Taxi to the Dark Side

Taxi to the Dark Side

Taxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Alex Gibney, and produced by him, Eva Orner, and Susannah Shipman. It won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It focuses on the December 2002 killing of an Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar, who was beaten to death by American soldiers while being held in extrajudicial detention and interrogated at the Parwan Detention Facility at Bagram air base. It was part of the Why Democracy? series, which consisted of ten documentary films from around the world questioning and examining contemporary democracy. As part of this series, the documentary was broadcast in over 30 countries from October 8–18, 2007. The BBC showed the film in its Storyville series.

Genre: Crime, Documentary, War
Stars: Alex Gibney, Brian Keith Allen, Moazzam Begg, Christopher Beiring
Production: ThinkFilm
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
82
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
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2007
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Himself - Military Interrogator:
You put people into a crazy situation, people will do crazy things.

Sgt. Ken Davis:
People were told to rough up Iraqis that wouldn't cooperate. We were also told they're nothing but dogs. And all of a sudden you start looking at these people as less then human. And you start doing things to them you would never dream of. And that's were it got scary.

Himself - Military Interrogator:
The brass knew. They saw'em shackled, they saw'em hooded, and they said, "Right on! You're doing a great job."

Himself - President of the International League for Human Rights:
It's very clear that it starts in the office of Vice President Cheney. He had a very strong view that we were not as aggressive and dealing with people in interrogation as we could or should be.

George W. Bush:
More than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Many others have met a different fate. Lets put it this way: They're no longer a problem to the Unites States or our friends and allies.

Himself - US Army Colonel:
You've always got people in the military who are just this side of the Marquis de Sade.

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