Documentary
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.
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IMDB 8 | May , 2014
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IMDB 9 | Apr , 2024
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IMDB 7 | Jan , 1990
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IMDB 7.8 | Jan , 2015
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IMDB 6.3 | Dec , 2007
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IMDB 8 | Feb , 2009
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IMDB 0 | Apr , 2015
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IMDB 0 | Jul , 2020
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2003
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IMDB 6.3 | Feb , 2014
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2019
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IMDB 0 | Jun , 2003
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IMDB 5.8 | Jan , 2009
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IMDB 6.5 | Oct , 2017
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IMDB 10 | Jun , 2016
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IMDB 7.5 | Nov , 1997
A retrospective look at the anarcho-syndicalist and anarcho-communist experience in Spain from 1930 until the end of the Civil War in 1939.1848
IMDB 0 | Mar , 1950
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IMDB 8.5 | Oct , 2021
Donga
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2023
“There was excitement in the air,” says Donga, now in his late twenties, describing his feelings when the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi’s rule broke out in 2011. He was 19, living in Misrata, and boldly went to film the fighting with a friend. A decade later, in a hotel in Istanbul, where he has been living since he was wounded in battle, he looks back on the past ten years through excerpts from his videos. And he reflects on how that period has affected him.Route 4
IMDB 8 | Nov , 2021