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Taxi to the Dark Side

  • 2007
  • R
  • 1h 46m
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Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
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Alex Gibney exposes the haunting details of the USA's torture and interrogation practices during the War in Afghanistan.Alex Gibney exposes the haunting details of the USA's torture and interrogation practices during the War in Afghanistan.Alex Gibney exposes the haunting details of the USA's torture and interrogation practices during the War in Afghanistan.

  • Director
    • Alex Gibney
  • Writer
    • Alex Gibney
  • Stars
    • Alex Gibney
    • Brian Keith Allen
    • Moazzam Begg
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    • Director
      • Alex Gibney
    • Writer
      • Alex Gibney
    • Stars
      • Alex Gibney
      • Brian Keith Allen
      • Moazzam Begg
    • 64User reviews
    • 53Critic reviews
    • 82Metascore
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    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 11 wins & 4 nominations total

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    Alex Gibney
    Alex Gibney
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    Brian Keith Allen
    Brian Keith Allen
    • Soldier - New York Studio Shoot Reenactment
    Moazzam Begg
    • Self - Torture Victim
    • (as Moazzam Beg)
    Christopher Beiring
    • Self - Captain
    Willie Brand
    • Self - Military Police
    George W. Bush
    George W. Bush
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Jack Cafferty
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Brian Cammack
    • Self - Military Police
    William Cassara
    • Self - Attorney
    Doug Cassel
    • Self - Professor
    Dick Cheney
    Dick Cheney
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Jack Cloonan
    Jack Cloonan
    • Self - Former FBI Agent
    Damien Corsetti
    • Self - Military Interrogator
    Thomas Curtis
    • Self - Sergeant: Military Police
    Greg D'Agostino
    Greg D'Agostino
    • Soldier - New York studio shoot reenactment
    Ken Davis
    • Self - US Army Sgt.
    Lynndie England
    Lynndie England
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Tommy Franks
    Tommy Franks
    • Self - General
    • (archive footage)
    • Director
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      • Alex Gibney
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    • Quotes

      Damien Corsetti - Military Interrogator: You put people into a crazy situation, people will do crazy things.

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Vantage Point/Diary of the Dead/Charlie Bartlett/Be Kind Rewind/Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)
    • Soundtracks
      In My Little Corner of the World
      Words by Bob Hilliard Music by Lee Pockriss

      Published by Better Half Music (Division of Bourne Co.)

      and Emily Music Corporation

      Performed by Yo La Tengo

      Courtesy of Matador Records

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    9/10
    Pointing out serious problems does not make this film Anti-American
    There is something you need to know about this film: it is not about real insurgents or terrorists or about real soldiers, and it is certainly not an anti-American film.

    It is about how senior military and civilian officials demand results from their subordinates, even if the results are to be obtained by unconscionable, immoral, and illegal means, up to, and including, torture and murder. The fact that many of these results - what the military like to call "the mission" - are faked or just wrong is of no particular concern to them. Naturally, you'll never find a document signed by any of those officials advocating torture and murder. The most you'll ever find is a reference to "enhanced interrogation techniques" (i.e., torture). And if a detainee dies, the senior officers and officials always benefit from "plausible deniability" and claim that it must be the fault of junior "bad apple" troops. If terrorists are murderers, some of our own troops have certainly engaged in murder, too. To reveal this is not anti-American; it's just a simple fact. Because the troops often do it in a group they think they're not murderers. Just as, I imagine, someone who participates in gang rape does not consider himself, individually, to be a rapist.

    While most Military Police (MP) troops are fighting hard on the ground every day in Iraq and Afghanistan, one group of troops which this film examines are those Military Police who are used as prison guards. The other troops examined in the film are some military intelligence ("MI") troops employed as interrogators in prison camps.

    If you don't know already, Military Police are usually despised by their own troops. If you give a soldier special power over his fellow soldiers he will often abuse it. I still recall an Australian friend of mine mentioning that many of the Aussie "Red Hats" (MPs) who sailed for home after WWII never made it back; their fellow troops threw them overboard.

    The old saw about military intelligence being a contradiction in terms is never more apparent than in the case of interrogators. When you hear the word intelligence here you must forget all about spies, codes, and the stuff of James Bond novels. The interrogators of MI are an example of soldiers who are ill prepared, in general, to carry out work that would normally take years to master. They are mostly low-ranking enlisted men and women, privates and sergeants, almost none of whom speak with any proficiency the language of the detainees they're interrogating.

    So, imagine the scenario: senior officials demanding intelligence, no matter how it's obtained; unqualified interrogators using whatever means they can think of to satisfy their superiors' demands; and MP prison guards who have the power of life and death over their detainees, with almost no restrictions on what they can do to them. Behind all this is the unwritten understanding that if something goes wrong, the troops will probably not be prosecuted. God help the innocent person swept up into this sadistic, bureaucratic system. But as we all know, if you've been arrested, you must be guilty. Right?

    The elephant in the closet in all this is the Central Intelligence Agency, an organization that regards itself as above law, morality, and civilized behavior. It gets away with much of what it does by having the military, foreigners, and contractors to do its dirty work for it. And when somebody has to take a fall, well, that's what privates and sergeants are for. If your kids are MPs, interrogators, or just in the military, advise them always to watch their backs around those people.

    This may be a disturbing film for civilians, but it won't include many surprises if you've served in the armed forces, or on a police force, or in a prison. Those are the people who know about this, but they're not about to tell you. No wander the USA has pulled out of the War Crimes Treaty. But what officials do not want to admit, even to themselves, is that war crimes are war crimes, no matter if you're a treaty signatory or not.
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    • Release date
      • January 23, 2009 (Brazil)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Таксі на темну сторону
    • Filming locations
      • Yakubi, Afghanistan
    • Production companies
      • Discovery Channel
      • Jigsaw Productions
      • Tall Woods
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    • Budget
      • $1,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $274,661
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $10,930
      • Jan 20, 2008
    • Gross worldwide
      • $294,309
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 46 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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