Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
- Directed by
- Alex Gibney
- Genre
- documentary film, war film, crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 258 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary investigates the 2002 death of an Afghan taxi driver killed by American soldiers at a Bagram air base. It examines the broader use of torture and detention policies in the war on terror.
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What happens
Taxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Alex Gibney, and produced by Gibney, 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 a black site at Bagram air base. It was part of the Why Democracy? documentary film series produced by The Why Foundation. The series 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Battle for Marjah (2010)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.