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Taxi to the Dark Side

Alex Gibney, 2007

Film Description

Awarded Best Documentary Feature at the 2007 Oscars, this is a gripping investigation into the shocking mistreatment of United States' prisoners of War held in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.

This disturbing and often brutal film is the most incisive examination to date of the Bush Administration's willingness to undermine human rights in its prosecution of the 'war on terror'. By probing the torture and death of an innocent taxi driver in 2002 at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, the film exposes a policy of detention and interrogation that condones torture and grants immunity to government officials for crimes against humanity.

Incorporating never-before-seen images from inside the Bagram, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prisons, and interviews with former government officials, interrogators, prison guards, New York Times reporters Tim Golden and Carlotta Gall and the families of tortured prisoners, Taxi to the Dark Side seeks to ask and answer a key question: what happens when a few men expand the wartime powers of the executive to compromise the very principles on which the United States was founded?

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DVD Extras

Special Features TBC: Deleted scenes
Audio Commentary by Alex Gibney
Documents and photo gallery.

Film Details

Director	Alex Gibney
Year	2007
Country	USA

Technical Details

Certificate	15
Length	102 mins
Label	REV
Format	DVD Colour
Region	2
Aspect	16:9
Cat No	REVD2110
Main Language	English
Subtitles	None