Taxi to the Dark Side
| Taxi to the Dark Side | |
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| Directed by | Alex Gibney |
| Written by | Alex Gibney |
| Produced by | Alex Gibney Eva Orner Susannah Shipman |
| Edited by | Sloane Klevin |
| Music by | Ivor Guest Robert Logan |
| Distributed by | THINKFilm |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Taxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Alex Gibney, and produced by Gibney, Eva Orner, and Susannah Shipman. It won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It focuses on the December 2002 killing of an Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar, who was beaten to death by American soldiers while being held in extrajudicial detention and interrogated at a black site at Bagram air base.
It was part of the Why Democracy? documentary film series produced by The Why Foundation. The series consisted of ten documentary films from around the world questioning and examining contemporary democracy. As part of this series, the documentary was broadcast in over 30 countries from October 8–18, 2007. The BBC showed the film in its Storyville series.