Brian Keith Allen, Greg D'Agostino, Karyn Plonsky
A stunning inquiry into the suspicious death of an Afghani taxi driver at Bagram air base in 2002, the film is a fastidiously assembled, uncommonly well-researched examination of how an innocent civil...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 30, 2008
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April 27, 2009
Persuasive film about military conduct and the ideologies that led to the torturing and eventual death of one man in particular, and how his story is a microcosm for what led to the Abu Ghraib scandal. Powerful material, to be sure, and the one man's tragic tale is affecting, bu...( read more)
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March 14, 2009
Possibly one of the best documentaries that I've seen in a long while. well researched and not biased in anyway....and will leave you feeling a little pissed at what the Bush administration allowed to happen.
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January 28, 2009
This is an excellent documentary built on hard facts. It shows the outrageous lengths that the US will go to and how damaging and tragic their methods can be. It's also a saddening depiction of how when the shit finally hits the fan it lands on those at the bottom of the ladder. ...( read more)
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November 3, 2008
I was initially incredibly hesitant to watch "Taxi to the Dark Side". First and foremost, we're all aware that the American military has relentlessly tortured suspected terrorists with a complete neglect of the Geneva Conventions. Knowing the horrors that lay ahead in a film like...( read more)
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November 24, 2009
Writer-director Alex Gibney's Oscar-winning documentary is a horrifying, unblinking and appalling account, confirming your worst fears about the terrible, no-good, very bad things that your government is up to in the name of protecting "freedom." It begins with an inquiry into th...( read more)
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July 22, 2009
Not the best documentary I've ever seen, but it had its points on interest. The overall point of the subject is made very quickly, yet the film dwells on torture and the types of torture for about an hour. 'I get it!' was all I was thinking. It tries to dig deeper to wider and fo...( read more)
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As our society searches its conscience for the correct balance between preserving American lives and upholding American values, Gibney offers a crucial perspective to counterbalance the influence of e... full review
Taxi to the Dark Side adds something new to our awareness -- interviews with soldiers who served as interrogators in Afghanistan, and in Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, and who, in some cases, ser... full review
If recent American history is ever going to be discussed with the necessary clarity and ethical rigor, Taxi to the Dark Side will be essential.
Alex Gibney's Taxi to the Dark Side is the documentary that many of us have prayed for, the one that could break through even to people who relish the torture set pieces on 24 and will hear no evil ab... full review
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