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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Alex Gibney (written by)
Release Date:
13 June 2008 (UK)
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In 2002, a young cab driver picked up a few passengers near his home in Afghanistan... He never returned.
Plot:
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002. full summary | full synopsis
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Torture
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Afghanistan
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Taxi
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Guantanamo Bay
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Taxi Driver
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Awards:
Won Oscar.
Another 9 wins
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2 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(13 articles)
2010 Sundance Film Festival Line-up Unveiled
(From Rope Of Silicon. 2 December 2009, 3:19 PM, PST)
Gibney Talks Casino Jack and Three More Docs for 2010
(From Thompson on Hollywood. 15 November 2009, 1:42 PM, PST)
(From Rope Of Silicon. 2 December 2009, 3:19 PM, PST)
Gibney Talks Casino Jack and Three More Docs for 2010
(From Thompson on Hollywood. 15 November 2009, 1:42 PM, PST)
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Blood from a Turnip
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Alex Gibney | ... | Narrator (voice) | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Brian Keith Allen | ... | Soldier - New York studio shoot reenactment | |
| Moazzam Begg | ... | Himself - Torture victim (as Moazzam Beg) | |
| Christopher Beiring | ... | Himself - Captain | |
| Willie Brand | ... | Himself - Military police | |
| George W. Bush | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Jack Cafferty | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Brian Cammack | ... | Himself - Military police | |
| William Cassara | ... | Himself - Attorney | |
| Doug Cassel | ... | Himself - Professor | |
| Dick Cheney | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Jack Cloonan | ... | Himself - Former FBI agent | |
| Damien Corsetti | ... | Himself - Military interrogator | |
| Thomas Curtis | ... | Himself - Sergeant, military police | |
| Greg D'Agostino | ... | Soldier - New York studio shoot reenactment | |
| Lynndie England | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| Tommy Franks | ... | Himself - General (archive footage) | |
| Carlotta Gall | ... | Herself - New York Times reporter | |
| John Galligan | ... | Himself - Attorney | |
| Frank Gibney | ... | Himself (as Frank B. Gibney) | |
| Tim Golden | ... | Himself - New York Times reporter | |
| Alberto Gonzales | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Charles A. Graner | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Gita Gutierrez | ... | Herself - Attorney | |
| David Hayden | ... | Himself - Colonel (archive footage) | |
| Donald O. Hebb | ... | Himself - Behavioral Psychologist | |
| Scott Hennen | ... | Himself (archive footage) (voice) | |
| Jay Hood | ... | Himself - Brigadier General | |
| Scott Horton | ... | Himself - President of the International League for Human Rights | |
| John Hutson | ... | Himself - Rear admiral, retired | |
| Maan Kaassamani | ... | Detainee - New York studio shoot reenactment | |
| Anthony Lagouranis | ... | Himself - Military intelligence (as Tony Lagouranis) | |
| Eric Lahammer | ... | Himself - Military interrogator | |
| Carl Levin | ... | Himself - Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee | |
| Steven Loring | ... | Himself - Sergeant | |
| John McCain | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Alfred W. McCoy | ... | Himself - Professor of political history | |
| James McGarrah | ... | Himself - Rear Admiral | |
| Dan McNeill | ... | Himself - General (archive footage) (voice) | |
| Geoffrey D. Miller | ... | Himself - Major General (archive footage) | |
| Alberto J. Mora | ... | Himself - General Counsel of the US Navy, retired | |
| Anthony Morden | ... | Himself - Sergeant, military police | |
| Dan Mori | ... | Himself - Major | |
| Richard Myers | ... | Himself - General, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (archive footage) | |
| Karyn Plonsky | ... | Soldier - New York studio shoot reenactment | |
| Colin Powell | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Jack Reed | ... | Himself - Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee (archive footage) | |
| Condoleezza Rice | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| Donald Rumsfeld | ... | Himself - U.S. Secretary of Defense (archive footage) | |
| Selena Salcedo | ... | Herself - Sergeant | |
| Randall M. Schmidt | ... | Himself - Lieutenant General | |
| Clive Stafford Smith | ... | Himself - Lawyer | |
| Glendale Walls | ... | Himself - Military intelligence | |
| Lawrence Wilkerson | ... | Himself - US Army colonel, retired | |
| Tom Wilner | ... | Himself - Attorney | |
| Carolyn A. Wood | ... | Herself - Captain (archive footage) | |
| John Yoo | ... | Himself - US Department of Justice | |
Additional Details
MPAA:
Rated R for disturbing images, and content involving torture and graphic nudity.
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Runtime:
106 min | Finland:53 min (TV)
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USA:R |
Argentina:13 |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:14A (Alberta/Manitoba) |
Canada:R (British Columbia) |
Canada:13+ (Québec) |
Canada:18A (Ontario) |
Australia:MA
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Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (2008-02-23)" (2008)
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Yep, it is another one of those Iraq and Afghanistan documentaries. I know the burnout rate is high on these, which is probably why I almost did not bother, but nothing else was showing. Man, was I happy I saw this! It has rekindled my hate for the Bush administration, which had turned to apathy over the last year. This tells the story of an Afghani taxi driver that is mistakenly picked up as a Taliban supporter, but before they find out he was innocent, he has been beaten to death by his American torturers.
This film has interviews from all of the guards that were responsible, JAG officers, FBI people, CIA agents on the ground etc. And you see that all of the blame lies with Ashcroft and the Bushies, who gave one vague order after another that they wanted confessions and they wanted them quickly, with a wink and a nod about what kind of methods to use. So you have these frustrated high school drop-outs presiding over these people thousands of miles from anywhere, and they won't confess. So, beatings and humiliations follow. And when the crap comes out, the Bush administration passes a bill that absolves all higher-ups from any responsibility and they start to bust the enlisted men and women, who were following orders. Pathetic. Of course, we also find out that over 95% of the prisoners being held, were captured by Pakistanis and Northern Alliance people, WHO were paid by the US government for each person they turned over, guilty or not guilty. And you wonder why meaningful confessions were so hard to come by. It reminds me of the scene from Full Metal Jacket, where the psycho army guy shoots the Vietnamese farmers from his helicopter. He says the ones that run are VC, the ones that don't run are well trained VC. Very tragic.