⚡ Taxi To The Dark Side

Carolyn WoodUnited States Army captain, is a military intelligence officer who served in both An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge and Iraq. What comes next, taxi to the dark side your playbook? What do we look for now? Dilawar was the first casualty after we started to "work the dark side. Wall Street Journal.

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Corsetti was a soldier in the United States Army. As part of the Army's investigation into prisoner abuse at Bagram, Corsetti was charged with dereliction of duty, maltreatment, assault and performing an indecent act with another person. PFC Corsetti was later found not guilty of all charges. Carlotta Gall is a British journalist and author. Jan Baz Khan is a citizen of Afghanistan who allegedly turned over innocent men to American troops in the beginning of the war in Afghanistan. The Parwan Detention Facility is Afghanistan's main military prison. Bush administration. Orner's directorial debut, The Network , a feature documentary set behind the scenes of Afghanistan's largest television station, premiered in the US in March Joshua R.

In , he was found guilty of maltreatment and assault against an Afghanistan detainee who later died. Tarek Dergoul is a citizen of the United Kingdom of Moroccan origin who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. He spent six or seven months in US custody in Afghanistan, prior to his arrival at Guantanamo on May 5, After he was repatriated to the United Kingdom on March 8, , he asserted that conditions in US detention camps were brutal, and he was coerced to utter false confessions.

Parkhudin is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the Bagram Collection Point and in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was On January 16, , the United States Department of Defense complied with a court order and made public a heavily redacted list of the detainees held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility. Detainees were initially held in primitive, temporary quarters, in what was originally called the Bagram Collection Point, from late Detainees were later moved to an indoor detention center until late , when newly constructed facilities were opened.

Andy Worthington is a British historian, investigative journalist, and film director. He has published three books, two on Stone Henge and one on the war on terror, been published in numerous publications and directed documentary films. Release date. April 30, Running time. Black Hole". The New Republic. Archived from the original on May 9, Retrieved World Socialist Web Site. Retrieved 17 November Treatment of Detainees". Wall Street Journal.

Archived from the original on January 2, Retrieved January 11, Rotten Tomatoes. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on July 5, Democracy Now. Retrieved February 20, Retrieved 26 September The New York Times. Alex Gibney. Hunter S. The Looming Tower Agents of Chaos Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Yet I know I will get the usual e-mails accusing me of partisanship, bias, only telling one side, etc. What is the other side? See this movie, and you tell me. Read full review. Chris Kaltenbach. It is, at once, among the most riveting and hard-to-watch documentaries of recent years. Matthew Sorrento. Just as Bardem's menacing Chigurh approaches his targets in "No Country," American military administrators approached Afghan detainees with shackles and convoluted policy in their pockets.

If recent American history is ever going to be discussed with the necessary clarity and ethical rigor, this film will be essential. Elizabeth Weitzman. Alex Gibney's forceful documentary starts with a single tragedy: the torture of an Afghani prisoner at Bagram Air Base. By the time it's over, he's broadened his focus into a documentary so damning of the U. Jennie Punter. Relentless, thorough and devastating. John Anderson. It's about torture as policy. User Score. Write a Review. User Reviews. AnthonyS Nov 3, This is an incredibly moving documentary. At one point I burst into tears out of shame for my country and sadness for Delawar's death. I would force every supporter of torture to see this film before they attempt to justify such inhumanity. PeterK Feb 28, An invaluable film that documents the flat-out lies and public deceits that the Bush regime military, White House, and CIA has used to subvert the fundamentals of the American institution of democracy and over years of English law in its monomaniacal pursuit of "the bad guys.

This truly is a Must-See film, even if it is a documentary. Be ready for disturbing images that include nudity and torture. People, this is about what OUR government has been doing in the name of democracy. AgathaX Mar 21, I did not want to go see this movie, and in truth I spent substantial amounts of time with my eyes hidden. But everyone needs to see this documentary, for the only thing it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing. It was an exquisite and deeply patriotic movie. A call to action. JayH Sep 18, Bush is such a lying scumbag.

How can America allow him to stay in office? How could so many people be so stupid to vote for him? Moving, infuriating documentary, superbly pieced together and well researched. Using the capture, torture and subsequent death of a seemingly innocent Afghanistani taxi-driver as a starting point, Taxi to the Dark Side, explores the United States treatment of prisoners during the so called 'war on terror' instigated by George W Bush and his administration during the Using the capture, torture and subsequent death of a seemingly innocent Afghanistani taxi-driver as a starting point, Taxi to the Dark Side, explores the United States treatment of prisoners during the so called 'war on terror' instigated by George W Bush and his administration during the mid 's.

Filmmaker Alex Gibney never shy's away from asking people the tough questions and his interviews with those involved in the torture, and experts on interrogation, reveals the shocking truth about what went on in Parwan Detention Facility and Guantanamo Bay. With its subject nature, and use of disturbing imagery to illustrate its case, Taxi to the Dark Side is not an easy watch in places but anyone in any doubt as to the use of torture in warfare needs to see this film.

BrandenR Oct 31, I saw this film after a podcast I listen to, Cinebanter, mentioned it. I caught this on HBO.