Point and Shoot
2014•1h 22m•6.4•Released
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.
Director
Marshall Curry
Writer
Marshall Curry
Languages
English
Studio
Marshall Curry Productions
Cast
Matthew Vandyke
Himself
Production
Company
Marshall Curry Productions
Company
P.O.V./American Documentary
Company
ITVS International
Company
The Orchard
Producer
Elizabeth Martin
Producer
Marshall Curry
Producer
Matthew Vandyke
Recommended
6.9
Welcome to Chechnya
2020
6.7
Gilbert
2017
5.8
The Dogs of War
1980
6.5
Father Soldier Son
2020
7
The System
2022
7.9
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
6.1
Room 237
2012
6.4
Fuck
2006
6
Rampage: Capital Punishment
2014
7.5
Listen to Me Marlon
2015
8
My Mom Jayne
2025
6.4
The Commuter
2018
7.3
Zero Days
2016
6.2
Chief of Station
2024
8.2
For Sama
2019
7.1
Boys State
2020
7.5
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski
2018
6.8
Sniper: The Last Stand
2025
7.6
Night Will Fall
2014
6.1
God Is a Bullet
2023
Similar Movies
6.3
Mad Dog: Gaddafi's Secret World
2014
7.2
Nobody
2017
7.9
Maidan
2014
Granny's Flags
2013
7.8
In the Intense Now
2017
6
BORN ON 25TH OF JANUARY
2011
8
Atatürk, Father of Modern Turkey
2023
6.5
Here and Elsewhere
1976
8
AI Evolution
2024
Donga
2023
6
Art as a Weapon
2014
10
USSR (1917-1991)
2024
7
Les Magnifiques sauvages
2023
8
You are Not a Soldier
2021
Maos China, Protokolle einer Revolution
1974
The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
2019
1798 - Revolta dos Búzios
2024
7
First Case, Second Case
1979
6.3
The Russian Revolution
2017
6.4
Benito Mussolini: Anatomy of a Dictator
1962