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      Taxi to the Dark Side

      R Released Jan 18, 2008 1 hr. 46 min. Documentary Crime Drama War List
      100% 93 Reviews Tomatometer 90% 5,000+ Ratings Audience Score This documentary explores the American military's use of torture by focusing on the unsolved murder of an Afhgani taxi driver who, in 2002, was taken for questioning at Bagram Force Air Base. Five days later, the man was dead. The medical examiner claimed the driver died from excessive physical abuse. Taking this case as a jumping-off point, the film examines wider claims of torture that occurred at bases like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay during the Bush administration. Read More Read Less Watch on Peacock Stream Now

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      Taxi to the Dark Side is an intelligent, powerful look into the dark corners of the War on Terror.

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      Gareth v A relentless, disturbing look into one of the ugliest chapters in recent American history. Gibney shows why he is regarded as one of the best doco makers out there. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 06/20/23 Full Review Michael M Taxi to the Dark Side is a deeply disturbing documentary which uses the death of a single man to extremely convincingly expose the wider moral and practical failure represented by the American use of torture during the War on Terror. This should be required viewing for anyone who wants to discuss the continued existance of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 09/07/21 Full Review Audience Member Just saw this recently and although its an important watch I already have gotten this information elsewhere so its hard to find this that fantastic when it was mostly repetitive information for me sadly. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review charlie l The subject covered here is both disturbing and harrowing, but sadly, not unexpected. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Really speaks for a documentary made in the Bush Era Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/17/20 Full Review Audience Member Alex Gibney's Oscar-winning documentary elicits the criminality of the Bush administration for its disregard of Geneva Conventions in the War on Terror is ironically what brings the American justice to its knees. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Caryn James New York Times Gracefully weaving together interviews (some with the soldiers convicted of the beating), fresh images and official photographs, it suggests why so many politically themed fiction films have failed. Nov 30, 2017 Full Review Ben Kenigsberg Time Out Rated: 4/5 Nov 18, 2011 Full Review J. R. Jones Chicago Reader Like the Iraq war documentary No End in Sight, this movie about the U.S. military's systematic torture of terror suspects is a triumph not of reporting but of synthesis. Aug 29, 2011 Full Review Mattie Lucas From the Front Row Gibney approaches his subject in a clear-eyed way that keeps the film from becoming a political screed. Rated: 3.5/4 Jul 6, 2019 Full Review Dorothy Woodend The Tyee (British Columbia) Taxi to the Dark Side. . .examines the war in Iraq with clear-eyed rage. Aug 23, 2017 Full Review Kelly Vance East Bay Express Filmmaker Gibney, whose involvement with anti-establishment exposés could conceivably mark him for his own eventual rendition by the forces of freedom, carefully guides us up the chain of command to the policy level. Apr 28, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis This documentary explores the American military's use of torture by focusing on the unsolved murder of an Afhgani taxi driver who, in 2002, was taken for questioning at Bagram Force Air Base. Five days later, the man was dead. The medical examiner claimed the driver died from excessive physical abuse. Taking this case as a jumping-off point, the film examines wider claims of torture that occurred at bases like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay during the Bush administration.
      Director
      Alex Gibney
      Executive Producer
      Don Glascoff, Sidney Blumenthal, Jedd Wider, Todd Wider, Robert Johnson
      Screenwriter
      Alex Gibney
      Distributor
      ThinkFilm
      Production Co
      Wider Film Projects, Discovery Channel, Tall Woods, Jigsaw Productions, X-Ray Productions
      Rating
      R (Graphic Nudity|Disturbing Images|Content Involving Torture)
      Genre
      Documentary, Crime, Drama, War
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jan 18, 2008, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Oct 21, 2019
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $274.7K
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