Matthew Vandyke was a comfortable, educated young man, a beloved and pampered only child with a single mom, a girlfriend, and a nagging case of OCD. So naturally, he set out on a “crash course in manhood.” Following the lead of Australian he-man moviemaking adventurer Alby Mangels, he took a motorcycle through the Arab world (filming wherever he went), and made some Libyan friends along the way. But when the revolution against Qaddafi broke out, Vandyke stopped wondering what makes a man and just followed his heart: he couldn’t bear to watch his friends die on TV, so he flew off to join them. Writer-director Marshall Curry seems more interested in raising lots of questions than in probing for answers, which is mostly okay here. Many of those questions have to do with media: Vandyke was raised on action movies (as a boy, he declares, “I am the next Indiana Jones!”), but it isn’t until he’s filming the revolution while toting a gun that he realizes the camera’s real power to both report and distort. (2014) — Matthew Lickona
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