Taxi to the Dark Side

Taxi to the Dark Side

  • Director: Alex Gibney
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: January 23, 2009
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Таксі на темну сторону
  • "Taxi to the Dark Side" is a 106-minute war documentary released by Thought Pictures. The film was directed by Alex Gibbney and was released in the United States on January 18, 2008.
    The film tells the story of an Afghan taxi driver who died in a US military prison, and explores the issue of prisoner abuse by the US military   .

    Details

    • Release date January 23, 2009
    • Filming locations Yakubi, Afghanistan
    • Production companies Discovery Channel, Jigsaw Productions, Tall Woods

    Box office

    Budget

    $1,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $274,661

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $10,930

    Gross worldwide

    $294,309

    Movie reviews

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    • By Nyasia 2022-10-05 21:59:10

      ¿ Star Spangled Banner?

      Recently, HBO is always broadcasting, so I patiently watched it again.
      This documentary reminds me of two other American movies
      A Few Good Men in 1992 and Nanking this year.
      If Star Wars 30 years ago had a big vision for the technology in the next few centuries, then A Few Good Men Maybe it's more like a demon mirror, accurately predicting the catastrophe that will also happen in guantanamo bay more than ten years later.
      Col. Nathan Jesse, played by Jack Nicholson, seems to...

    • By Sigurd 2022-10-05 14:54:04

      A faith of hope

      I don't have the knowledge to question the authenticity of this documentary and I definitely disagree what the US government did around the world in the name of the so-called "liberation" and "anti-terrorism".

      But at least the making of this movie gives me a faith of hope, that this country is still one of the best, simply because the government would have no authority to stop people from making this sort of movies, to disclose the dark side of the government, to expose the hypocrisy...

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    • By Tremayne 2023-09-28 16:30:14

      @2008-10-25...

    • By Collin 2023-09-27 23:48:17

      The world is repeating...

    • By Obie 2023-09-21 14:41:50

      Some people say that if this kind of film can be made, it means that the old beauty is still better than us. I don't understand why you talk to them like that. Wouldn't it change the blame for a country at their level of economic civilization doing such a thing? What the old man said was very true. Bush, Cheney, Down, they dare not go abroad. Go to another country and be convicted of war and crimes against...

    • By Hadley 2023-09-14 18:16:43

      The saddest thing is that in the end these poorest people always become victims behind politics. Either "terrorists" or American soldiers are nothing but dust on the chessboard of interest...

    • By Seamus 2023-08-26 04:14:48

      Best Documentary at the 80th Academy Awards. The U.S. government and military refer to these American soldiers who abused Afghan prisoners as "bad apples." Our party calls such people "black sheep". There is no government in the world that can completely eliminate ugliness, the question is how they deal with them, and whether the ugliness gets the punishment it deserves. In the United States, someone dared to make such a documentary to criticize the Bush administration, which also reflects the...

    Background creation

    Director Alex Gibbney made the film because he hopes to work hard to change the United States and get rid of the dark side of society   . The film takes the death of Afghan taxi dirawa as the core of the story, exposing the serious crimes committed by the United States in Afghanistan. In addition, the US government's policy on torture and interrogation-especially the use of penalties by the CIA and their The experiment of sensory...
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    Movie quotes

    • Scott Horton - President of the International League for Human Rights: It's very clear that it starts in the office of Vice President Cheney. He had a very strong view that we were not as aggressive and dealing with people in interrogation as we could or should be.

    • George W. Bush: More than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Many others have met a different fate. Lets put it this way: They're no longer a problem to the Unites States or our friends and allies.

    • Dick Cheney: It is a mean, nasty, dangerous, dirty business out there, and we have to operate in that arena...