Curry
Writer, Director
Welcome to Chechnya69%
Room 23761%
For Sama82%
Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
Gilbert67%
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library64%
My Mom Jayne80%
Fuck64%
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish67%
Night Will Fall76%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere66%
Wick Is Pain74%
Trainwreck: Balloon Boy58%
Birth of the Living Dead67%
Boys State71%
A Decade Under the Influence79%
McQueen74%
Icarus76%
The Menendez Brothers72%
