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

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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