Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)
Directed by Alex Gibney
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.
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Nor does it deny that it was used by the US under the double-speak terminology of ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ and as Alex Gibney demonstrated in his 2007 documentary Taxi to the Dark Side, never officially sanctioned but ambiguously endorsed to prevent anybody too important ever being held accountable.
In an article in Salon , documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney -- whose great "Taxi to the Dark Side" (2007) examined U.S. "War on Terror" torture practices in great detail -- wrote that "Zero Dark Thirty" is "reckless" and "indefensible."
The other narrative is from political commentators like The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer (author of the 2008 book The Dark Side, on the legal justifications and possible criminality of the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation techniques), Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney, who made Taxi to the Dark Side, and CNN’s Peter Bergen, who wrote Manhunt: The Ten Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad.
First we got the tragedy - teary documentaries like "Taxi to the Dark Side" and "The Tillman Story."